At the Microsoft download center, you can download the Forefront Identity Manager Capacity Planning Guide (http://bit.ly/MIMCapacityPlanning). We will not dig deep into capacity planning in this book, but make sure your setup is done in a way that allows you to easily make your MIM environment expand to cope with future needs.
If you look at the following table, you'll see that capacity planning is not easy because there is no straight answer to the problem. When we have 10,000 users, how should we plan our MIM environment? There are many parameters to look at:
Design factor |
Considerations |
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Topology |
This is the distribution of MIM services among computers on the network. |
Hardware |
This is the physical hardware and any virtualized hardware specifications that you are running for each MIM component. It includes CPU, memory, network adapter, and hard drive configurations. |
MIM policy configuration objects |
This is the number and type of MIM policy configuration objects... |