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Migrating to 7.x Optimizing the SMP Infrastructure

Paul Butler EMM Subject Matter Expert

Optimizing the SMP Infrastructure

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Optimizing the SMP Infrastructure 2

Global Design & Hardware 1

Operating System & IIS 2

SQL Server 3

SMP Console Settings 4

Global Design & Hardware




• Check Hardware/OS requirements for each server role

• 20k nodes per SMP

• One SQL instance for each SMP Server

• Properly plan replication or hierarchy or export/import

• Robust Site design

• Review Design and Implementation Guide

• Migration process well known and documented

• Design review from a Partner or a Symantec Architect



HDD Setup – the most important areas:

• Local storage: bootable RAID10 recommended

• SSD: Intel Rapid Storage Drivers & disable LPM – Link Power Management

• NTFS, blocksize: 4k for OS, 64k for database files

• Use IOMeter for realistic performance testing

http://www.iometer.org/doc/downloads.html

http://www.iometer.org/doc/downloads.html



Component Storage System Role Requirement

SQL-Server instance Database Data File 200 IOPS, 64kB,

random read/write

SQL-Server instance Database Log File 400 IOPS, 64kB, sequential write

SQL-Server instance tempDB Data Files

(1 per assigned CPU core)

400 IOPS, 64kB,

random read/write

SQL-Server instance tempDB Log File

400 IOPS, 64kB, sequential write

SMP Server OS, NSCAP

200 IOPS, 4kB,

random read/write

Operating System & IIS




• Turn off NTFS file encryption & compression

• Disk Defrag on SMP Install Point – It does matter!

• Disable Indexing Service

• Exclude from AV-scanning: *.MDF,*.LDF,*.TMP,*.NSE

• Optimize performance for Background Services



• Stop any unneeded services and set them to „manual“



• Set IP Helper service to „manual“ if no IPv6 is needed

• Optimize TCP/IP via „TCP-Optimizer“ for LAN-Speed

http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php






• IIS-Settings

• Disable IIS-logging if not needed

• Disable Web-Debugging (HOWTO6940)

• Set Default AppPool to „Classic Pipeline Mode“

• Split AppPool in dedicated pools per each area

• ActivityCenter

• SoftwarePortal

• NS-Agent

• InventoryRuleManagement

• TaskManagement



AppPool configuration via script:



Tuning ASP (machine.config) in two places: (TECH193594)

..\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG

..\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\CONFIG

<runtime/>

<runtime>

<generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false"/>

</runtime>

SQL Server


SQL Server


• Use enough RAM and assign it to the SQL instance

• Keep 3.5GB for the Operating system

• Use different disks for DB-data, tempDB and DB-logs

• Run IOMeter for IOPS testing

SQL Server


Configure rights for SQL-account and Altiris-Service-user:

SQL Server


Use AWE to allocate memory:

SQL Server


• Optimize for Ad-Hoc workload = True (SQL 2008+)

• Max. Degree of Parallelism = 2

SQL Server


TempDB configuration

• Recovery Model = simple

• 1 data file per assigned CPU core for the instance

• Exact same size for each file (use dbcc shrinkfile)

• Option „Auto Update Statistics Asynchronously“ ON

• Option „Arithmetic Abort Enabled“ ON

SQL Server


SQL Server


Symantec CMDB configuration

• Plan 7MB per managed node

• Recovery Model = simple

• Option „Auto Update Statistics Asynchronously“ ON

• Option „Arithmetic Abort Enabled“ ON

• Ensure Disable Auto Shrink is disabled

• Create SQL Maintenance Plan! – Commonly missed!

SMP Console Settings




No more than 500 client Task Agents on the SMP



Manage > Console > Enhanced View:



Managed Deliver Settings, disable Verbose Logging



Configure Resource membership Update



Task Agent Settings:

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