To add capacity in your capacity model, you can use the Capacity Planner Hardware Editor and Model Editor to replace or add devices.

To reduce the load on the device by replacing the device

  1. Navigate to the Computer configurations page in Hardware Editor.

  2. Revise the computer configuration by replacing the over-utilized device with one that is faster, has increased throughput, or both.

  3. Navigate to the Site Topology view in Model Editor.

  4. Click the server for which you want to replace the updated device configuration, and then click Edit server hardware configuration.

  5. In the Configuration list, click the server computer configuration that you want to add the updated computer configuration to.

To reduce the load on the device by adding devices of the same type

  1. Navigate to the Computer configurations page in Hardware Editor.

  2. Revise the computer configuration to add more devices of the same type.

  3. Navigate to the Site Topology view in Model Editor.

  4. Click the server that you want to add devices to, and then click Edit server hardware configuration.

  5. In the Configuration list, click the server computer configuration that you want to add the updated computer configuration to.

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