Storage Foundation (SF) is widely used in a range of environments where performance plays a critical role. SF 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 SF 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 SF. 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.