Capacity Planning in SharePoint

Capacity planning is most important step to design a proper SharePoint environment

Most important factors while designing a farm

1. Model the Architecture with WFE servers, APP Servers and Database servers. It can be either Small, Medium or Large farm based on the size and data of the Organisation.

2. Identify no of users who are going to use the farm and how frequently they do access the information.Identify concurrent requests of the users.

3. Know the limits and boundaries of the objects(Web apps, Site Collections, Lists, Pages, etc).

4. What are the all services or apps required to develop and where do we need to install them and identify role of each server farm.

5. Identify what are all servers needs to be load balanced and configure load balancing on the WFE servers

6. Procure sufficient hardware to meet the requirements. High speed configuration and enough RAM size.

7. Design a prototype server farm and install all of the components and check the usage and performance of the farm

8. Design an environment similar to production and check for the usage and tolerance of the farm. Calculate peak throughput of the farm. 

9. There are various capacity planning tools available in the market to measure the capacity planning based on the parameters.