{"id":8890,"date":"2007-04-13T09:57:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2007-04-13T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"system-center-capacity-planner-2007-beta-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8890","title":{"rendered":"System Center Capacity Planner 2007 Beta Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCCP 2007 is now available on MS <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Connect<\/a> for public beta testing.\u00a0 SCCP offers you the ability to model and simulate loads and scalability for Exchange Server 2007 and Operations Manager 2007.\u00a0 You can also introduce &quot;what if&quot; scenarios, e.g. what happens if a server is removed.<\/p>\n<p>SCCP is the first component you should encounter when adopting Microsoft&#8217;s Dynamic Systems initiative (DSI).\u00a0 DSI is a new approach that uses automation and built in knowledge to support the entire infrastructure lifecycle.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll likely have read or heard about how MOM and SMS fit in to this &#8230; they are key components but ideally, they should come later.<\/p>\n<p>The starting point is modeling.\u00a0 You build a model using a tool that advises you on best practices, scalability and performance.\u00a0 You can introduce scenarios such as growth, redundancy and disaster.\u00a0 Using this model you can architect your infrastructure with predictable results.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, SCCP only support Exchange and OM but we can expect future releases to include other tools.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve seen Excel spreadsheets for modeling AD design so don&#8217;t be surprised to see that taken to the next level.\u00a0 Also, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see Visual Studio (if it already doesn&#8217;t do it) to include a modeling solution for business applications, including web servers, SQL servers, clusters, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Taking you model, you architect and deploy your infrastructure.\u00a0 You then can monitor it using OM 2007 &#8211; it includes a service modeling feature where your business application (consisting of many devices, servers or applications) is considers as a single offering or <em>service<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCCP 2007 is now available on MS Connect for public beta testing.\u00a0 SCCP offers you the ability to model and simulate loads and scalability for Exchange Server 2007 and Operations Manager 2007.\u00a0 You can also introduce &quot;what if&quot; scenarios, e.g. what happens if a server is removed. SCCP is the first component you should encounter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8890\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;System Center Capacity Planner 2007 Beta Available&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}