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Windows Performance and Capacity Planning Challenges in Virtualized Environments

Mark Friedman, Founder and CTO of Demand Technology Software, recently presented two sessions at the Computer Measurement Group’s imPACt Conference covering Performance Management in the Virtual Data Center.  Mark discussed the current set of Windows performance and capacity planning challenges that arise due to infrastructure virtualization in both large scale on-premises and cloud computing environments. You can view […]

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Defining and Using Machine Groups in the Performance Sentry PDB

Defining and using machine groups are important features of the Performance Sentry Performance Database (PDB).  Machine groups are especially useful in managing the performance data from hundreds or thousands of machines.  Additionally, using machine groups improves charting and reporting performance in the Performance Sentry Portal. “A Guide to Using Machine Groups Effectively in the Performance […]

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Microsoft’s Hyper-V Performance — Introduction

If you are interested in the performance of Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization solution, Mark Friedman, our Founder and CTO,  recently put Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology through its paces, subjecting it to a series of CPU and memory stress tests. These tests are similar to the ones he used to evaluate the performance of VMware ESX  to help […]

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Performance Sentry Cumulative Maintenance Released

Demand Technology Software announced a cumulative maintenance distribution encompassing fixes and enhancements to the Performance Sentry collection service, Performance Sentry Administration, the Performance Sentry Web Portal, and the NTSMF PDB data utilities. It is available immediately for download for both new and existing customers. The Performance Sentry collection service version 4.0.0.15, which is included in […]

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Demand Technology Software Announces v2.4 of the Performance Sentry Web Portal

Cape Coral, Florida, United States – Version 2.4 of the Performance Sentry Web Portal is available today, Demand Technology Software announced. It is available for download for both new and existing customers. The Performance Sentry Web Portal is a web front end to the company’s Microsoft SQL Server-based Performance Database (PDB), which can be configured […]

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Performance Sentry Collection Service Uninstall Problem on x64 Machines.

It has been brought to our attention that there is a problem in certain circumstances where attempting to ‘Uninstall’ or ‘Remove’ the Performance Sentry Collection Service results in an error message of “An error occurred while trying to remove Performance Sentry Collection Service.  It may have already been uninstalled.  Would you like to remove Performance […]

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Performance Sentry supports Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1

We are happy to announce that Performance Sentry and the Performance Sentry Portal have been installed on and tested under Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview and Windows 8.1 Preview. Interestingly (not surprising), Microsoft has given these previews an internal version of Windows 6.3.  With regards to discovering the internal version number, Microsoft has introduced a new […]

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New Performance Objects in Windows 8 and Server 2012

Windows 8 and Server 2012 now Generally Available OK, now that all the hoopla of introducing Windows 8 is over, we can now get down to business.  As I wrote in another entry, we at Demand Technology Software, have revised our software installation to work with both Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.  As part […]

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MXG and Performance Sentry for Cost Effective Windows Performance Monitoring

I was thinking today about the current economy and how our customers are running with minimal staff and minimal budgets. My mind wandered back to my previous career as a performance analyst/capacity planner with a Fortune 500 manufacturer Aloe my holds. While this product lashes http://www.knrflatrock.co.za/niss/winter-sport-safety-tips you front legs me with product college football picks […]

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Performance Sentry supports Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8

We are happy to announce that Performance Sentry supports Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. We had to tweak our installation a bit to use Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) as our previous use of pkgmgr is no longer supported. After understanding the nuances of the new Metro interface and IIS 8.0, we are […]

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