Performance and Capacity Management

The idea of performance and capacity management is that you setup your solution according to specifications which will result into specific hardware and farm setup.

Technet has some articles which decribe several elements which are important for performance and capacity management. Keep in mind that defining a system depends not only on SharePoint 2010, but also on your solution. Did you use a lot of customisation? How are you users using the solution? Are you using external data sources? and how are you connected with these data sources? I think you get the picture….

The following articles are available:

• Hardware and software requirements
  This article lists the minimal hardware and software requirements to install and run SharePoint 2010.
• Technical diagrams
  Simply a lot of diagrams describing different setups of SharePoint farms and use of feature sets.
• Technical case studies
  This include information about environments. Think of specifications of hardware, topologies and configuration. But also health and performance data, database content, indexes and external data sources.
• Software boundaries and limits
  This will help you understand performance and capacity limits of the product. Keep in mind that this depends on your solution. The capacity elements which are addressed are boundaries, thresholds and limits.
• Capacity and sizing
  A single whitepaper describing elements to understand targets, data architecture, hardware support versus number of users, monitoring and adjusting your environment.
• Capacity test results and recommendations
  This will include a set of white papers describing the impact of specific feature sets. This will include things like characteristics, test results, recommendations and troubleshooting performance and scalability.