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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New Performance Objects in Windows 8 and Server 2012
By Phil Henninge on October 26, 2012 in Performance engineering, Performance Monitoring, Performance Reporting, Uncategorized
MXG and Performance Sentry for Cost Effective Windows Performance Monitoring
By Phil Henninge on October 24, 2012 in IT Expenses, Performance Monitoring, Performance Reporting, TCO
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 and how, during business downturns, we were charged with reducing support costs by 10 to 20 percent (along with our [...]
Measuring Processor Utilization in Windows and Windows applications
Mark Friedman recently presented his paper at the CMG ’11 International Conference in Washington DC and we have made it available as a White Paper in our download area. You can use this link to retrieve it: Measuring Processor Utilization in Windows “This paper discusses the legacy technique for measuring processor utilization in Windows that [...]
Great to be back!!!
After a 4+ year hiatus while I was working at Microsoft, I am back working at DemandTech Software, the company I started in 1998, as of the beginning of 2011. My name is Mark B. Friedman. I am a professional software developer, author of several popular software products over the years, many of them tools [...]
Server Performance Drives Down IT Costs
Bryce Olson, at The Server Room Blog has written an interesting and detailed post on how server performance can reduce overall IT expenses. In the post he quotes Vernon Turner, the Senior VP of IDC’s Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer and Telecom research group as saying: “I think TCO is top of mind when customers evaluate server [...]
Performance Sentry VM goes GA today
We’re very pleased to announce the General Availability of Performance Sentry VM. The product has been in beta for the past few months and the GA version went live on the site early this morning. To learn more or kick the tires please click the appropriate link. Learn more about Performance Sentry VM Kick the [...]
Setting up a VMware Demonstration Environment on a Laptop
I needed to set up a mobile demo environment to show off our new VMware performance monitor and wanted something that could be hosted on a Windows laptop running ESX Server and a few different Virtual Machines. I started with an HP Pavilion dv7 quad-core Intel i7 running Windows 7 x64 with 8 GB of [...]
Installing Performance Sentry VM on Windows Server 2008
Phil put together this quick video demonstrating the installation steps for installing Performance Sentry VM on Windows Server 2008. At the end of the video he also adds some counters and shows the data in real time using Perfmon. The video is in HD and is easily viewed in full screen mode.
Using Crystal Reports with the Portal to Produce Customized Capacity Planning Reports
A Performance Sentry Portal user emailed support wanting to know how to use Crystal Reports to query the MS-SQL database to generate three basic management reports to illustrate: Average CPU usage in a predefined period (monthly, quarterly, etc.) Average memory usage (PF usage) in a predefined period (monthly, quarterly, etc.) Average disk usage in a [...]
Using a Server Performance Monitor to find Code Problems
By Steve on April 12, 2010 in Performance Monitoring, Performance Reporting, Performance Sentry Portal
If you are reading this blog you already know that server performance monitoring is valuable for a number of reasons, but one thing that you may not have considered is using historical performance data to help to indentify problems introduced to a system by new programming code. A long time Performance Sentry user of ours [...]
Quick Links
From the Blog
- UKCMG 2013 – Mark Friedman’s Presentation from the session “Memory Management in Windows Guest Machines” is now available
- UKCMG 2013 – Visit with our friends at Agileise and attend Mark Friedman’s sessions
- New Performance Objects in Windows 8 and Server 2012
- MXG and Performance Sentry for Cost Effective Windows Performance Monitoring
- Performance Sentry supports Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8