The ADSizer is still the 'first shot, best guess' tool for the newer technologist working with AD. Given 3 - 6 mos. of experience with AD, one should be able to determine for themselves what 'Best Practices' for their given environment should be.
The basic problem with the ADSizer, as I see it, is that if you have done the due diligence that is required for the input into the tool, you've already done most of the work that would qualify someone to determine the requirements by experience. That being said, as a tool for Management to justify upgrades with input from the Tech Staff, it's hard to refute a tool from Microsoft that says, "You're systems need to be this big to handle the load that you indicate as likely". Also, I have to stress the need for baselining. If you're not doing baselines of systems, you'll find it difficult in the future to determine what impact a given change has / will have, or when it's time to start 'stumping' for the next hardware upgrade. Also, a good baseline makes troubleshooting significantly easier, as the changes are readily apparent in traffic, memory, LDAP usage, etc. Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Jones Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 11:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] ADSizer Is ADSizer still the best tool to do capacity planning for AD? Or does anyone have an nice Excel spreadsheet that would also be applicable to Windows 2003? TIA -Eric List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
