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Capacity planning informs decisions about hardware to purchase and system configurations that optimize your solution. Individual SharePoint Server 2013 farms are unique, and each farm has different requirements that depend on hardware, user behavior, the configuration of installed features, and many other factors.
This article contains guidance on performance and capacity planning for an enterprise intranet collaboration solution that is based on SharePoint Server 2013. It includes the following: Lab environment specifications, such as hardware, farm topology and configuration The test farm workload and dataset that was used to generate test load
How to scale out a SharePoint Server 2013?
This article provides guidance about how to scale out servers in a SharePoint Server 2013 enterprise intranet collaboration solution. Capacity planning informs decisions about hardware to purchase and system configurations that optimize your solution.
How to plan a SharePoint Server 2013 deployment?
Modeling your SharePoint Server 2013-based environment begins with analyzing your existing solutions and estimating the expected demand and targets for the deployment you are planning to set up.
How to estimate database server performance and capacity?
Because this lab environment did not have an active search crawl running, the database server was kept at approximately 50% CPU utilization or lower to reserve 10% for the search crawl load. This assumes SQL Server Resource Governor is used in production to limit Search crawl load to 10% CPU. Failure rate is less than 0.01%.
How to plan the launch of a portal?
To help in creating a successful portal, follow the basic principles, practices, and recommendations detailed in the Creating, launching, and maintaining a healthy portal The deployment approach is highlighted below. Use the portal launch scheduler to release your portal to users in your organization in scheduled phases.