Capacity Planning Tool updates 43rd Edition

This site contains the latest updates of the Capacity Planning Tool and summary of vendor published SPEC hardware platform benchmarks. You need Microsoft® Office® 2010 or higher to use the Capacity Planning Tool (Excel® 2016 is the current CPT development platform). QuickTime® media player is needed to view the videos.

It is recommended that users complete the System Architecture Design Strategies training before using the Capacity Planning tool.

September 2018 Capacity Planning Tool file download

 * Arc18CapacityPlanning0901.xlsx


 * SADS CPT

The September CPT release allows you to configure virtual hardware solutions without having to link the virtual platform tier to the host platform tier. Virtual tier are automatically linked to the assigned host platform.

The Arc18CapacityPlanning0901 release includes the following updates.

Calculator tab Design tab
 * Virtual server configurations automatically use host platform selection.
 * Virtual server configurations automatically use host platform selection.

Arc18CapacityPlanning0901 was development using Microsoft® Excel® 2016 platform, maintaining functional capability with Office 2010 and 2013.

Hardware SPEC platform performance file download

 * HardwareSPEC.xlsx


 * Hardware vendor platform performance updates are published on SPEC.
 * The HardwareSPEC workbook includes a download of published SPEC vendor benchmarks and Amazon EC2 virtual machines (AMI) for your use in capacity planning.
 * Performance benchmark download date is identified on the workbook tab.
 * HardwareSPEC workbook includes SPECrate_int2006 and SPECrate_int2017 benchmarks.

July 2018 Capacity Planning Tool file download

 * Arc18CapacityPlanning0701.xlsx

The Arc18CapacityPlanning0701 release includes the following updates.

WFBaseline tab Hardware tab PCCalc tab Calculator tab Workflow tab Design tab
 * Update workflow service times to support Arc18 baseline
 * Update to Arc18 performance baseline
 * Update model to support Arc18 baseline
 * Move PC Calculator from Workflow tab to PCCalc tab
 * Rework model for more accurate sizing
 * Update model to support Arc18 baseline
 * Update standard workflow service times to support Arc18 baseline
 * Include Wkstn$ Pro FSvc 2D 20%Dyn standard workflow
 * Include Wkstn$ Pro FSvc 3D 20%Dyn standard workflow
 * Update model to support Arc18 baseline

Arc18CapacityPlanning0701 CPT was development using Microsoft® Excel® 2016 platform, maintaining functional capability with Office 2010 and 2013.

March 2018 Capacity Planning Tool file download

 * Arc17CapacityPlanning0301.xlsx

The Arc17CapacityPlanning0301 release includes the following updates.

" Best Practice: Arc17CapacityPlanning1201 or later release should be used for Cloud platform capacity planning. "
 * HWPricing tab
 * Include pricing for 2018 platforms
 * Hardware tab
 * Include 2017 and 2018 Project Platform Candidates
 * Upgrade Azure generic VM platform performance
 * Calculator tab
 * Reduce virtual hypervisor overhead to 35 percent.
 * Adjust %DataCache to generate AGD Wkstn$ FSvc loads
 * Azure platform performance throughput lookup from hardware tab
 * Design Tab
 * Reduce virtual hypervisor overhead to 35 percent.
 * Azure platform performance throughput lookup from hardware tab
 * WFBaseline Tab
 * Add AGD wkstn$ FSvc baseline workflow

Capacity Planning Tool instructional videos
Several CPT Demos provided during the System Architecture Design Strategies (SADS) training class are shared below. These videos demonstrate performance and scalability best practices shared throughout the System Design Strategies wiki chapters. The demos also share how to use the CPT for completing your system architecture design analysis.

The SADS training class demos are updated throughout the year to keep pace with technology changes.

September 2018 Arc18CapacityPlanning0901 demos

 * Chapter 1: System Design Process demo
 * Chapter 2: GIS Software Technology demo
 * Chapter 3: Software Performance demo
 * Chapter 4: Server Software Performance demo
 * Chapter 5: GIS Data Administration demo
 * Chapter 6: Network Communications demo
 * Chapter 7: Platform Performance demo
 * Chapter 9: GIS Product Architecture
 * 09.1 CPT Calculator architecture demo
 * 09.2.1 CPT Design traditional architecture demo
 * 09.2.2 CPT Design ArcGIS Enterprise IOC architecture (ArcMap editors) demo
 * 09.2.3 CPT Design ArcGIS Enterprise IOC architecture (ArcGIS Pro editors) demo
 * 09.3 CPT ArcGIS Server Role architecture demo

October 2017 Arc17CapacityPlanning1001 Chapter 10 demos
The October 2017 Arc17CapacityPlanning1001 CPT introduced new Xeon Gold 2017 Intel platforms.
 * Chapter 10: Performance Management demos
 * 10.1 CPT Calculator and Design productivity adjustment capabilities demo
 * 10.2 CPT platform performance demo
 * 10.3 CPT Test performance validation demo

City of Rome Arc17CapacityPlanning0701 Chapter 11 demos

 * Updated Arc18CapacityPlanning0701 City of Rome case study provided with the Planning for Building a GIS 2018 UC Preconference videos

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