For most customer workloads, Windows Server 2003 performs very well out of the box. However, you may want to tune certain server settings to obtain incremental performance gains, especially when the nature of a server workload will not vary much over time. This document describes important tuning parameters and settings that can result in improved performance. Each setting and its potential effect are described to help you make an informed judgment about its relevance to the system, workload, and performance goals.
Included in This Document
| • | Introduction |
| • | Performance Tuning for Networking |
| • | Performance Tuning for Storage |
| • | Performance Tuning for IIS 6.0 |
| • | Performance Tuning for File Servers |
| • | Performance Tuning for Active Directory |
| • | Benchmarking Web Workloads (WebBench) |
| • | Benchmarking File Server Workload (NetBench) |
| • | Benchmarking Active Directory Workload (DirectoryMark) |
| • | Benchmarking Networking Workloads (Ttcp, Chariot) |
| • | Related Links |