SharePoint Dragons

Early on, in every project, there comes a time when you need to think about the capacity you require and exact farm configuration you want. It’s the time when you need to think about the number of users that will use SharePoint, how they are going to use it, and how much they will use it. Normally for us, this process starts with the SharePoint capacity planning tool. Here are some links that we find useful during the capacity planning phase:

• http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=22876 (It’s for 2007, but you can still get a lot from it)
• http://phani-madhav.blogspot.com/2010/11/sharepoint-2010-capacity-planning-tool.html (HP sizer tool)
• http://tihomirignatov.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharepoint-2010-capacity-planning-and.html
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff601870 (general info)
• http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=332 (some nice references about capacity planning)