IBM Lotus Domino for iSeries Performance and Tuning

You’ve heard about the outstanding performance of the IBM® eServer® iSeries™ server with the NotesBench performance benchmarks. iSeries is clearly a leader in Lotus® Domino® performance and scalability. But how do you capitalize on this performance leadership in your own situation? As you deploy your Domino applications on the iSeries server, there are simple steps you can take to ensure that you achieve the best performance from your iSeries Domino servers.

The purpose of this paper is to show you some of the most commonly used tuning tips. Before you implement any of these tuning tips, you must ensure that your iSeries is performing well and there are no other major bottlenecks such as CPU, memory, network bandwidth, or disk I/O. If any of these bottlenecks exist, they will most certainly impact performance of the Lotus Domino environment on your iSeries server.

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Publish Date
01 July 2004

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Author(s)

Kim Greene is president of Kim Greene Consulting, Inc. She has over five years of experience with Domino and 13 years of experience with the AS/400 and iSeries platform. She specializes in iSeries Domino performance analysis, system and application tuning, enterprise integration with back-end applications and data, and custom Domino development. Kim frequently writes for technology magazines and speaks at conferences worldwide. Previously she worked for IBM in Rochester, MN, in PartnerWorld for Developers (PWD) helping IBM Business Partners incorporate Domino into their existing applications. She also worked on areas of OS/400 performance in the AS/400 development laboratory.

• Kim Greene

Dave Johnson is an advisory software engineer at IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. He works on iSeries System Performance team focusing on Domino and Lotus collaboration products. His 19-year career with IBM has been spent mostly in performance-related work. He also worked in OS/400 development writing code for the IFS.

• Dave Johnson

Joe Peterson is a Senior Software Engineer on the iSeries development team in Rochester, MN. His focus is on the performance of Lotus products.

• Joe Peterson

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