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...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf Date: 02/02/2010

NUMA Node Balancing

For those of you running Hyper-V on NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) based platforms (such as...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf Date: 10/20/2009

Interpreting CPU Utilization for Performance Analysis

CPU hardware and features are rapidly evolving, and your performance testing and analysis...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf Date: 09/19/2008

Getting system topology information on Windows

On Windows Server 2008 and later, applications can programmatically get information about how the...

Author: winsrvperf Date: 09/12/2008

Tuning Windows Server 2008 for PHP

Tom Hawthorn, Karthik Mahesh - Windows Server Performance Team A significant percentage of web sites...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf Date: 04/25/2008

Networking Adapter Performance Guidelines

Networking performance has increasingly become one of the most important factors in overall system...

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf Date: 03/06/2008

Windows Server 2008 Launch Presentation - Scalability and Performance

You can find the WS08 Presentation here

Author: winsrvperf 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...

Author: winsrvperf Date: 02/28/2008

Welcome!

Welcome to the Microsoft Windows Server Performance team blog! As the Group Program Manager for the...

Author: winsrvperf Date: 02/07/2008