Operating system and performance information cross-reference

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Most of the performance information applies to any client or server, on any operating system. For certain operating systems, specific information about configuration of clients and servers for performance is available.

Table 1. Topics for IBM Storage Protect servers, by operating system
Server operating system	Key topics	Topics specifically for the operating system
AIX®	Configuring the server for optimal performance Monitoring and maintaining the environment for performance Identifying performance bottlenecks Tuning server performance Tuning disk storage for the server Tuning network performance	Tuning AIX systems for IBM Storage Protect server performance Configuring AIX systems for disk performance Monitoring performance with operating system tools Setting network options for IBM Storage Protect on AIX systems
Linux®	Configuring the server for optimal performance Monitoring and maintaining the environment for performance Identifying performance bottlenecks Tuning server performance Tuning disk storage for the server Tuning network performance	Tuning Linux systems for IBM Storage Protect server performance Tuning Linux on System z systems for IBM Storage Protect server performance Configuring Linux systems for disk performance Monitoring performance with operating system tools
Windows	Configuring the server for optimal performance Monitoring and maintaining the environment for performance Identifying performance bottlenecks Tuning server performance Tuning disk storage for the server Tuning network performance	Tuning Windows systems for IBM Storage Protect server performance Monitoring performance with operating system tools

Table 2. Topics for IBM Storage Protect clients, by operating system
Client operating system or environment	Key topics	Topics specifically for the operating system
AIX	Configuring clients for optimal performance Identifying performance bottlenecks Tuning client performance Tuning network performance	Tuning journal-based backups File space tuning Tuning for IBM Storage Protect for Space Management
Linux	Configuring clients for optimal performance Identifying performance bottlenecks Tuning client performance Tuning network performance	Tuning journal-based backups File space tuning Tuning for IBM Storage Protect for Space Management
Mac OS X	Configuring clients for optimal performance Identifying performance bottlenecks Tuning client performance Tuning network performance
Oracle Solaris	Configuring clients for optimal performance Identifying performance bottlenecks Tuning client performance Tuning network performance	File space tuning Tuning for IBM Storage Protect for Space Management
VMware	Tuning virtual machine backup operations Resolving common performance problems with virtual machine backup operations
Windows	Configuring clients for optimal performance Identifying performance bottlenecks Tuning client performance Tuning network performance	Tuning journal-based backups Windows system state backups

Resources for operating system information

User groups and other sites can be good sources of information for tuning and solving problems for your operating system. The following list gives some examples.

AIX: Search for performance management and tuning information for AIX in the AIX product information .
Windows: Search for performance information for Windows hardware at http://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/hardware.