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System Center Capacity Planner 2006 Overview

Published: April 19, 2005 | Updated: August 17, 2006
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Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2006 helps size and plan deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 by providing you with the tools and guidance to deploy efficiently while planning for the future by allowing for "what-if" analyses in the following ways:

Help to ensure the success of Microsoft Exchange 2003 and MOM 2005 deployments: Plan the correct amount of infrastructure needed for a new application to meet service level goals.

Infrastructure planning and optimization: Plan ahead for IT purchases, to optimize cost.

Proactive performance planning: Helping an organization meet their service level goals consistently, now and in the future.

Performance analysis and predictive reporting: Automatically report performance trends and bottlenecks to manage current and future performance issues.

System Center Capacity Planner 2006 is designed to help you create a system architecture model for deploying a Microsoft server application, such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or MOM 2005. A typical system architecture model consists of the following information:

Topology: Site locations, types of networks, network components, and network characteristics (bandwidth, latency)

Hardware: Server distribution and characteristics, server and network mapping

Software: Server role and service mapping, file and storage device mapping

Usage profiles: Site usage and client usage

After you create a model, you can run a simulation that provides a summary and details about the performance of the application and its supporting components.

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