Office 365 Performance Management

Meet Paul Andrew | @pndrw Office 365 Technical Product Manager Office 365 datacenter, networking, identity management Passion for informing and inspiring IT Professionals to create simpler solutions to complex problems Meet Zach Rosenfield SharePoint Online Principal Program Manager Lead Leads the team in SharePoint responsible for storage, capacity, networking and performance functionality

M5: Planning for Office 365 Internet capacity – SharePoint Online

Agenda Bandwidth planning for SharePoint Online Baselining for SharePoint Online Bandwidth Calculator

Bandwidth planning for SharePoint Online

Audience If you are responsible for Internet connections for your company offices and you are… Onboarding to SharePoint Online from SharePoint on-premises Doing a new Office 365 deployment with SharePoint Online Adding users to an existing SharePoint Online deployment Adding SharePoint Online to an existing Office 365 deployment

Why is capacity planning needed for SharePoint Online? With file servers on-premises your users would use high speed Ethernet to access their files With files in the cloud they are using your Internet connection Bandwidth is needed to upload and download files SharePoint Online is very latency tolerant

Overview of SharePoint Online bandwidth usage Web Based File upload and download Small consumer of bandwidth SharePoint Web site usage is small in comparison Company portals Sync client is the main bandwidth user Runs anytime a user edits a file Synchronizes changes from PCs to the cloud OneDrive for Business initial sync traffic

+ What is Sync Traffic? OneDrive Sync LIST.ASMX ITEMS TO SYNC Content DB LIST.ASMX OneDrive for Business Client Sync ITEMS TO SYNC + OneDrive Sync CELLSTORAGE.SVC Content-Type: multipart/related Office Document Cache < 3.5 MB Content-Type: multipart/related

Baselining for SharePoint Online

Base-lining to determine bandwidth requirements Use Netmon to capture traffic and size usage on specific machines Use monitors on Internet gateway routers to measure total bandwidth usage Keep track of Internet capacity headroom over time as a standard infrastructure monitor Use an Office 365 pilot to measure actual usage and create a baseline from that Actual Internet capacity requirement will be previous usage plus expected SharePoint Online usage

Bandwidth Calculator

OneDrive for Business Capacity Planning TOol demo OneDrive for Business Capacity Planning TOol

Calculator Tool Complete the Input tab Complete the Client Mix tab Review the network bandwidth chart Plan for additional bandwidth capacity for the max hourly usage Remember to include 20% headroom Tool Limitations Results are only as good as the input estimates Cannot model usage spikes

M5 Summary: Planning for Office 365 Internet capacity – SharePoint Online Why Internet capacity planning for SharePoint Bandwidth and Latency How does SharePoint Online use bandwidth The Baselining method for capacity planning The Calculator tool method for capacity planning