Windows Server Performance Team Blog
Windows Server Operating System Performance information, tools and discussion
A glimpse into Windows Server 8
Hi folks, it has been a while as we continue to be heads down on the performance for Windows Server...
Date: 09/29/2011
Increase VMBus buffer sizes to increase network throughput to guest VMs
Under load, the default buffer size used the by the virtual switch may provide inadequate buffer and...
Date: 02/02/2010
NUMA Node Balancing
For those of you running Hyper-V on NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) based platforms (such as...
Date: 12/10/2009
File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0
What is “FSCT”? New builds of Microsoft Windows are produced almost every day for internal...
Date: 11/13/2009
High Speed Networking Deployment Guide Released
Loyal readers - many of the performance questions we get in the Windows Server Performance team...
Date: 10/20/2009
Interpreting CPU Utilization for Performance Analysis
CPU hardware and features are rapidly evolving, and your performance testing and analysis...
Date: 08/06/2009
Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2 Released
With Windows Server 2008 R2 almost at RTM, a new tuning guide has been released. It can be found...
Date: 07/14/2009
Configuring Windows Server 2008 Power Parameters for Increased Power Efficiency
Matthew Robben here, I’m a Program Manager on the Windows Server Performance team and my primary...
Date: 12/04/2008
Greater than 64 Logical Processor support on Windows Server 2008 R2
In the past few weeks, there have been a number of new feature announcements around Windows 7 and...
Date: 11/21/2008
Hyper-V and VHD Performance - Dynamic vs. Fixed
My name is Tim Litton, I work as a Program Manager within the Microsoft Windows Server team, and my...
Date: 09/19/2008
Getting system topology information on Windows
On Windows Server 2008 and later, applications can programmatically get information about how the...
Date: 09/12/2008
Tuning Windows Server 2008 for PHP
Tom Hawthorn, Karthik Mahesh - Windows Server Performance Team A significant percentage of web sites...
Date: 07/25/2008
Designing Applications for High Performance - Part III
Rick Vicik - Architect, Windows Server Performance Team The third, and final, part of this series...
Date: 06/25/2008
Designing Applications for High Performance - Part III
Rick Vicik - Architect, Windows Server Performance Team The third, and final, part of this series...
Date: 06/25/2008
Power and Hyper-V are now part of the Windows Server 2008 Tuning Guide!
The guide has been updated with sections on Power and Hyper-V guidelines and best practices. Check...
Date: 06/17/2008
Designing Applications for High Performance - Part II
Rick Vicik - Architect, Windows Server Performance Team The second part of this series covers Data...
Date: 05/20/2008
NT... TTCP! Network Performance Test Tool Available
NTttcp (Windows port of Berkley's TTCP winsock based test tool) has officially gone live...
Date: 05/03/2008
Designing Applications for High Performance - Part 1
Rick Vicik - Architect, Windows Server Performance Team Now that processors won’t be getting...
Date: 04/25/2008
Networking Adapter Performance Guidelines
Networking performance has increasingly become one of the most important factors in overall system...
Date: 03/18/2008
Windows Server 2008 - Scalability and Performance Presentation
Hi all, I thought I’d forward around a link to the WS08 performance presentation we did for the...
Date: 03/06/2008
Windows Server 2008 Launch Presentation - Scalability and Performance
You can find the WS08 Presentation here
Date: 03/06/2008
Hyper-V and Multiprocessor VMs
Thanks for visiting our blog! I’m a development lead in the Windows Server Performance team and I...
Date: 02/28/2008
Welcome!
Welcome to the Microsoft Windows Server Performance team blog! As the Group Program Manager for the...
Date: 02/07/2008