Performance

Performance Baselining in vSphere: What to Measure and When to Act

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“The VMs are slow” is the most common call I get about VMware environments, and it’s almost never useful information on its own. What I need to know — and rarely have if nobody’s been tracking it — is what “slow” means relative to baseline. Performance baselining is the practice of capturing normal behavior metrics … Read more

Exchange 2013 Performance Monitoring: What to Watch and When to Worry

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Exchange 2013’s new Information Store architecture — where each database runs in its own worker process (Microsoft.Exchange.Store.Worker.exe) — changes what you monitor compared to Exchange 2010. Problems are more isolated, which is good, but your monitoring approach needs to account for per-database process tracking rather than a single monolithic store. The Counters That Actually Matter … Read more