Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj248719.aspx

This guide describes important tuning parameters and settings that you can adjust to improve the performance and energy efficiency of the Windows Server 2012 operating system. It describes each setting and its potential effect to help you make an informed decision about its relevance to your system, workload, and performance goals.

The guide is for information technology (IT) professionals and system administrators who need to tune the performance of a server that is running Windows Server 2012.

Included in this white paper:

• Choosing and Tuning Server Hardware
• Performance Tuning for the Networking Subsystem
• Performance Tools for Network Workloads
• Performance Tuning for the Storage Subsystem
• Performance Tuning for Web Servers
• Performance Tuning for File Servers
• Performance Tuning for a File Server Workload (FSCT)
• Performance Counters for SMB 3.0
• Performance Tuning for File Server Workload (SPECsfs2008)
• Performance Tuning for Active Directory Servers
• Performance Tuning for Remote Desktop Session Host (Formerly Terminal Server)
• Performance Tuning for Remote Desktop Virtualization Host
• Performance Tuning for Remote Desktop Gateway
• Performance Tuning Remote Desktop Services Workload for Knowledge Workers
• Performance Tuning for Virtualization Servers
• Performance Tuning for SAP Sales and Distribution
• Performance Tuning for OLTP Workloads