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Capturing real-time performance data

Capturing real-time performance data - Windows Server Tutorial

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Capturing real-time performance data

- [Instructor] The event logs are useful when you want to track down something that's happened in the server's recent history. But there are things that you're going to want to monitor to forecast and prepare for the server's future. When you bring up a new server, you probably look at the suggested minimum requirements and make decisions on how much horsepower you're going to need for your server. But over a couple of years the different applications and server roles begin to grow with every update. And the number of users accessing the server increases. At some point it's reasonable to think that the hardware that was fine before, no longer meets the grade. The best way to see that day coming is by monitoring the server's performance. Now you can bring up a snapshot of this at any time by opening the Task Manager. One of the easiest ways is to right click on the task bar and select Task Manager from the list, and…

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