This afternoon I was working on a little PowerShell script to collect some PerfMon counters. I borrowed some code from myself, and had counters represented in strings like the following (this is a greatly simplified version): Get-Counter -Counter ''\SQLServer:Wait Statistics(Average wait time (ms))\Lock waits'' The above code ...

In a current project, I need to collect performance counters from a set of virtual machines that are performing different tasks and running a variety of workloads.  In a similar project last year, I used LogMan to collect performance data.  This time I decided to try PowerShell because, well, all the kids are doing it, I felt a little ...