The total number of IOPS and the I/O profile of a server are necessary to architect the storage required for a virtualized environment correctly. The IOPS and I/O profile are helpful in determining which Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) level to use with the number and type of disks to be used in order to support the server storage workload.

Windows perfmon can also be configured to collect metrics associated with CPU and memory usage by simply adding the associated counters to the data collector set.