SharePoint Performance Optimization and Scale

2016

Optimize Performance
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj721440(v=office.16).aspx
Planning Performance
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262971(v=office.16).aspx

2013

How To Calculate Number of web front end servers in a SharePoint farm 2013 and 2010
http://abhayajoshi.blogspot.com/2014/01/how-to-calculate-number-of-web-front_24.html

Capacity management and sizing for SharePoint Server 2013
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261700(v=office.16).aspx

Optimize Performance
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj721440.aspx
Planning Performance
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262971(v=office.15).aspx

2010

Scaling SharePoint
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261795(v=office.12).aspx

Interacting with Data Collector Sets via Powershell
http://blogs.technet.com/b/brad_rutkowski/archive/2009/02/18/interacting-with-data-collector-sets-via-powershell.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7926.sharepoint-2010-tips-for-dealing-with-performance-issues.aspx
Great list of Links on SharePoint Performance
http://www.sharepointedutech.com/2011/10/09/spc373-performance-tuning-sharepoint-2010/
http://www.slideshare.net/joeloleson/sharepoint-performance-optimization-in-10-steps-for-the-it-professional

Developer Performance Tools (Visual Studio Solutions)
SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators check custom SharePoint solutions that use the SharePoint Object Model helping measure against known Microsoft dispose best practices http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rogerla/archive/2010/12/13/announcing-spdisposecheck-v14-0-4762-1000-update-for-sharepoint-development.aspx

IIS
w3wp.exe using too much memory and resources
http://blog.whitesites.com/w3wp-exe-using-too-much-memory-and-resources__633900106668026886_blog.htm

SAN
Great Video and scripts to help diagnose issues (SAN or not)http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2011/08/how-prove-its-san-problem-webcast-video/

SQL Performance Tools

SQLIOSim - For Microsoft SQL Server 2005, SQLIOSim was shipped as a separate download package. Starting with SQL Server 2008, SQLIOSim is included with the SQL Server product installation http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231619
SQLIO - Microsoft Utility used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20163

Other Performance Tools

Logman and powershell
http://colleenmorrow.com/2012/02/13/using-powershell-to-deploy-performance-monitor/
Team Foundation Server with Test Edition
Jumble
Grinder
OpenSTA
Fiddler2
webpagetest.org
perfmon
SQL Server Management Studio
Firebug and Firebug lite
HTTP Watch
IE Dev Tool Bar
Temp DB
Separate Disk
Watch Disk Space
Compact
Watch Memory
GZip

OLD

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sanjaynarang/archive/2009/04/18/sharepoint-performance-stress-load-testing.aspx