Updated: 2009-04-16

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.

The articles in this chapter include:

• Plan for performance and capacity (Windows SharePoint Services) provides links to the articles in this section.

• About performance and capacity planning (Windows SharePoint Services) 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 (Windows SharePoint Services) 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 (Windows SharePoint Services) provides links to key common usage scenario articles that provide test results and recommendations for specific configurations.

  • Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environments addresses test results and recommendations specific to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments.

• Additional performance and capacity planning factors (Windows SharePoint Services) provides information about additional factors such as caching and environmental considerations.

• Tools for performance and capacity planning (Windows SharePoint Services) provides information about tools you can use to perform performance and capacity testing in your own environment.

Intel performed performance testing against Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to determine how performance characteristics changed between the 64-bit dual-core Intel Xeon X5150 and quad-core Intel Xeon X5355 processors. This white paper presents their findings.

• White paper: Intel Performance Testing of Windows SharePoint Services presents the findings of Intel performance testing against Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to determine how performance characteristics changed between the 64-bit dual-core Intel Xeon X5150 and quad-core Intel Xeon X5355 processors.

• Advantages of 64-bit hardware and software (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) describes the many advantages of using 64-bit hardware and software when setting up Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 servers.

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