Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 R2

When you run a server system in your organization, you might have business needs that are not met by using the default settings. For example, you might need the lowest possible energy consumption, or the lowest possible latency, or the maximum possible throughput on your server. This topic provides a set of guidelines that you can use to tune the server settings in Windows Server 2012 R2 and obtain incremental performance or energy efficiency gains, especially when the nature of the workload varies little over time.

This topic is split into the following sections:

• Performance Tuning for Server Hardware
• Performance Tuning for Subsystems
• Performance Tuning for Server Roles
• Performance Tuning for Workloads
• Additional Resources for Performance Tuning Guidelines

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