Evaluate the characteristics and configuration of the system where the server is installed to ensure that the server is set up for good performance.
Procedure
- Review the Checklist for server hardware and operating system.
Correct items as needed.
- Review the Checklist for server database disks. Correct items as needed.
- Review the Checklist for server recovery log disks. This checklist covers the active log, archive
log, and other logs. Correct items as needed.
- Review the Checklist for storage pools on disk. Correct
items as needed.
- If you are getting new storage, test the storage system
before you implement it. You can use tools to evaluate the characteristics
of storage systems before you use them for Tivoli® Storage
Manager database
or storage pools. For more information, see Analyzing the basic performance of disk systems.
- Review the tips for disk systems on specific operating
systems. Operating systems can require different techniques for optimizing
disk operations. For details, see Configuring the operating system for disk performance.
- Review the Checklist for Tivoli Storage Manager server configuration for
tips about configuring schedules and other operations.
- If you use data deduplication, review the Checklist for data deduplication.
- If you use node replication, review the Checklist for node replication.