Windows Server Performance Reports

While the Top X Performance Reports are very flexible and can report on any performance counter, a separate report is needed for each counter. This can be unwieldy and result in a large number of reports. For the Windows operating systems, there are really just a set of four metrics that are critical to understand: processor, memory, disk, and network. The Windows core OS management packs include a pair of reports that do a great job of presenting this information. The two reports are Performance By System and Performance By Utilization.

The Performance By System shows performance metrics for each system included in the report in its own section, allowing an administrator to drill into the performance of the ...

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