Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Administrator's Companion
by Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia, Burzin Patel, Stacia Misner, Victor Isakov
Using MOM for Capacity Planning
The Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) product can also provide useful information for capacity planning and sizing. MOM stores perfmon data for long periods of time so that it can be analyzed and used for purposes such as tuning, sizing, and capacity planning. You can configure both the amount of data that MOM collects and the duration for which it stores the data.
It is desirable to keep this kind of data as long as possible, but keeping it indefinitely is impractical. Determine which metrics are important for you, and configure MOM appropriately. By saving data such as CPU utilization, user counts, and I/O utilization for a significant amount of time, you can extrapolate future usage. MOM can also be used to validate ...
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