Microsoft SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool Released!
System Center Capacity Planner 2007 has shipped. You may have heard about the Exchange Models, but what about two New SharePoint deployment models! (Thanks for those of you who participated in the betas models through this blog.)
- Office SharePoint Server 2007 Capacity Model
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Capacity Model
Why should you care?
These new models can help you get an idea of planning for hardware needs based on:
- Number of Users
- Internet vs. Intranet
- Anonymous vs. Authenticated
- User Profile i.e. heavy, typical, light
This capacity planning model is not designed to replace your architect or consultants, but really designed to help through your planning and deployment in providing basic topology and hardware guidance. If you're building out a proof of concept, or trying to decide how your deployment might be impacted by a merger or other variables this tool may have some high level guidance that would be useful.
This tool can help simplify the hardware acquisition and address some of the early number of server licensing type questions. Note artificial limits have been placed in the tool to limit it at 100,000 users and 3 TB. These are artificial limits that were put in where we recommend MCS or experienced Architects be consulted. Even up to these limits it's recommended to consult with experienced architects and consultants to validate the recommendations from the tool. If you're looking to validate the results in this tool, you may want to consult the HP capacity planning tool.
SharePoint deployments can vary in complexity from one to another so your experience may vary, consider this as an educated guess based on the limited variables available in the tool. We hope you find it useful. Here's some additional information on this tool from the download center.
Overview
The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool is a set of free models of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). The two models use the analysis and simulation features of System Center Capacity Planner 2007 (SCCP) to help you explore suitable IT infrastructure options for your SharePoint deployment, based on the SharePoint usage requirements for your organization that you provide to the tool. It can give you a head start on planning your SharePoint topology by producing a first approximation of the topology your organization needs. Architects, systems integrators, and deployment engineers will find it to be a valuable starting point for further refinements of the topology.
Summary
- Simple installation and setup
- Built-in knowledge of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Built-in knowledge of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- Recommended topology in a Graphical User Interface
- Export topology to Visio and server configuration to Excel
- What if hardware scenarios
Download Capacity Planner 2007
Download SharePoint Capacity Models
If you have any problems please check out the help in the models as well as resources on the System Center Capacity Planner Tech Center as well as the help videos.
Enjoy!
Joel Oleson & Satish Mathew
SharePoint Team & Solution Accelerator Team
Microsoft Corporation
