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System Center Capacity Planner 2007 - For SharePoint 2007 - For Everyone

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Planning a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) installation or a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) installation for a large enterprise can be a very complex undertaking. Determining the most cost-effective topology, hardware, and bandwidth requirements is not a trivial task and involves selecting from a variety of configuration options. In choosing the option that best fits your organization’s needs, you need to answer the following questions:

  • What is the minimum hardware you need to deploy?
  • Where and how should you deploy the hardware?
  • How can you optimize your deployment to meet your organization’s requirements for availability and performance?
  • How will growing capacity needs affect the topology?

The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool, now available as a free download on the Microsoft Download Center, helps you effectively answer these questions, and helps you balance your organization’s needs for capacity and performance with its need to keep costs under control. This new tool extends Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007 so that you can use Capacity Planner’s analysis and simulation features to plan your WSS or MOSS deployment.

You can use the SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool to help you with business scenarios such as these:

  • I need to determine whether I need 10 servers or 1 server to meet the needs of my large law firm of 1000 users.
  • Should I buy 10 server CALs or 5? I’m not sure where to start.
  • I’m confused by the capacity planning documentation; I want a tool where I could enter a few inputs to get me started.
  • I don’t want to have to hire a consultant to tell me I can handle my small 200-person deployment with a single server, but I can’t determine that from the available product documentation.
  • I’ve used the Hewlett-Packard capacity planning tool and I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do, but I would like a more platform-agnostic view.
  • My deployment is blocked until I can determine what kind of topology would provide my organization with basic high availability.

Available for download from here.