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win32_processor and cim_processor CurrentClockSpeed shows lower value than actual processor speed

Was looking at an issue today where a whole bunch of our servers were showing clock speeds that didn’t match the max clock speed.  These servers were showing up on our exBPA reports and thus landed in my lap to investigate.  At first I assumed Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 8:50 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 0 Comments

Hey Admins! Taking some of the pain out of analyzing perfmon captures.

Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool Project Description: Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:03 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 1 Comments

Some docs to help get you ready for Windows 2008.

Yes you are going to want Windows 2008 in your shop.  We've been running 2k8 for over two year sin production and I'm very proud of the product we're shipping shortly.  Some of you will want to start thinking about what's new in the OS, what Read More...

Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 10:23 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 0 Comments

Does my CPU support hardware virtualization (Hyper-V)

As the talk about hardware virtualization heats up from Microsoft and others you might find yourself wondering if the current hardware you're running supports it. My HP xw9300 workstation doesn't (older AMD Opterons), but it looks like my xw8400 does Read More...

Posted Saturday, January 26, 2008 5:37 AM by Brad Rutkowski | 7 Comments