Yesterday, Microsoft announced the availability of performance guidelines for Windows Server 2016. They are not super advanced but they are perfectly fine. One nice thing is that you can view them offline (you don’t always have access to a fancy Internet connection working in a datacenter. My take on this is that you should browse trough the topics that you work with, take the ideas, convert them into reality and implement them in your deployment process. As they say in an old movie, and I quote:

– I feel the need, the need for more speed…

Server hardware

• Hardware performance considerations
• Hardware power considerations

Server role

• Active Directory Servers
• Containers
• File Servers
• Hyper-V Servers
• Remote Desktop Servers
• Web Servers
• Software Defined Networking (SDN) (new)

Server subsystem

• Cache and Memory Management
• Software Defined Networking
• Storage Spaces Direct
• Networking subsystem (new)

Offline viewing is here: Download PDF

/mike