Capacity Planning Overview

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System Center Capacity Planner 2007 is a software application that is built on Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) capacity planning principles. Capacity Planner is designed to help you evaluate an information technology infrastructure during the planning phase, prior to deployment.

Note

For more information about MOF and other MOF principles, see the MOF Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=55977).

The MOF Process Model identifies the following major development phases to guide you as you plan and deploy your hardware and software infrastructure:

  • Planning the infrastructure
  • Building a proof of concept
  • Deploying the infrastructure
  • Operating the infrastructure

See Also

Concepts

Pre-Deployment Sizing Best Practices

Other Resources

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