Tuning Windows 2012 – File System, Part 4

Performance Tuning for a File Server Workload

You might be familiar with the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) offered by Microsoft that can help you plan your file server capacity. The tool creates many users that connect to the server and perform typical operations such as downloading files, uploading files, browsing directories, and opening files. FSCT gives a throughput score for each user count and evaluates if the server is overloaded with that many users. The highest user count without overload is the maximum number of users that the server can support under this workload.  We’ll cover a few more tuning parameters below that can further help you optimize your file server. (more…)