Planning for Growth

When choosing hardware for servers, consider future needs and choose servers that can be easily expanded. As the number of users and connectors in a site grows, you can reconfigure the existing hardware rather than add more servers. There are several ways to make the most of existing server hardware for MSMQ:

Increase the amount of system memory for each server.

Upgrade the processors on existing servers or use multiprocessors in existing servers.
Increase the number, speed, and size of the disks or disk arrays.
Add more disk drives to the volume set.
Replace disk drives and volume sets with striped drive arrays.
Limit the number of non-MSMQ software processes on the server by moving them to other computers.

By planning ahead, you can choose hardware that is easily upgraded. If you identify a bottleneck after installation, you can upgrade rather than purchase a new server or change the site layout.