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IBM Redbooks > IBM System x
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 Tuning IBM System x Servers for Performance
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This IBM Redbook describes what you can do to improve and maximize the performance of your business server applications running on IBM System x hardware and either Windows, Linux, or ESX Server operating systems. It describes how to improve the performance of the System x hardware, the operating system, and specific server applications.
The book is divided into five parts. Part 1 explains the technology implemented in the major subsystems in System x servers and shows what settings can be selected or adjusted to obtain the best performance. Part 2 describes the performance aspects of the operating systems: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware ESX Server.
Part 3 introduces the performance monitoring tools that are available to users of System x servers. Part 4 shows you how to analyze your system to find performance bottlenecks and what to do to eliminate them. Part 5 examines specific performance characteristics of specific server applications.
This book is targeted at people who configure Intel and AMD processor-based servers running Windows, Linux or ESX Server and seek to maximize performance. Some knowledge of servers is required. Skills in performance tuning are not assumed.
Update March 2007: Added content on the new Intel Xeon 5300 series "Clovertown" processors. |
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Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction to this IBM Redbook
Chapter 2. Understanding server types
Part 2. Server subsystems
Chapter 3. Introduction to hardware technology
Chapter 4. Processors and cache subsystem
Chapter 5. Virtualization hardware assists
Chapter 6. PCI bus subsystem
Chapter 7. Chipset architecture
Chapter 8. Memory subsystem
Chapter 9. Disk subsystem
Chapter 10. Network subsystem
Part 3. Operating systems
Chapter 11. Microsoft Windows Server
Chapter 12. Linux
Chapter 13. VMware ESX Server
Part 4. Monitoring tools
Chapter 14. Windows tools
Chapter 15. Linux tools
Chapter 16. ESX Server tools
Chapter 17. Capacity Manager
Part 5. Working with bottlenecks
Chapter 18. Spotting a bottleneck
Chapter 19. Analyzing bottlenecks for servers running Windows
Chapter 20. Analyzing bottlenecks for servers that are running Linux
Chapter 21. Case studies
Part 6. Applications
Chapter 22. File and print servers
Chapter 23. Lotus Domino
Chapter 24. Microsoft Exchange Server
Chapter 25. IBM DB2 Universal Database
Chapter 26. Microsoft SQL Server
Chapter 27. Oracle
Chapter 28. Microsoft Windows Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server
Chapter 29. Microsoft Internet Information Services |
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