Capacity planning
At the Microsoft download center, you can download the Forefront Identity Manager Capacity Planning Guide (http://aka.ms/FIMCapacityPlanning). I will not dig deep into capacity planning in this book, but rather make sure your setup is made in a way that allows you to easily make your FIM environment expand to cope with future needs.
If you look at the following table, you'll see that capacity planning is not easy since there is no straight answer to the problem. If I have 10,000 users, how should I plan my FIM environment? There are too many other parameters to look at.
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Design factor |
Considerations |
|---|---|
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Topology |
The distribution of the FIM services among computers on the network. |
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Hardware |
The physical hardware and any virtualized ... |
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