VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Performance Monitoring
Introduction
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Introduction
Logical volume management is a tool that can improve overall system
performance. This chapter has performance management and
configuration guidelines that can help you to benefit from the advantages
provided by Volume Manager. This chapter provides information to
establish performance priorities and describes ways to obtain and use
appropriate data
The following topics are covered in this chapter:
• “Performance Guidelines:”
• “Data Assignment”
• “Striping”
• “Mirroring”
• “Mirroring and Striping”
• “Striping and Mirroring”
• “Using RAID-5”
• “Performance Monitoring”
• “Performance Priorities”
• “Getting Performance Data”
• “Using Performance Data”
• “Tuning the Volume Manager”
• “General Tuning Guidelines”
• “Tunables”
• “Tuning for Large Systems”