Appendix D: Server Performance Analyzing and Scaling. Published: February 25, 2008 The following information identifies important monitoring counters used for capacity planning and performance monitoring of a system. These counters are referenced in Step 7: “Design the Farm,” in which the form factor and size of the terminal servers and the TS Web Access server are determined. They are also referenced in Step 9: “Size and Place the Terminal Services Role Services for the Farm,” where the form factor and sizing for each of the Terminal Services role services is determined.
Proper design and sizing of the terminal server and the Terminal Services role services is critical to the effective operation of the environment, particularly since the servers will host a somewhat unusual workload: multiple copies of applications that were likely originally designed to run on client workstations. Over-committing CPU resources can adversely affect all the workloads on the same server, causing significant performance issues for a larger number of users.
Analyzing Storage Performance - Counter of the Week. Introduction The purpose of this article is to provide prescriptive guidance on how to troubleshoot logical and physical disk response times in regards to Windows performance analysis. Start with the following performance counters to analyze disk response times: \LogicalDisk\Avg.
Disk Sec/Read \LogicalDisk\Avg. Disk Sec/Write \LogicalDisk\Disk Bytes/Sec \LogicalDisk\Disk Reads/Sec \LogicalDisk\Disk Writes/Sec \LogicalDisk\Split IO/sec \LogicalDisk\Disk Transfers/sec These counters are generally the first ones to look at because we are looking for the following attributes of the Input/Output profile: Average disk seconds/read and average disk seconds/write (response times): Are the users having to wait for application responses? This article is grouped by symptoms, then by possible causes. Symptoms: Long disk response times and High I/O Applies to: Symptom Details: Long disk response times: A “LogicalDisk\Avg.
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