Perspectives on Performance

The Perspectives on Performance section provides a convenient way to stay up-to-date on the latest performance management information and resources:

• Library of Windows performance management articles and presentations

• Presentations from our annual User Group meetings at CMG

• Resources and links

Library of Windows Performance Management Articles and Presentations

• Managing 2000+ Windows/NT Servers in a Wan/LAN Environment (ppt)

• Managing a Large Number of Servers by Exception (pdf)

• Exploiting Web Publishing Technology To Enhance Performance Reporting (ppt)

• Building an MXG PDB from NTSMF Data (ppt)

• Virtual memory constraints in 32-bit Windows: an Update (pdf)

• Virtual memory constraints in 32-bit Windows: an Update (ppt)

• A simplified approach to Windows disk tuning (pdf)

• Virtual memory constraints in 32-bit Windows  (pdf)

• The performance of web services applications in Windows 2000 (pdf)

• An introduction to SAN capacity planning (pdf)

• Multiprocessor scalability in Windows 2000 (pdf)

• Windows NT page replacement policies (pdf)

• Optimizing the performance of Wintel applications (pdf)

Demand Tech User Group Meeting Presentations

CMG2005

• "Virtual machine performance and capacity planning: an update," by Phil Henninge, Senior Developer, Demand Technology Software (ppt)
• "New performance measurements in SQL Server 2005," by Jeff Schwartz, Unisys (ppt)
• "Tales from the Lab: Application stress testing best practices," by Ellen Friedman, SRM Associates (ppt)

CMG2004

• "Introduction," by Mark Friedman, President, Demand Technology Software (ppt)
• "Capacity planning for virtual machines," by Phil Henninge, Senior Developer, Demand Technology Software (ppt)
• "SQL Server performance and optimization," by Jeff Schwartz, Unisys (ppt)
• "Resistance is futile: the Intel x86 Server Platform," by Mike Salsburg, Unisys (ppt)

CMG2003

• "A Primer on Windows Server 2003," by Mark Friedman, VP and GM, Demand Technology Software (ppt)
• "A Longhorn Preview," by Stets Newcomb, Director, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)

CMG2002

• "Introduction," by Mark Friedman, VP, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)
• "Fun with .Net," by Dr. Bernie Domanski, CUNY (ppt)
• "The Thoroughly Modern Mainframe," by Dr. Michael Salsburg, Director of Performance, Unisys (ppt)
• "Consolidated Chargeback for a Consolidated World," Sid Finehirsh, President, The CMX Group  (ppt)
• "AppMetrics – Monitoring for COM+ Components," Scott Matsumoto, CTO, Xtremesoft (ppt)
• "Effective Strategies for SAN Performance Monitoring," David Signori, InRange Technologies (ppt)
• "VIA and InfiniBand: Interconnects for High-Performance Computing," by Dr. Odysseas Pentakalos, SysNet International (ppt)
• "Finding Memory Leaks with NTSMF," by Mark Friedman, VP, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)

CMG2001

• "Performance SeNTry Development status report," by Stets Newcomb, Director, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)
• "Controlling all your NT systems from a single report," by Mark Cohen, DemandTech Italia.
  
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• "Windows XP performance and tuning: an Update," by Mark Friedman, VP, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)
• "NTSMF goes Simalytic," Dr. Tim Norton, Chief Scientist, Simalytic Solutions. (ppt)
  
• "Security considerations for storage networking," Randy Kerns, Evaluator Group (ppt)
  
• "Simplifying & Optimizing The SAN Environment: Virtualization Performance Measurements," Nick Tabellion, Chief Technology Officer, Fujitsu Softek (ppt)
  
• "Complete Event Log Viewing, Monitoring and Management," EngageNT. (ppt)
  
• "hIOmon Overview," Tom West, Founder, HyperIO, LLC. (ppt)
  
  

CMG2000

• "Internet Influence on Server Evolution," John Baudrexl, Technology and Research Labs, Intel Corporation. (ppt)
• "Publishing your PDB under Windows," Jim Quigley, Consolidated Edison. (ppt)
• "New Approaches to Tracking Web Site Performance," Dr. Jim Bouhana, Performance Engineering, Inc. (ppt)
• "Windows NT/2000 Performance and Capacity Key Metrics," Jerry Rosenberg, SRM Associates. (ppt)
• "Windows 2000 performance and tuning: an Update," by Mark Friedman, VP, Engineering, Datacore Software (ppt)
• "Measurement of Web End-to-End Response Time," Mike Tsykin, Systems Engineering Research Center, Fujitsu Australia Limited (ppt)
• "NTSMF Web-Based Reporting Techniques," Jim Quigley, Consolidated Edison.
  
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Resources and Links

• Windows freeware from www.sysinternals.com

• Search MSDN

• Microsoft Windows XP customer support

• ExtremeTech: New in Windows XP

• IBM Redbook on Windows 2000 performance

• Time synchronization in Windows 2000

• Free Open Source Iometer disk benchmarking utility

• hIOmon disk I/O trace utility

• Windows 2000 & .Net Magazine

• Paul Thurrat's supersite

• Windows Script Host

• WSH Bazaar

• Newsletter and tools from Sunbelt Software

• IS Decisions: Windows 2000 utilities

• Windows 2000 utilities from FileBasket