Additional Resources for Performance Tuning Guidelines

Use the links in this topic to learn more about the concepts that were discussed in Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 R2.

Websites

• Windows Server 2012 R2

• Windows Server Performance Team Blog

• Windows Server Catalog

• SAP Global Benchmark: Sales and Distribution (SD)

• Windows Sysinternals

• Transaction Processing Performance Council

• Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit

Power Management

• Power Policy Configuration and Deployment in Windows

• Using PowerCfg to Evaluate System Energy Efficiency

• Interrupt-Affinity Policy Tool

• Processor Power Management (PPM) Tuning for the Windows Server Balanced Power Plan

Networking Subsystem

• Scalable Networking: Eliminating the Receive Processing Bottleneck—Introducing RSS

• Windows Filtering Platform

• Networking Deployment Guide: Deploying High-Speed Networking Features

• NT Testing TCP Tool (NTTTCP) 3.0

• Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT)

• File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT)

• Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Teaming (LBFO) Deployment and Management

Network Workload

• Ttcp

• How to Use NTttcp to Test Network Performance

Storage Subsystem

• Disk Subsystem Performance Analysis for Windows

  Note  

  Parts of this document are out of date, but many of the general observations and guidelines are still accurate.

   

Web Servers

• 10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications

File Servers

• Performance Tuning Guidelines for Microsoft Services for Network File System

• [MS-FSSO]: File Access Services System Overview

• How to disable the TCP autotuning diagnostic tool

Active Directory Servers

• Active Directory Performance for 64-bit Versions of Windows Server 2003

• How to configure Active Directory diagnostic event logging in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows 2000 Server

Virtualization Servers

• Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Configuration Guide

• NUMA Node Balancing

• Hyper-V WMI Provider

• Hyper-V WMI Classes

• What’s New in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2

• About Virtual Machines and Guest Operating Systems

• Optimizing and Troubleshooting Hyper-V Storage

• Optimizing and Troubleshooting Hyper-V Networking

Print Servers

• Print Server Scalability and Capacity Planning

Sales and Distribution Two-Tier Workload and TPC-E Workload

• Setting Server Configuration Options

• How to: Configure SQL Server to Use Soft-NUMA

• How to: Map TCP/IP Ports to NUMA Nodes

• ALTER SERVER CONFIGURATION (Transact-SQL)

• SAP with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005: Best Practices for High Availability, Maximum Performance, and Scalability

• SAP Hyper-V benchmark

Server Tuning Tools

• Microsoft Server Performance Advisor

 

 

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