Managing Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Deployments - SharePoint Capacity Planner (
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The SharePoint capacity planner helps IT administrators determine the
minimum hardware necessary to deploy for the number of SharePoint instances
deployed.
"What is the correct topology to meet high availability and performance
requirements? How do I grow my existing installation when my capacity needs
change—this used to be a guessing game," Manoel said.
The tool provides an assessment based on organization-specific data such as
the impact of SharePoint's current state on network, CPU and disk usage to
recommend a topology based on the organization's assets.
The tool then lets administrators run simulations based on different growth
scenarios and the potential needs of main and branch offices based on factors
such as bandwidth requirements, CPU specs and disk configurations.
The ensuing report shows CPU usage, storage capacity and storage I/O.
The final summary output lists how many SQL servers, Web front ends and
index servers would be required for a given scenario. These reports can be
exported to Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Visio, which can surface underlying capacity utilization and latencies.
SharePoint Cross-Site Configurator allows IT administrators to create
deployment scripts enabling deployment of configuration parameters across
collections of sites. This means that they can push out master pages across all
SharePoint sites in an organization and can enforce audit settings across
sites.
The SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit allows IT
administrators to get a holistic view of SharePoint implementations across the
enterprise and interact with remote systems for common management tasks.
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