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Microsoft Clustering:

Cluster Deep-Dive RCA's

Cluster Log Analysis

Cluster Stability / Resiliance Tuning

Cluster Performance Tuning

Why do my Clusters Fail, Evict Nodes randomly, lose FSW connectivity Randomly?

Microsoft Exchange Failover Clusters / CCR Clusters

Microsoft 2000, 2003, 2008 /R2, 2012 /R2 MSCS / MCS - Failover Clustering

Advanced Perfmon - Perf Analysis

Wireshark Analysis

HB Tuning / VMXNET Troubleshooting

TCP Offload Tuning

SQL Databases:

Why is my Virtualized SQL Server not performing as Promised / Architected?

AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AG)

Failover Clustered Instances (FCI)

Peak Usage Problems (Why does the DB perform poorly only during peak utilization)

Data Warehouse DB Perf Tuning (Large SQL DB's that cannot be completely stored in Memory)

OLTP Performance Tuning

Windows PageFile Tuning

SQL Memory Tuning

SAN Tuning

SQL Virtualization

SQL Disaster Recovery

Slow SQL Servers

SQL Performance Tuning for Virtual Infrastructure (SQL VM Tuning)

SQL Cluster Performance Analysis / Tuning / Architecture Enhancement

SQL 2012 "Always On" Clusters

Microsoft SQL Failover Clusters - (Expert Knowledge)

SQL CPU Tuning / NUMA Node inefficiency

Hypervisor / CPU Scheduler Tuning

Load Testing / Benchmarking

SQL Network Bottleneck Discovery

SQL: Server / Storage / Network - Balancing

Disk Block Inneficiencies

TempDB Tuning

Deadlocking

Index Fragmentation issues

TCP Offload Tuning

Advanced Perfmon - Perf Analysis

ADAM JOHNSON - Specialized Skill Matrix

VMWare:

Peak Performance Performance Discovery / Remediation

VMWare Performance Tuning

VM Right-Sizing

VM SQL tuning (Helping SQL Perform its best on a Guest O/S

ESXi Hardware Tuning for SQL

ESXi Hardware Tuning / Benchmarking

vSphere: Full Environmental Assesments in EXCEL, SolarWinds, etc

VM Disk Tuning

VM CPU / vCPU Tuning and Optimization

vCPU Overallocation Assesments

ESXTOP Studies

Performance Trending

VMXNET Driver Tuning

VMware ESX 2x, 3x, 4x, vSphere, ESXi 4x, 5x - (Expert Knowledge)

Advance Perfmon Perf Analysis

TCP Offload Tuning

Storage:

Storage: IOPS Studies / Bottleneck Discovery / Perf Tuning

Proper Configuration for Virtualized Environments

SIOC

Auto-Tier

Fiber Switches / Fabric

IBM DS Series Storage Arrays

HP EVA Storage Arrays

EMC Clarion, DMX Storage Arrays

IBM XIV Storage Arrays / XIV Migration utility for Storage Array Migrations

HBA Tuning

RCA: (Root Cause Analysis)

Advanced Root Cause Analysis - (Expert Knowledge)

Windows Retrospective Failure Analysis using WinDBG and Live Process Analysis

Windows Process Dump Analysis

Debugging Tools

Wireshark Network Analysis

Windows IO Bottlenecks

Procmon / Process Explorer Analysis

SpyStudio Analysis

Fiddler

WPT (Windows Performance Toolkit) WPR, WPA (Windows Performance Analyzer)

Active Directory Replication Troubleshooting

AD Metadata Cleanup

RCA: (Continued)

NTDS Replication Issues

AD Tombstone Troubleshooting

iPERF - Network Load Testing / Optimization

Memory Dump Analysis - MEMORY.dmp Analysis / Server Crashdump: Deep-Dive Analysis

Memory Forensics

Memory Performance Tuning

Application Optimization / Debugging

Slow Logins

Slow Application Launches

Application Performance Tuning

Windows PageFile Tuning

Misc:

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Active Directory 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 - (Expert Knowledge)

Citrix Metaframe, XPe, PS3, PS4, PS 4.5, XenApp5, XenApp6

IBM Blade Center H / HS20 / HS21 Blades

HP c7000 Blade Chassis / BL460 Series Blades

HP Blade Management Console

TIBCO DataSynapse Grid Server (Grid Computing)

Enterprise Architecture

Windows Server 2000 / 2003 / 2008 / R2, 2012 / R2 - (Expert Knowledge)