I experience a huge slow-down on server. And the more I inspect, the less I find out what's going on wrong there.
I think it might be related to I/O. On local PC, I can open Task Manager, and see the disk usage:
However, on server I can't find a (preferably easy) way to see how much is disk in usage and if it's become the bottleneck or not.
How do you see disk usage on Windows Server 2012?
Best Answer
By default Windows hide the entry because of a noted significant performance impact in collecting Disk metrics on a Server:
You need to register the Disk Perfcounter before you see this entry.
cmd.exe
as admindiskperf -Y
Now you see the entry:
To analyze disk activity deeper, install the WPT, run this xperf command and capture 1 minute of the activity:
and analyze the trace file in WPA.exe for DiskIO and FileIO.