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  • I'm not aware of an Excel sheet that is similar to Exchange. Unlike Exchange, SharePoint has a significant number of variables that are difficult to account for. Most 'sizing' is just based off of experience and a bit of guessing/magic.
    • Vikas Dhingra's avatar
      Vikas Dhingra
      Copper Contributor

      Thank you Trevor Seward jcgonzalezmartin. So we have to use our earlier experience in SP 2013 to do the guesstimates? can I say this? or SP 2016 capacity planning would be different from SP 2013 because of min roles and other architecture changes.

      • Dean_Gross's avatar
        Dean_Gross
        Silver Contributor

        One thing to remember, is that MinRoles will be more efficient that the custom role approach of 2013. So, if everything else was equal, which it never is, a 2016 farm with MinRoles assigned to 4 machines (2 wfe/dist cache and 2 app/search) would perform better that 4 2013 servers with custom services activated on each.

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