Finding the “Make It Faster!” Button and hitting it!

2. SESSION CODE: SVR306 Ewan MacKellar Senior Premier Field Engineer Microsoft Finding the “Make It Faster!” Button and hitting it! (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

3. Finding the “make it faster” button

4. Agenda • Introducing the Performance Troubleshooting Flow Chart • Using the flow to • Fix slow disk • Find memory pressures • Uncover network issues • Identify high processor utilization • Resource to help you back at work (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

5. Use the flow to proactively maintain and fix servers

6. Use the flow to proactively maintain and fix servers (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

7. Using the flow to fix slow disks

8. Looking for disk latency

9. Looking for disk latency • Common causes of high latency • We don’t care what disks • Direct Attached Storage (DAS) • Storage Area Network (SAN) • Network Attached Storage (NAS) • Internet SCSI (iSCSI) • Installed software may change performance metrics

10. Looking for disk queuing

11. Looking for disk queuing • Common causes of queuing • Now we do care about what disks • Queuing to local disk • Queuing over a storage network • Identify the problem and work with the storage team

12. Understanding disk load

13. Understanding disk load • Load only matters when we see latency and queuing • Correlating load • Disks • Processes • Talking with the storage team

14. Using the flow to find memory pressures

15. Looking at memory pressure (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

16. Looking at memory pressure • Available memory is not unused memory • Why paging is not just the page file • The file system cache (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

17. Looking at application memory use • It’s all virtual • Monitoring overall memory consumption • How to identify consumers and leakers

18. Looking at application memory use • Remember it’s all virtual • Monitoring overall memory consumption • How to identify consumers and leakers

19. Looking for kernel memory pressure • Common causes of kernel memory depletion • Additional tools • Process Explorer shows kernel pool sizes • Poolmon shows memory pool consumers

20. Looking for kernel memory pressure • Common causes of kernel memory depletion • Additional tools • Process Explorer shows kernel pool sizes • Poolmon shows memory pool consumers

21. Looking for network problems

22. Looking for network problems • It’s just more I/O • Check end-to-end link saturation • Check the configuration of NICs • Don’t forget your network tools • Ping • Tracert • Pathping

23. Looking for processor problems

24. Looking for processor problems • Look for overall load • Determine which process is hogging the processor • Be careful in a virtualised environment

25. How does virtualization affects performance troubleshooting?

26. How does virtualization affects performance troubleshooting? • Disk counters are not affected • Queuing is more likely as resources may be shared • Memory counters may not be affected • Counters values may be false when using any type of dynamic memory allocation • Network counters are not affected • Queuing is more likely as resources may be shared • Processor counter are completely unreliable • Use native virtualisation tools to monitor processor utilisation (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

27. Go back to work, find the go faster button and hit it! (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

28. Go back to work, find the go faster button and hit it! • To get the flow follow me on Twitter for publishing info • Use PAL for fast checks, performance templates and to double check your results • Attend the Premier Workshop Performance Monitor: Monitoring Vital Signs WorkshopPLUS

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