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Hyper-V and VHD Performance - Dynamic vs. Fixed
19 September 08 07:08 PM | winsrvperf | 5 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 | 1 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 | 4 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 | 0 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...
Networking Adapter Performance Guidelines
18 March 08 07:46 AM | winsrvperf | 1 Comments   
Networking performance has increasingly become one of the most important factors in overall system performance. Many of the factors that affect networking performance fall under the following three categories: Network adapter hardware and driver performance, Read More...
Windows Server 2008 - Scalability and Performance Presentation
07 March 08 12:16 AM | winsrvperf | 0 Comments   
Hi all, I thought I’d forward around a link to the WS08 performance presentation we did for the Server 2008 launch. We cover a number of the areas/roles of the product and provide comparisons against Server 2003 – have a look ! Cheers, Bill Karagounis Read More...
Windows Server 2008 Launch Presentation - Scalability and Performance
07 March 08 12:10 AM | winsrvperf | 0 Comments   
You can find the WS08 Presentation here Read More...
Hyper-V and Multiprocessor VMs
29 February 08 01:43 AM | winsrvperf | 5 Comments   
Thanks for visiting our blog! I’m a development lead in the Windows Server Performance team and I led the performance effort on Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 over the past three and a half years. We’ve worked with the product team throughout the Hyper-V Read More...
Welcome!
07 February 08 05:54 PM | winsrvperf | 0 Comments   
Welcome to the Microsoft Windows Server Performance team blog! As the Group Program Manager for the team, I’m delighted to introduce the team and provide the first post to kick off the blog. The Windows Server Performance team is a part of the Core Operating Read More...
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