Microsoft System Center Capacity Manager 2006, Express Edition, provides the IT professional with the tools and guidance required to architect a deployment in the most efficient manner, while facilitating future planning by allowing for "what-if" analyses. Microsoft System Center Capacity Manager 2006, Express Edition, enables the IT professional to effectively size an application implementation by:
Collecting organization-specific data about the end-user workload and network environment.
Recommending a topology—a particular configuration of servers, software, and network—using predefined knowledge and dynamic performance modeling. This knowledge is packaged with the tool and can be updated via the hardware vendor with server-specific metrics.
Simulating the load against the proposed architecture to measure its impact on the environment.