VMS Capacity Planning Worksheet

One-page printable worksheet for sizing a surveillance system end to end: the eight-step method with every formula filled in — per-camera load (bitrate, GB/day, switch port, decode share), recording-server sizing by sustained write throughput (MB/s) not camera count, the two storage budgets (capacity = retention TB x 1.4-1.6 provisioning; throughput = write MB/s x RAID penalty), the network and PoE budget (+20-30%), the client-decode budget (substreams + hardware decode), and the headroom-and-re