Hi, we are in the process of developing an SQL Server-based application for the purposes of monitoring historical server performance and baseline data. Which windows Server 2003 tool and specific data-gathering option would be best suited to obtaining this information?
Hi, I have a slight concern that the sevice may have an impact on the amount of time the processor is utilized. The % utilization was running at times near 50% before I installed a new service on my server. I would like to be notify it the processor utilization goes above 60%. How can this be done...
We have a SQL application running in an n-tier environment. Some of the users are complaining about application performance. I am going through the environment looking at all of the elements involved in processing this application. The information below shows all of the server systems involved in...
How can I measure IOPS between the SAN and VMware ESX server, Windows server, AIX, SUN, HPUX and Linux?
Hi everybody! We have a problem on our Exchange 2003 server thats been getting worse and worse. We have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server, and every time we try to shutdown or restart it, it take 10 to 20 minutes just to shut down and another 20 to startup. Sometimes we have to force shut it down...
I work as a consultant and we help our clients to find better IT infrastructure solutions. I am looking for storage analysis tools that can be installed at a client site fairly cheaply and that can: -- Analyze all servers in a network, including virtual servers. -- Identify each drive on each...
Almost every day something starts running on the server and performance slowly grinds to a stop causing me to have to reboot. I look at the processes and the only ones showing up are store.exe and system. There are no Events in the Event Viewer to shed some light as to what is hanging up the...
There are clearly maintenance functions that require the skill of a vendor maintenance engineer to perform on servers but are the following within a users capability to carry out? Replacing a failed disk drive? Replacing the power supply? Replacing the Fan? Replacing Memory Dimm? Replace CPU? ...
For the past few months the server has been having problems where it will lock up and experience memory errors. It usually causes one of the DIMM's to become disabled but it has been know to just lock up or simply reboot itself. At first I just replaced the RAM but it persisted so I contacted...
My question is, will attaching quotes, scopes of work and specification to a purchase requition take up server space and slow down the system. I really like this functionality but don't want to slow down the system taking up server space. Please advise.....
I am having software raids harddisk mirrored on windows 2000 server, can this restarts server saying physical dumping of memory. Any other problem can it create.
Help reviving servers. Configuration current: 8 300GB disks in Raid 5 10000RPM Each. Total 2TB (70%Full) with an average of 68kb files tottal of 24 million files. The curent read rate is at 8MB/Sec on NTFS windows 2003 Partition. Any suggestions on increasing performance on current configuration. ...


