Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Unleashed

Chapter 38. Capacity Planning

IN THIS CHAPTER:

• System Hardware/Architecture Instance Design
• Planning for Growth
• Monitoring for Growth
• Ongoing System Concerns
• Lessons Learned

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, but the following are representative options:

• Option 1—Predicting capacity needs at the end of the target time frame and deploying ...