System Center Capacity Planner 2006

In the IT Infrastructure world of today you need to know which impacts and which requirements you need to have in order to be able to do a successful deployment. MS released at beginning of 2006 a small Capacity Planner tool that should allow IT Designers to identify the needs as also the possible impact on a productive environment. Unfortunately the first release of the Capacity Planner 2006 only covers Exchange 2003 and MOM 2005 environments, for other Applications you will need to estimate the needed resources and impact on a productive environment based on the experiences that you have done on a Lab. It would be great to see soon other System Center members included in the Capacity Planner tool (specially SMS).

Anyway, for Exchange 2003 and MOM 2005 the Capacity Planner tool is a great solution to get nice reports with possible bottlenecks, performance impacts and needed infrastructure to define a correct Budget. You can design different environments and get the possible workloads at each level.

It's important to note that SCCP 2006 is designed to only model a single Exchange organization, it's focused on Exchange 2003 SP1 and it model a traditional hub and spoke Network design. Other components that SCCP does not model are Windows Mailbox Clusters, Outlook Mobile Access, Active Sync, Public Folders, RPC over HTTP, Pop and IMAPI Clients and NAS or iSCSI storage technologies.

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