Planning for Performance and Scalability in System Center 2012 - Service Manager

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Service Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager, System Center 2012 - Service Manager

This section describes general performance and scalability planning guidance for System Center 2012 – Service Manager. While Service Manager is built to meet a performance standard on minimum recommended hardware, the hardware requirements for your specific scenario may be higher or lower than the generalized guidelines presented here. This section also describes considerations for Service Manager software.

Service Manager is a three-tiered application, consisting of a database, a data access module, and a console:

• Every Service Manager deployment topology—from the largest to smallest—includes all three tiers, whether physically or virtually.

• The smallest deployment topology that is supported requires two servers, either physical servers or virtual servers. The largest deployment topology contains more than four servers.

• The servers host the Service Manager console and Service Manager database on the management server. The data warehouse management server hosts the Service Manager data warehouse.

The Service Manager Sizing Helper tool can help you size the hardware and software pieces that you will deploy using the details in this guide. The tool is included in the Service Manager job aids documentation set (SM_job_aids.zip).

Specifically, the sizing tool:

1. Helps to give you an idea of the type of hardware, such as individual computers, CPUs, free and used hard drive space, and RAID level, that is needed for different usage and deployment scenarios. Usage is indicated by the number of configuration items in the Service Manager database, work items per month, and days of data in the data warehouse.

2. Provides topology diagrams for each scenario. The diagrams map the hardware to scenarios such as single-physical-server, two-server, four-server, and more-than-four-server scenarios.

3. Helps you calculate free and used hard drive space that is necessary for a scenario, based on your input. The calculation is an estimate, not a fixed value that you must meet.

• Hardware Performance

  Contains general guidelines to consider when you are planning for Service Manager hardware performance.

• Service Manager Performance

  Contains general guidelines to consider when you are planning for Service Manager software performance.

• Configurations for Deployment Scenarios

  Describes hardware and software configurations for Service Manager deployment scenarios.

• TechNet Library main page for System Center 2012 – Service Manager

• Planning Guide for System Center 2012 – Service Manager

• Deployment Guide for System Center 2012 – Service Manager

• Administrator’s Guide for System Center 2012 – Service Manager

• Operations Guide for System Center 2012 – Service Manager