I just fired up the capacity planning tool that’s all the rage these days.
Eu penso doado de usar e rápido modelado nun ambiente de cliente que eu traballei neste verán pasado.
Con certa aprehensión, Eu apertei o botón Aceptar final, e recomendou algo que é moi semellante ao que demos o noso cliente (we actually threw in a second application server for future excel use). I take that to be a good sign and increases my confidence in the tool.
It seems pretty powerful stuff a much better starting point than a blank page.
I like that lets you get into some good detail about the environment. How many users, how you project they will use the system (publishing, collaboration, etc), branch office and connectivity / network capacity between them and the mama server. Good stuff.
It asks broad based questions and then lets you tweak the details for a pretty granular model of your environment.
I hesitated downloading it because I have so many other things to look at it, read and try to digest. I’m glad I did.
It’s an easy two-step process. Download system center capacity planner and then download the SharePoint models. It runs nicely on Windows XP.
Based on my quick impression, I don’t see how it might account for:
- Procurar: Total documents, maybe types of documents, languages.
- Excel server: how much, a todos?
- Forms server: how much, a todos?
- BDC: how much, a todos.
Those may be modeled and I just didn’t see them in the 10 minute review.
I will definitely use it at my next client.
If I were not a consultant and instead working for a real company :), I’d model my current environment and see how the tool’s recommended model matches up against reality. That would be pretty neat. It could lead to some good infrastructure discussion.
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