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File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0
13 November 09 07:06 PM | winsrvperf | 0 Comments   
What is “FSCT”? New builds of Microsoft Windows are produced almost every day for internal development and testing. In order to detect performance regressions as soon as possible, those builds have to be evaluated and compared to their predecessors as Read More...
High Speed Networking Deployment Guide Released
20 October 09 05:51 PM | winsrvperf | 0 Comments   
Loyal readers - many of the performance questions we get in the Windows Server Performance team pertain to networking. We've described several networking performance features and applicable scenarios in previous posts and in our tuning guides . We wanted Read More...
Interpreting CPU Utilization for Performance Analysis
06 August 09 09:02 PM | winsrvperf | 3 Comments   
CPU hardware and features are rapidly evolving, and your performance testing and analysis methodologies may need to evolve as well. If you rely on CPU utilization as a crucial performance metric, you could be making some big mistakes interpreting the Read More...
Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2 Released
14 July 09 06:34 PM | winsrvperf | 2 Comments   
With Windows Server 2008 R2 almost at RTM, a new tuning guide has been released. It can be found here . And don't forget the Windows Server 2008 Turning Guide is still availiable and has recently been refreshed for SP2. Windows Server Performance Tea Read More...
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Configuring Windows Server 2008 Power Parameters for Increased Power Efficiency
04 December 08 11:10 PM | winsrvperf | 6 Comments   
Matthew Robben here, I’m a Program Manager on the Windows Server Performance team and my primary responsibility is Windows Server power management. Server power efficiency is a topic of considerable importance – in today’s difficult economy, IT organizations Read More...
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Greater than 64 Logical Processor support on Windows Server 2008 R2
22 November 08 01:19 AM | winsrvperf | 1 Comments   
In the past few weeks, there have been a number of new feature announcements around Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 at PDC and WinHEC conferences. From a Server perspective, Power Management, Virtualization, and Greater than 64 processor support Read More...
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Hyper-V and VHD Performance - Dynamic vs. Fixed
19 September 08 07:08 PM | winsrvperf | 10 Comments   
My name is Tim Litton, I work as a Program Manager within the Microsoft Windows Server team, and my particular area of focus is performance optimization for Hyper-V. With the recent release of Hyper-V, customers are starting to ask us how to configure Read More...
Getting system topology information on Windows
13 September 08 12:16 AM | winsrvperf | 2 Comments   
On Windows Server 2008 and later, applications can programmatically get information about how the underlying hardware components relate to one another. Examples include spatial locality and memory latency. This article describes how developers can get Read More...
Tuning Windows Server 2008 for PHP
25 July 08 07:23 AM | winsrvperf | 3 Comments   
Tom Hawthorn, Karthik Mahesh - Windows Server Performance Team A significant percentage of web sites utilize PHP as a platform for dynamic content. During the development of Windows 2008, Microsoft included improvements that enable PHP to run more efficiently Read More...
Designing Applications for High Performance - Part III
26 June 08 12:44 AM | winsrvperf | 6 Comments   
Rick Vicik - Architect, Windows Server Performance Team The third, and final, part of this series covers I/O Completions and Memory Management techniques. I will go through the different ways to handle I/O completions with some recommendations and optimizations Read More...
Designing Applications for High Performance - Part III
25 June 08 11:57 PM | winsrvperf | 0 Comments   
Rick Vicik - Architect, Windows Server Performance Team The third, and final, part of this series covers I/O Completions and Memory Management techniques. I will go through the different ways to handle I/O completions with some recommendations and optimizations Read More...
Power and Hyper-V are now part of the Windows Server 2008 Tuning Guide!
17 June 08 08:58 PM | winsrvperf | 3 Comments   
The guide has been updated with sections on Power and Hyper-V guidelines and best practices. Check out the updated Tuning Guide and tell us what you think by following the feedback link at the top of the Tuning Guide. We look forward to hearing from you! Read More...
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Designing Applications for High Performance - Part II
21 May 08 02:48 AM | winsrvperf | 1 Comments   
Rick Vicik - Architect, Windows Server Performance Team The second part of this series covers Data Structures and Locks. I will provide general guidance on which data structures to use under certain circumstances and how to use locks without having a Read More...
NT... TTCP! Network Performance Test Tool Available
03 May 08 08:19 PM | winsrvperf | 1 Comments   
NTttcp (Windows port of Berkley's TTCP winsock based test tool) has officially gone live ( http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/network/TCP_tool.mspx ) on Microsoft.com. NTttcp is a useful tool to help measure overall Windows networking performance with Read More...
Designing Applications for High Performance - Part 1
25 April 08 05:40 AM | winsrvperf | 1 Comments   
Rick Vicik - Architect, Windows Server Performance Team Now that processors won’t be getting dramatically faster each year, application developers must learn how to design their applications for scalability and efficiency on multiple processor systems. Read More...
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