Tuning SFW

SFW provides the vxtune command to tune SFW tunables.

This command is especially useful if you want to experiment with different values to arrive at an optimum value that suits your requirements.

Syntax for vxtune command:

vxtune [ <tunable> [<value>] ]

Parameters for vxtune command:

Parameters

Description

Tunable

Specifies the tunable name whose value you want to display or change.

Value

Specifies the value that you want to set for the tunable.

A new tunable, vol_maxkiocount is applicable for vxio. You can tune it as follows:

vol_maxkiocount: Specifies the maximum number of parallel I/O operations that SFW can perform.

The maximum permissible value can be 2147483647. The default is 2048.