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Hard disks counters and performance monitor

Hi there

Can someone please tell me how to create counters and performance log (or whatever it is ) for a hard disk on a windows server 2008.

How to add the counters and most importantly knowing that the hard disk is part of the a virtual machine what is considered as normal activity knowing that this VM is running SQL Server 2008

I think I am getting confused so the simpler step by step the better pls  

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For now my friend since I have no experience with VM and since it is a virtual machine shared with other on the same host then I am inclined to think it is a Windows problem. Let us start with the basic steps first

The server is running SQL and the Read/Write is really high

I have set the counters but not sure I have done them correctly

SO, for now I need to know the following

1- How to correctly create hard disk counters and watch them over time

2- What is acceptable lever for read/write counters for a hard disk on VM running SQL on a Windows Server 2008

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I have another senior engineer who is adamant that it could be nothing to do with  the Data store

So I have decided to start troubleshooting from scratch

I am treating it as a windows issue for now
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