Planning your storage and performance requirements

You must set realistic and achievable storage, and performance goals for your IBM® WebSphere® MQ system. Use the links to find out about factors that affect storage and performance on your platform.

The requirements vary depending on the systems that you are using IBM WebSphere MQ on, and what components you want to use.

For the latest information about supported hardware and software environments, see the System Requirements for IBM WebSphere MQ Web site:

www.ibm.com/software/integration/wmq/requirements/

IBM WebSphere MQ stores queue manager data in the file system. Use the following links to find out about planning and configuring directory structures for use with IBM WebSphere MQ:

Planning file system support
Requirements for shared file systems
Sharing IBM WebSphere MQ files
Directory structure on UNIX and Linux systems
Directory structure on Windows systems

Use the following links for information about system resources, shared memory, and process priority on UNIX and Linux:

IBM WebSphere MQ and UNIX System V IPC resources
Shared memory on AIX
WebSphere MQ and UNIX Process Priority