Microsoft® Office Project Server 2003 Unleashed

Chapter 26. Capacity Planning

IN THIS CHAPTER

• System Hardware/Architecture Instance Design

• Planning for Growth

• Monitoring for Growth

• Ongoing System Concerns

• Federation

• Best Practices

Capacity planning is the act or process of planning for current and future application or system needs. Assumed in the concept of capacity planning is that minimal performance requirements (user perceived and/or system) must be protected. The goal of capacity planning is to achieve these performance requirements throughout the designated planning time frame (often the life span) of the application. Capacity planning can be approached in many ways; the following are representative options:

• Option 1— Examining the expected capacity requirements at the end of the target ...