Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Chapter 23. Capacity Planning and Performance Monitoring

In this chapter:
Capacity Planning
Performance Monitoring
Summary
Additional Resources

The topics of capacity planning and performance monitoring are presented together because much of the foundation is the same. Performance counters that are used for testing a farm’s capacity are also used to monitor the performance of the farm. In fact, some of the capacity planning metrics will help define the baseline used for performance monitoring. For example, we will show you how to test the capacity of your farm for Web requests using performance counters. We will then use those performance tests results to define the baseline for monitoring those servers for adequate performance. When possible, ...