Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2022

When you run a server system in your organization, you might have business needs not met using default server settings. For example, you might need the lowest possible energy consumption, or the lowest possible latency, or the maximum possible throughput on your server. This guide provides a set of guidelines that you can use to tune the server settings in Windows Server 2022 and obtain incremental performance or energy efficiency gains, especially when the nature of the workload varies little over time.

It is important that your tuning changes consider the hardware, the workload, the power budgets, and the performance goals of your server. This guide describes each setting and its potential effect to help you make an informed decision about its relevance to your system, workload, performance, and energy usage goals.

In this guide

This guide organizes performance and tuning guidance for Windows Server 2022 across three tuning categories:

Changes in this version

Sections added

• Software Defined Networking, including HNV and SLB gateway configuration guidance

• Storage Spaces Direct

• HTTP1.1 and HTTP2

• Windows Server Containers

Sections changed

• Updates to Active Directory guidance section

• Updates to File Server guidance section

• Updates to Web Server guidance section

• Updates to Hardware Power guidance section

• Updates to PowerShell tuning guidance section

• Significant updates to the Hyper-V guidance section

• Performance Tuning for Workloads removed, pointers to relevant resources added to Additional Tuning Resources article

• Removal of dedicated storage sections, in favor of new Storage Spaces Direct section and canonical Technet content

• Removal of dedicated networking section, in favor of canonical Technet content