I recently switched out a 10 year old server for a brand new server in a small office and upgraded from Windows Server 2000 to Windows Server 2008 R2. After the switch was complete and some configurations were changed around we are running into what appear to be some bottlenecks in the network speed. Accessing programs on the server is slower (resulting in long loading times, slower report generation, etc.) than it was on the old server hardware.
I am wondering what options or tools I have, if there are any at all, to find out exactly where these hang ups might be coming from.
Best Answer
Perfmon counters and a tool called PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) which includes a set of thresholds for various counters. It also generates a report which points out which counters exceeded the thresholds.