Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Summary

Capacity planning and performance analysis are critical tasks in ensuring that systems are running efficiently and effectively in the network environment. Too much capacity being allocated to systems indicates resources are being wasted and not used efficiently, which in the long run can cause an organization to overspend in their IT budgets and not get the value out of IT spending. Too little capacity in production systems, and performance suffers in serving users, and this condition also creates a hardship on servers that can ultimately cause system failure.

By properly analyzing the operational functions of a network, a network administrator can consolidate servers or virtualize servers to gain more density in system resources, which ...