Performance Tunning fo Windows Server 2008 R2

Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2
September 7, 2012

Abstract
This guide describes important tuning parameters and settings that you can adjust to improve the performance and energy efficiency of the Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating system. This guide describes each setting and its potential effect to help you make an informed decision about its relevance to your system, workload, and performance goals.
This paper is for information technology (IT) professionals and system administrators who need to tune the performance of a server that is running Windows Server 2008 R2.
This information applies to the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system.
References and resources discussed here are listed at the end of this guide.
The current version of this guide is maintained on the Web at: Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2
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Document History
Date
Change

September 7, 2012
Further updates to the Performance Tuning guidance for the TPC-E Workload section
May 13, 2011
“Performance Tuning for Web Servers” – Updated guidance to reflect that Http.sys manages connections automatically.
“Performance Tuning for File Servers” – Fixed typos in NFS Server tuning parameter registry