Lotus Domino 6 for z/OS : performance tuning and capacity planning / [Mike Ebbers ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ebbers, Mike.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web sites--Authoring programs.

Web sites.

Lotus Domino.

Physical Description:

x, 208 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

White Plains, NY : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Become a published author

Comments welcome

Chapter 1. What's new in Domino 6

1.1 The unique benefits of z/OS as a Domino platform

1.2 General recommendations

1.3 What's new in Lotus Domino Release 6 for z/OS

1.3.1 Performance improvements

1.3.2 Usability improvements

1.4 More to come

1.5 What's New in Lotus Domino 6 and Lotus Notes 6

1.5.1 What's new in Lotus Notes 6 for end users

1.5.2 What's new in Lotus Domino 6 for Domino administrators

1.5.3 What's new in Lotus Domino 6 for Domino designers/developers

1.5.4 What's new about Lotus Domino 6 servers

1.5.5 Cross-platform summary

Chapter 2. z/OS tuning

2.1 Recommendations

2.2 Planning the server architecture

2.2.1 z/OS address spaces

2.2.2 Multiple Domino servers

2.2.3 Domino on symmetric multiprocessors

2.2.4 Setting z/OS parameters

2.3 Managing the Domino workload

2.3.1 Workload Manager goal mode

2.4 XPLink

2.5 Storage for Domino servers

2.5.1 Virtual storage

2.5.2 Real storage

2.5.3 64-bit processor storage

2.5.4 Page datasets

2.5.5 Paging

2.5.6 Place program module in shared storage and LPA

2.6 PR/SM™

2.7 Monitoring z/OS

2.7.1 RMF

2.7.2 Monitoring z/OS with SMF

2.7.3 Monitoring z/OS with Domino statistics

Chapter 3. DASD and file system tuning

3.1 Recommendations

3.2 DASD subsystem considerations

3.2.1 The Enterprise Storage Server

3.3 Monitoring DASD I/O activity

3.3.1 RMF

3.3.2 SMF record types

3.3.3 UNIX statistics

3.4 UNIX file system

3.5 DFSMS recommendations

3.5.1 Buffer pool sizes

3.5.2 Sync daemon interval

3.5.3 File system space monitoring

3.5.4 Shared HFS

3.5.5 DFSMS locking

3.5.6 File system reorganizations.

3.6 Multivolume file system

3.6.1 Recommendations

3.7 zSeries File System (zFS)

3.7.1 zFS performance

3.7.2 zFS tuning

3.7.3 zFS locking improvements

3.7.4 Migrating data from HFS to zFS

3.8 Recommended file system structure for Domino

Chapter 4. Network tuning

4.1 Recommendations

4.2 TCP/IP

4.2.1 Monitoring TCP/IP

4.2.2 Tuning TCP/IP

4.3 Network connection

4.3.1 Monitoring connection activity

4.4 Network performance

4.4.1 Splitting the network

4.5 Domino network statistics

4.6 Domino 6 performance improvements

4.6.1 Network compression

4.6.2 LZ1 compaction

4.6.3 Centralized directory

4.6.4 Streaming replication

Chapter 5. Domino tuning

5.1 Recommendations

5.2 Verifying BPX parameters after Domino installation

5.3 Domino initialization parameters

5.3.1 Changing parameters in notes.ini

5.3.2 Setting notes.ini for performance

5.3.3 The Notes_SHARED_DPOOLSIZE parameter

5.3.4 Thread parameter

5.4 NSF buffer pool size

5.4.1 Setting the parameter

5.4.2 Monitoring

5.4.3 Tuning NSF_Buffer_Pool

5.4.4 Recommendation

5.5 Transaction logging

5.5.1 Setting up transaction logging

5.5.2 Transaction logging and the Domino 6 lock manager

5.5.3 View logging

5.5.4 Soft deletes

5.5.5 Enabling quota enforcement

5.5.6 Restoring databases

5.5.7 Test results of transaction logging

5.5.8 Recommendation

5.6 Domino server tasks

5.6.1 Domino tasks started

5.7 Replication

5.7.1 Replication between servers

5.7.2 Replication between a client and a server

5.8 Indexing

5.8.1 Update and Updall tasks

5.8.2 Full text index

5.8.3 Number of indexing tasks

5.8.4 Indexing parameters

5.9 Compact

5.10 Unread marks

5.11 Multiple MAIL.BOX databases

5.12 Web server

5.12.1 Domino Web server.

5.12.2 Domino Web server parameters

Chapter 6. Domino configuration advanced options

6.1 Partitioning

6.1.1 Benefits of partitioning

6.1.2 Costs of partitioning

6.1.3 Test results with multiple partitioned Domino servers

6.1.4 Test result with four Domino partitioned servers

6.1.5 Partitioning recommendations

6.2 Clustering

6.2.1 Cluster components

6.2.2 Parameters that affect clustering

6.2.3 Costs of clustering

6.2.4 Monitoring clustering

6.2.5 Effectiveness of Domino clustering

6.2.6 Alternatives to Domino clustering

6.3 Hubs

Chapter 7. Domino monitoring

7.1 SMF type 108 record

7.1.1 Record mapping

7.1.2 RMF Lotus Domino server report

7.2 Other monitoring tools

7.2.1 The domps command

7.2.2 Notes log

7.2.3 Statistics and events log

7.2.4 Statistics and reporting database

7.2.5 Processing Domino statistics

Chapter 8. Capacity planning and performance management

8.1 Recommendations

8.2 Estimating processor capacity

8.2.1 Factors influencing the processor capacity needed

8.2.2 Which user measurement?

8.2.3 Registered users

8.2.4 Connected users

8.2.5 Active users

8.2.6 Domino transaction rate

8.2.7 CPU time used per transaction

8.2.8 Consider the peak times

8.2.9 Making an initial estimate

8.2.10 Capacity planning

8.3 Estimating processor storage

8.3.1 Estimating processor storage for Notes clients

8.3.2 Estimating processor storage for POP3 clients

8.3.3 Estimating storage for IMAP clients

8.3.4 Estimating storage for iNotes Web Access clients

8.4 The use of Domino partitioned servers

8.5 The use of zSeries LPARs

8.6 Estimating DASD required

8.6.1 Estimating DASD space

8.6.2 Estimating DASD I/O rates

8.7 Network considerations

8.8 Capacity planning assistance

8.8.1 TechXpress

8.8.2 SNAP/SHOT®.

8.8.3 IBM Testing Services

8.9 Performance management versus capacity planning

8.9.1 What is required for capacity planning

8.9.2 What is required for performance management

Appendix A. Workload Manager (WLM) example

Workload and service class descriptions

Report classes

Classification rules

Service definition goals for service classes

Appendix B. Using the domps command

B.1 Parameters

B.2 Displaying virtual storage

B.3 Output examples

B.3.1 Sample output for domps

B.3.2 Sample output for domps with -p

B.3.3 Sample output for domps with -t

Appendix C. Sample notes.ini file

Appendix D. Sample output of the show statistics command

Appendix E. Domino modify zFS command

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

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Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"SG24-6904-00."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

61455378