Tuning the schedule for daily operations
Typically, backup operations must be completed every day for all clients. Certain server maintenance processes must also run every day. Ensuring that resources for these critical operations are available when needed requires planning and tuning.
About this task
- Protecting client data by backing up storage pools
- Allocating data appropriately in the storage hierarchy
- Keeping the database, storage hierarchy, and server operations working efficiently
- Preparing for the next schedule cycle
Carefully schedule client and server workloads to achieve the best performance for your
environment. If the client and server operations overlap or are not given enough time and resources
to be processed, the environment might be impacted in the following ways:
- Less processing power and memory available to support an operation
- Performance degradation
- Insufficient space for data storage
- Issues with data placement
- Failed operations
For optimum performance, split the tasks of backing up and archiving client data, and performing server data maintenance into separate time windows. Most operations on the server have an optimal order, and in some cases must be completed without overlap to avoid resource contention problems.