Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
• Spend time performing capacity analysis to save time troubleshooting and firefighting.
• Use capacity-analysis processes to help weed out the unknowns.
• Establish systemwide policies and procedures to begin to proactively manage your system.
• After establishing systemwide policies and procedures, start characterizing system workloads.
• Use performance metrics and other variables such as workload characterization, vendor requirements or recommendations, industry-recognized benchmarks, and the data that you collect to establish a baseline.
• Use the benchmark results only as a guideline or starting point.
• Use the Task Manager or the Resource Monitor in Performance Monitor ...
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