This chapter is designed to teach you the considerations for server hardware and best practices regarding performance monitoring methodology. Understanding the importance of a server's role in a computer network and possessing knowledge of a server's hardware components has two benefits: it helps you to select the server hardware as well as troubleshoot that hardware.
Also, this chapter teaches you server performance monitoring methodologies and procedures. Performance monitoring will help you to identify the cause of server performance issues at an early stage. In that way, you will be able to react promptly to avoid further degradation of server performance. As for the server baseline, it represents a snapshot of the server's performance under a normal workload, which enables you to compile a detailed report about...