Updated: 2008-06-12
Performance and capacity planning is the process of mapping your solution design to a farm size and set of hardware that will support your business goals.
Some of the guidance in these articles has been updated for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 (SP1). For a comprehensive list of updates that are included in Service Pack 1, see Downloadable book: Planning and deploying Service Pack 1 for Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a multi-server environment.
The articles in this chapter include:
Plan for performance and capacity (Office SharePoint Server) provides links to the articles in this section.
About performance and capacity planning (Office SharePoint Server) walks you through the process of determining the hardware requirements for a single farm, and provides an overview of the planning process.
Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server) provides a starting point for planning the performance and capacity of your system. This article includes performance and capacity testing results and guidelines for acceptable performance.
Estimate performance and capacity requirements (Office SharePoint Server) provides links to key common usage scenario articles that provide test results and recommendations for specific configurations.
Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environments (Office SharePoint Server) addresses test results and recommendations specific to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 collaboration environments.
Estimate performance and capacity requirements for portal collaboration environments addresses test results and recommendations specific to Office SharePoint Server 2007 portal collaboration environments.
Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments addresses test results and recommendations specific to Office SharePoint Server 2007 environments in which the Search service is a principal feature.
Determine resource requirements to support Excel Services addresses test results and recommendations specific to Office SharePoint Server 2007 environments in which Excel Services is a principal feature.
Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Internet environments (Office SharePoint Server) addresses test results and recommendations specific to Office SharePoint Server 2007 Internet environments.
Physical topology recommendations (Office SharePoint Server) provides information about how the topology of your system’s database tier, and your network, physical storage, and caching can significantly affect system performance. Use this article to help plan your physical topology.
Physical storage recommendations (Office SharePoint Server) provides information about how the disks and arrays you choose — and how you place data on those disks and arrays — can significantly affect system performance. Use this article to help plan the details of your physical storage.
Tune Web server performance (Office SharePoint Server) provides information about how to enhance the performance of your Web servers.
Caching in Office SharePoint Server 2007 describes the different types of caching available in Office SharePoint Server 2007, and how to optimize caching for your specific deployment requirements.
Additional performance and capacity planning factors (Office SharePoint Server) provides information about additional factors such as network, custom code and environmental considerations.
Tools for performance and capacity planning (Office SharePoint Server) provides information about tools you can use to perform performance and capacity testing in your own environment.
White paper: Working with large lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007 presents the findings of a Microsoft test against Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that determined the performance characteristics of large SharePoint lists under different loads and modes of operation.
Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for Office SharePoint Server: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices (white paper) presents key recommendations and best practices to help administrators of Office SharePoint Server 2007 to plan and monitor their SQL Server storage requirements to support optimal performance and operation of their server farms.
Case Study: Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to implement a large-scale content storage scenario with rapid search availability presents the key decision points, architecture design and definition, and test criteria and results from a scalability and performance test. It is intended to provide strategic information about designing a high-volume, high-availability enterprise solution that can easily grow.