Capacity Planning Tool

  • Please give me a link or template I can use to do capacity planning & documenting for the same.

    I have 4 transactional database & i'm doing the capacity planning for it. I own a data model so i can do it for one. Other databases are owned by a company that gives us the data model but i would have a provide the capacity planning.

    Any tool or template would be of great help to plan & document.

    Thanks.

  • Capacity planning is about knowing the trend in growth over time. You need to monitor how the free space in the data files is changing. I log this information hourly to a table, and I have 2 yrs of history at this point, so I can easily look at trends on a graph. If you'd like to see how I do this, you can look at the source code on this article:

    http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SQLExamples/Wiki/View.aspx?title=FileSpaceMon

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  • excellent. this is a good place to start once I move into the production. but, is there any template i can use to justify the capacity planning during the development phase?

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