About tuning Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability

Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) is widely used in a range of environments where performance plays a critical role. SFCFSHA has a number of tunable parameters and configuration options that are meant to enable customization of the stack for the particular environment and workload in which SFCFSHA is used. This guide helps administrators understand how some of these options affect performance, and provides guidelines for tuning the options.

This guide focuses on the important tunable parameters for SFCFSHA. For good performance for a workload, you might also need to tune other entities of the stack, such as the operating system, database, storage network, or disk array. While this guide discusses some of these parameters briefly, you should refer to the documentation from the entity's vendor for more information on how to tune these entities.

Warning:

Symantec recommends that you do not change the tunable VCS kernel parameters without assistance from Symantec support personnel. Several of the tunable parameters preallocate memory for critical data structures, and a change in their values could increase memory use or degrade performance.