Task 2: Determine Configuration and Content Storage Requirements

Although IIS 7.0 server and site configuration may not use a lot of space for storage, content storage needs can be significant. Organizations planning to deploy IIS 7.0 should evaluate storage requirements of all applications in scope for the implementation and plan for growth in the storage needs based on anticipated business growth.

Storage performance is also important for achieving the best possible performance for Web applications. Servers will cache static content in RAM, dramatically improving performance, but there are limits to the amount of content that can be cached. The performance of the storage infrastructure will be the gating factor in uncached performance.

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