Vimtop is a valuable tool that can be used to ensure that your VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) remains as performant as possible. When it's coupled with a monitoring tool such as PerfMon, it's ...

If the Perfmon BLG is larger than expected, first check the number of counters, sample interval, and termination ...

This chapter excerpt on Managing and Monitoring Windows 7 (download PDF) is taken from the book Using Microsoft Windows 7. The Windows 7 advice and troubleshooting tips in this book will help you ...

It's no wonder that so many vendors are always trying to come up with a decent realtime monitoring tool. The MS tool Perfmon is good, but for monitoring a lot of counters, it can get kinda thick. The ...

So I have the dreaded C-level user statement/support request to deal with "Everything is slow". No numbers, qualifiers, time, quantitiave measurements of any kind. So working my way in from the ...

Fortunately, there are several tools built right into the Windows operating system that can assist you. For a quick and dirty analysis of potential bottlenecks, you have the Windows Task Manager. The ...

Vista's "Reliability and Performance" tool has a nice Hard Faults counter. Where can I find that in the normal PerfMon counters so I can graph that with other PerfMon counters? The Memory > Pages ...

What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...