Capacity Planning

To download the Commerce Server capacity planning toolkit, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=5165.

Capacity planning is the process of planning for application, hardware, and network requirements to support expected site traffic and to achieve site performance goals. You determine capacity by measuring the number of users to your site, determining how much demand each user places on the server, and then calculating the computing resources (CPU, RAM, disk space, bandwidth and utilization, and network bandwidth) necessary to support current and future usage levels.

To ensure adequate capacity, you must calculate how much computing hardware you need to handle the load that thousands or hundreds of thousands of users can put on your site. These calculations can help you find weak areas that can cause performance degradation. You can resolve weak areas by adding hardware or by redesigning dynamic pages or other CPU-intensive tools.

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