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64 Bit Processors

Performance Sentry Collection Service Uninstall Problem on x64 Machines. - Comments (0)
I’m unable to push a new Data Collection Set (DCS) to a 64 Bit Machine - Comments (0)

CMG

Windows Performance and Capacity Planning Challenges in Virtualized Environments - Comments (0)

CPU - Processor

Is there a table somewhere that will take the information in the CPU Family field in the NTCONFIG record (i.e., X86 FAMILY 15 MODEL 2 STEPPING 7 ) and convert that to a specific processor chip manufacturer name and model? - Comments (0)
Can I use the published clock speed in MHZ of the processor reliably as a relative speed rating? - Comments (1)
How should I report on processor utilization for machines running Intel Hyper-threading (HT) technology? - Comments (0)
What sort of CPU capture ratios can I expect on my Windows machine? - Comments (0)
What is the most reliable indicator of CPU contention? - Comments (0)

Data Collection Set

Counter values you need are not available in the NTSMF data collection file - Comments (0)
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) details, issues, and options - Comments (0)
Use DmPerfss.cfg to exclude Performance Library DLLs that cause collection problems - Comments (0)
What is the minimum sampling period for Performance Sentry? - Comments (0)
What do I need to do to monitor my servers running MS Exchange, SQL Server, or IIS? - Comments (0)

Disk

Is there a simple way to tune my Disks? - Comments (0)
“Have you ever wondered how to determine the logical disk size looking at Performance Monitor performance metrics?” - Comments (0)
I do not see a drive letter for some of my logical disks. Instead, I see something that looks like HarddiskDmVolumessystemnameDg0Volume1 instead. What is that all about? - Comments (0)
Why are the Logical Disk counters zero? - Comments (0)
How was the problem with the % Disk Time Counter fixed in Windows 2000? - Comments (0)
The Logical/Physical Disk % Disk Time counters look wrong. What gives? - Comments (0)
I am concerned about the overhead of the diskperf measurements. What does this feature cost? - Comments (0)
I see a value of 2.63 in the Ave Disk Queue Length Counter field. How should I interpret this value? - Comments (0)

Documentation

Is the Performance Sentry User Guide available online - Comments (0)

Events

Microsoft’s Hyper-V Performance — Introduction - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry Cumulative Maintenance Released - Comments (0)

FAQ

Windows Performance and Capacity Planning Challenges in Virtualized Environments - Comments (0)
Defining and Using Machine Groups in the Performance Sentry PDB - Comments (0)
Microsoft’s Hyper-V Performance — Introduction - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry Cumulative Maintenance Released - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry Collection Service Uninstall Problem on x64 Machines. - Comments (0)
What can you tell me about the object “Deprecated Features” - Comments (0)
Running Performance Sentry Portal in Windows 2008 and Windows7 - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry support for VMWare – What do I need to do? - Comments (0)
How does Performance Sentry VM collect data from hosts and guests on ESX Server? - Comments (0)
Will you please explain Cycle End Processing? - Comments (0)

How To

Workaround for Telerik WPF RadNumericUpDown Control Minimum Value Binding Problem - Comments (0)
Setting up a VMware Demonstration Environment on a Laptop - Comments (0)
Installing Performance Sentry VM on Windows Server 2008 - Comments (0)

Hyper-V

Microsoft’s Hyper-V Performance — Introduction - Comments (0)

IT Expenses

MXG and Performance Sentry for Cost Effective Windows Performance Monitoring - Comments (0)
Server Performance Drives Down IT Costs - Comments (0)

Memory

What can you tell me about Virtual Memory? - Comments (0)
How can I tell when I am out of RAM and need to add more memory? - Comments (0)
How do I find a memory leak? - Comments (0)
How can I tell how much RAM is being used by application processes and various operating system functions? - Comments (0)
I see a lot page faults on my system even though there appear to be plenty of Available Bytes. What is going on? - Comments (0)

News

Windows Performance and Capacity Planning Challenges in Virtualized Environments - Comments (0)
Microsoft’s Hyper-V Performance — Introduction - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry Cumulative Maintenance Released - Comments (0)
Demand Technology Software Announces v2.4 of the Performance Sentry Web Portal - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry VM 2.0 now available - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry version 4.0 supports enterprise-ready real-time alerts - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry VM — Providing Professional Class Performance Data Collection in Your VMware Environment - Comments (0)
Demand Technology Releases Scalable, Multi-Platform Performance Reporting Portal - Comments (0)
Demand Technology Announces Performance Sentry Portal Beta Release - Comments (0)
Demand Technology Software Named Microsoft Certified Partner - Comments (0)

NTSMF - Collection Service

Performance Sentry Cumulative Maintenance Released - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry Collection Service Uninstall Problem on x64 Machines. - Comments (0)
Will you please explain Cycle End Processing? - Comments (0)
Counter values you need are not available in the NTSMF data collection file - Comments (0)
Use DmPerfss.cfg to exclude Performance Library DLLs that cause collection problems - Comments (0)
How does the Performance Sentry collection service work? - Comments (0)
What is the minimum sampling period for Performance Sentry? - Comments (0)
“Have you ever wondered how to determine the logical disk size looking at Performance Monitor performance metrics?” - Comments (0)
What is the meaning of the message “Insufficient data in performance name table” in the NTSMF.LOG File? - Comments (0)
Why is Performance Sentry not collecting a specific performance counter (or counters) that I need to look at? - Comments (0)

Performance engineering

New Performance Objects in Windows 8 and Server 2012 - Comments (0)
Measuring Processor Utilization in Windows and Windows applications - Comments (0)

Performance Metrics

Counter values you need are not available in the NTSMF data collection file - Comments (0)
Help! Do you know if there are any interesting Active Directory Objects or Counters? - Comments (0)
How does the Module filter work? - Comments (0)
What does the Module collection function do? - Comments (0)
I see a value of 2.63 in the Ave Disk Queue Length Counter field. How should I interpret this value? - Comments (0)
If I am running multiple instances of SQL Server, how do I figure out which instance of the sqlservr.exe process data maps to which SQL Server instance? - Comments (0)
What do I need to do to monitor my servers running MS Exchange, SQL Server, or IIS? - Comments (0)
What key metrics in Windows I should collect and report on? - Comments (0)

Performance Monitoring

Windows Performance and Capacity Planning Challenges in Virtualized Environments - Comments (0)
Microsoft’s Hyper-V Performance — Introduction - Comments (0)
New Performance Objects in Windows 8 and Server 2012 - Comments (0)
MXG and Performance Sentry for Cost Effective Windows Performance Monitoring - Comments (0)
Measuring Processor Utilization in Windows and Windows applications - Comments (0)
Great to be back!!! - Comments (1)
Server Performance Drives Down IT Costs - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry VM goes GA today - Comments (0)
Setting up a VMware Demonstration Environment on a Laptop - Comments (0)
Installing Performance Sentry VM on Windows Server 2008 - Comments (0)

Performance Reporting

New Performance Objects in Windows 8 and Server 2012 - Comments (0)
MXG and Performance Sentry for Cost Effective Windows Performance Monitoring - Comments (0)
Demand Tech releases SCOM Management Pack for Performance Sentry VM - Comments (0)
Using Crystal Reports with the Portal to Produce Customized Capacity Planning Reports - Comments (0)
Using a Server Performance Monitor to find Code Problems - Comments (0)

Performance Sentry

Defining and Using Machine Groups in the Performance Sentry PDB - Comments (0)
Microsoft’s Hyper-V Performance — Introduction - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry Cumulative Maintenance Released - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry Collection Service Uninstall Problem on x64 Machines. - Comments (0)
Will you please explain Cycle End Processing? - Comments (0)
Counter values you need are not available in the NTSMF data collection file - Comments (0)
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) details, issues, and options - Comments (0)
Use DmPerfss.cfg to exclude Performance Library DLLs that cause collection problems - Comments (0)
What is the minimum sampling period for Performance Sentry? - Comments (0)
Is the Performance Sentry User Guide available online - Comments (0)

Performance Sentry Portal

Running Performance Sentry Portal in Windows 2008 and Windows7 - Comments (0)
Running the Performance Sentry Portal in Windows 2003 - Comments (0)

Performance Sentry Portal

Defining and Using Machine Groups in the Performance Sentry PDB - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry Cumulative Maintenance Released - Comments (0)
Demand Technology Software Announces v2.4 of the Performance Sentry Web Portal - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry Performance Database (PDB) Data Model - Comments (0)
Using a Server Performance Monitor to find Code Problems - Comments (0)

Performance Sentry VM

Performance Sentry support for VMWare – What do I need to do? - Comments (0)
How does Performance Sentry VM collect data from hosts and guests on ESX Server? - Comments (0)

Performance Sentry VM

Performance Sentry VM 2.0 now available - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry VM goes GA today - Comments (0)
Setting up a VMware Demonstration Environment on a Laptop - Comments (0)
Demand Tech releases SCOM Management Pack for Performance Sentry VM - Comments (0)
Installing Performance Sentry VM on Windows Server 2008 - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry VM Available for General Beta - Comments (0)

Sentry Administration

Will you please explain Cycle End Processing? - Comments (0)
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) details, issues, and options - Comments (0)
Use DmPerfss.cfg to exclude Performance Library DLLs that cause collection problems - Comments (0)
“Have you ever wondered how to determine the logical disk size looking at Performance Monitor performance metrics?” - Comments (0)

SMF Files

Will you please explain Cycle End Processing? - Comments (0)
What is the format of the Performance Sentry data files? - Comments (0)

SQL Server

What can you tell me about the object “Deprecated Features” - Comments (0)
What do these SQL Server counters mean? - Comments (0)
Where are my SQL Server 2000 counters? - Comments (0)
If I am running multiple instances of SQL Server, how do I figure out which instance of the sqlservr.exe process data maps to which SQL Server instance? - Comments (0)

TCO

MXG and Performance Sentry for Cost Effective Windows Performance Monitoring - Comments (0)
Server Performance Drives Down IT Costs - Comments (0)

Uncategorized

Demand Technology Software Announces v2.4 of the Performance Sentry Web Portal - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry VM 2.0 now available - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry supports Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 - Comments (0)
New Performance Objects in Windows 8 and Server 2012 - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry supports Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 - Comments (0)

Video

Setting up a VMware Demonstration Environment on a Laptop - Comments (0)
Installing Performance Sentry VM on Windows Server 2008 - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry VM Available for General Beta - Comments (0)

Virtualization

Microsoft’s Hyper-V Performance — Introduction - Comments (0)
Demand Tech releases SCOM Management Pack for Performance Sentry VM - Comments (0)
Performance Sentry VM Available for General Beta - Comments (0)

VMware

Performance Sentry support for VMWare – What do I need to do? - Comments (0)
How does Performance Sentry VM collect data from hosts and guests on ESX Server? - Comments (0)

Windows Performance

Windows Performance and Capacity Planning Challenges in Virtualized Environments - Comments (0)
How does the Performance Sentry collection service work? - Comments (0)
What is the minimum sampling period for Performance Sentry? - Comments (0)
“Have you ever wondered how to determine the logical disk size looking at Performance Monitor performance metrics?” - Comments (0)
What is the meaning of the message “Insufficient data in performance name table” in the NTSMF.LOG File? - Comments (0)
What is Performance Sentry and how does it relate to NTSMF? - Comments (0)
How is running Performance Sentry different from Microsoft’s Perfmon or the Windows System Monitor? - Comments (0)
What is Performance Sentry and how does it relate to NTSMF? - Comments (0)
How do I find a memory leak? - Comments (0)
How can I tell how much RAM is being used by application processes and various operating system functions? - Comments (0)