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How to create a Data Collector Set to help evaluate domain controller capacity requirements
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How to create a Data Collector Set to help evaluate domain controller capacity requirements
This topic explains how to create a user-defined data collector set using Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor. The counters that are added to the collector set are those that are specified in
Capacity Planning for Active Directory Domain Services
. They comprise the data set to gather in order to evaluate the current capacity that existing domain controllers are consuming. For an explanation of each counter and the difference between logical disk and physical disk, see
Performance Monitor Counters
. This procedure shows how to load all the relevant counters in a custom data collector set.
In
Server Manager
, double-click
Diagnostics
, double-click
Performance
, double-click
Data Collector Sets
, and click
User Defined
.
Click
Action
, click
New
, and click
Data Collector Set
.
Type a name for the data collector set, click
Create manually
, and click
Next
.
Click
Create data logs
, select
Performance counter
, and click
Next
.
For
Sample interval
, select 15 (default) or 30 or 60, change
Units
to
Minutes
, and click
Add
.
Under
Available counters
:
Double-click
Logical Disk
, under
Instances of selected object
, select the drive that hosts the AD DS database, select the following counters and click
Add
:
LogicalDisk()\Avg Disk sec/Read
LogicalDisk()\Avg Disk sec/Write
LogicalDisk()\Avg Disk sec/Transfer
LogicalDisk()\Reads/sec
LogicalDisk()\Writes/sec
LogicalDisk()\Transfers/sec
LogicalDisk()\Avg. Disk Read Queue Length
LogicalDisk()\Avg. Disk Write Queue Length
LogicalDisk()\Avg. Disk Queue Length
Double-click
Netlogon
, under
Instances of selected object
, select
<All instances>
, select the following counters and click
Add
:
Netlogon(*)\Semaphore Acquires
Netlogon(*)\Semaphore Timeouts
Double-click
Network Interface
, under
Instances of selected object
, select the network adapter for the domain controller, select the following counters and click
Add
:
Network Interface(*)\Bytes Received/sec
Network Interface(*)\Bytes Sent/sec
Double-click
Process
, under
Instances of selected object
, select
lsass
, select the following counters and click
Add
:
Process(lsass)\% Processor Time
When done, click
OK
, then click
Finish
. When peak activity is expected for the domain controller, right-click the data collector set, and click
Start
.
Active Directory
,
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,
Capacity Guidelines
,
capacity planning
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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