Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Spend time performing capacity analysis to save time troubleshooting and firefighting.

• Use capacity-analysis processes to help weed out the unknowns.

• Establish systemwide policies and procedures to begin to proactively manage your system.

• After establishing systemwide policies and procedures, start characterizing system workloads.

• Use performance metrics and other variables such as workload characterization, vendor requirements or recommendations, industry-recognized benchmarks, and the data that you collect to establish a baseline.

• Use the benchmark results only as a guideline or starting point.

• Use the Task Manager or the Resource Monitor in Performance Monitor ...