Achieving optimal performance by your Filr deployment requires that you do the following:
Assess system needs and plan to meet those needs as outlined in Section 3.0, Planning a Large, Expandable (Clustered) Deployment.
Deploy Filr according to your plan by following the basic order outlined in Section 4.0, Setting Up a Large, Expandable (Clustered) Deployment.
Adjust and tune system settings and resources on an ongoing basis as workload details become clearer and Filr usage increases.
Ultimately, each Filr deployment is unique. Therefore, we can only offer the general guidelines in the sections that follow.
Section 5.1, Ensure That Hardware Recommendations Are Met or Exceeded
Section 5.2, Ensure Optimal Network and Disk Bandwidth for /vashare
Section 5.7, Understand How Data and Synchronization Affect Performance
Section 5.8, Bring Net Folder and Home Directory Users Online in Phases
Section 5.9, Rely on Ganglia for Help with Optimizing RAM and CPU Allocation