ISA 2006 speed issues
Using ISA 2006 we are having speed issues. We are seeing about 1.5MBPS from our 100MBPS line. Help!

Answer Question   |  June 8, 2011  5:28 PM
ISA, ISA 2006, ISA Server, Server Performance

What is the average uptime percentage of servers?
You hear a lot of statements from venders usually based on polling as to to what the average percentage of servers per year is and yet the only ones who would really know this percentage are those that actually measure it. Can anyone who does measure their uptime percentage tell me what that percentage is? [...]

Answer Question   |  December 8, 2011  8:18 AM
Server Performance, Server uptime, Server uptime percentage, Servers, Uptime percentages

windows Server 2003
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?

Answer Question   |  July 16, 2009  11:07 PM
Server Performance, SQL Server, Windows Server 2003

% Processor time
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 [...]

Answer Question   |  July 21, 2009  10:58 PM
CPU Utilization, Server Performance, Systems Management

Server 2003 memory performance configuration
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 the application and the page file and RAM [...]

Answer Question   |  February 20, 2009  8:35 PM
Server Performance, SQL, SQL Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance

Measuring SAN IOPS
How can I measure IOPS between the SAN and VMware ESX server, Windows server, AIX, SUN, HPUX and Linux?

Answer Question   |  February 11, 2009  3:39 PM
IOPS, SAN, SAN Performance, Server Performance, VMware

VERY slow server startup and shutdown
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 [...]

Answer Question   |  March 29, 2012  1:00 AM
Dell PowerEdge 2850, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 performance, Hardware, Server Performance, SQL, SQL database corrupt

Looking for suggestions for storage analysis tools
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 server and present [...]

Answer Question   |  November 17, 2008  7:44 PM
Server Performance, Storage analysis, Storage analysis tools, Virtual Servers

Something is slowing down my server Dell PowerEdge 1800
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 [...]

Answer Question   |  October 29, 2008  8:32 PM
Dell PowerEdge, Dell PowerEdge 1800, Dell PowerEdge Performance, Server Performance, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance

Which of the following can a user reasonably do for himself
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? Jim4522

Answer Question   |  August 20, 2008  8:33 PM
Server maintenance, Server Performance

I have a windows 2000 server that keeps locking up
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 [...]

Answer Question   |  July 25, 2008  8:34 PM
Lock ups, Memory errors, RAM, Random reboots, Server Performance, Windows 2000 Server

Server Space
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…..

Answer Question   |  June 11, 2008  4:56 PM
Server management, Server Performance

can software raids on windows 2000 server hamper server perormance.. like blue screen error
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.

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2008  9:45 AM
Mirroring, RAID, Server Performance, Software RAID, Windows 2000 Server

Increasing server performance
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. P.S. We are running diskkeeper as difrag utility.

Answer Question   |  September 19, 2008  5:59 PM
NTFS, RAID, RAID 5, Server Performance, Storage servers, Windows Server 2003