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

AppFabric Caching and SharePoint

PowerShell

Update Confusion Resolved http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2014/02/06/update-to-guidance-for-patching-appfabric-on-sharepoint-2013-distributed-cache-servers.aspx
NOTE After AppFabric and SharePoint are installed on the server, AppFabric will continue to be updated independently from SharePoint. SharePoint Updates do not update the AppFabric software running on the SharePoint 2013 server. 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2843251
CU4 AppFabric 1.1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2800726

Use-CacheCluster
Get-AFCacheHostConfiguration –ComputerName (hostname)-CachePort "22233"

Note: This system highwatermark 99% is problematic. Cache is too small and filling up!

Reference

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/besidethepoint/archive/2013/03/27/appfabric-caching-and-sharepoint-1.aspx

AppFabric Caching and SharePoint: Concepts and Examples (Part 1) - Beside the Point - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

A discussion of SharePoint-related concepts from multiple perspectives.

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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/besidethepoint/archive/2013/03/27/appfabric-caching-and-sharepoint-2.aspx

AppFabric Caching (and SharePoint): Configuration and Deployment (Part 2) - Beside the Point - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

A discussion of SharePoint-related concepts from multiple perspectives.

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Good Article

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219613%28v=office.15%29.aspx

Caching

2013

SharePoint 2013: AppFabric and Distributed Cache Service
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20348.sharepoint-2013-appfabric-and-distributed-cache-service.aspx

Past

More from Microsoft
Cache settings operations (SharePoint Server 2010)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261797(office.14).aspx

Web Application Cache Settings
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770229
More from the rest of the web

Digging Deeper into the 2010 Caching Options from Shannon Bray (MCM SP2010)
http://shannonbray.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/digging-deeper-into-the-2010-caching-options-part-1/
http://shannonbray.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/digging-deeper-into-the-2010-caching-options-part-2

Measuring ASP.NET and SharePoint output cache
http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2010/04/02/measuring-asp-net-and-sharepoint-output-cache.aspx