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 | Capacity Planner
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 | Objectives:
 | ·         Suggest edge location SCCM Server and SCCM Component Servers.  Edge locations are typically the lowest tier sites.
 | ·         Suggest hardware for SCCM Server and SCCM Component Servers
 | Output:
 | This tool is designed to provide suggestions for site design and hardware specifications for customer enterprises of 200,000 clients or less. If the enterprise you are designing is greater than this, we strongly suggest you contact Microsoft to assist you in designing your implementation. The suggested hardware is neither minimum nor high end, but is close to achieve satisfactory operations.  Since numerous factors influence the specific recommendation of hardware, the suggestive information produced by the tool is not to be misconstrued as the prescriptive solution.  It is highly recommended that the customers pilot the project there by simulating various levels of loading conditions in order to validate the suggested hardware and then proceed with procurement of production hardware.
 | Prerequisites:
 | Please read Planning and Deploying the Server Infrastructure for Configuration Manager 2007
 | How to use the tool:
 | Start with Scenario-Analysis tab to begin entering customer topology data; move to Assumptions tab to select SCCM features; analyze the Site Server options in the Scenario-Analysis tab for each site and finally prepare a printable output.  During the analysis phase, you will be selecting a site, analyzing the options and selecting the best suitable option.
 | Scenario tab:
 | ·         Customer topology information can be entered by opening a wizard like dialog.  Click on “Build Topology”.  Typically the topology information is recorded in an inverted tree like hierarchical structure.  However, for excel, we chose to build a table.  A few identifiers are automatically generated to build the hierarchy recursively.  Fields such as “Tier”, “Location Ref” and “Parent Location Ref” link the tiers and locations with the parents of a locaton.  Location name is an arbitrary optional textual name to identify a location.
 | ·         If you choose to create the topology table without using the wizard, please pay attention to the location linkages.   You need to manually verify the correctness as there is no automated validation for a manually created table.
 | ·         In the case where there are several identical locations at the same tier, there is an easy way to enter that as a group.  Enter the number of identical sites under “Number of Locations like This”.
 | ·         Network link information is important to record especially when there are WAN links.  The tool asks for both location-to-location connectivity link speed and the link that a client machine uses to get onto the network.  Imagine a client RAS’ing into the corporate network in the latter case.
 | ·         The availability of network pipe for management traffic is important.   Set the allowable percentage of the pipe for management traffic.
 | ·         [NAME] whether there is a local administration present at a location.
 | ·         Client count at a location is self explanatory.  “Client reporting to a location” is automatically calculated as the locations are built.
 | ·         The recursive wizard ends automatically when all the location information is entered for all locations.
 | ·         Sample Topologies:  a couple of sample topologies are provided. Click on either to copy.  This is an excellent way to familiarize yourself with the tool.
 | Assumptions tab:
 | ·         This is where you would choose what SCCM features to use and how much.  There are both basic and advanced settings in this sheet.  We recommend you just use the basic settings for the time being.
 | Analysis tab:
 | ·         Analysis is conducted for all locations sequentially starting from the edge locations.
 | ·         Click on “Analyse a Single Location” to pick an individual location.
 | Analysis of Edge Location:
 | ·         You will be presented with potentially six options for an edge location.  The spectrum ranges from having no SCCM server component at all to needing a Primary Site Server.
 | ·         The Columns “Client Link Usage” and “Parent Link Usage” get populated based on the computed traffic loads.  Each cell shows the link usage.  The details/comment field of each cell shows the total traffic and its breakdown by type.
 | ·         At this point Replicated SQL data is assumed to be based on a snap shot occuring nightly, in later versions this will be corrected to reflect actual traffic estimates.
 | ·         The suggested hardware is neither minimum not high-end.
 | Analysis of Middle Tier Sites:
 | ·         Middle tier locations typically are [NAME].  The tool determines if there is a need for separate MP and/or DP boxes.  You will be presented with the suggested hardware for Primary Site Server, MP and DP. Note for MP and DP suggestions we have assumed a worse case scenario that all clients assigned to this location (including those at secondary sites etc) may need to use these resources simulatanously (fault tolerance).