Optimizing Operating System Settings - Siemens HiPath 3000 Service Manual

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Optimizing Operating System Settings

This section describes how you can optimize the Windows 2000 Server operating system for
the implementation of HiPath 5000.
No information is available on how to optimize Windows Server 2003.
Table 6-7 Operating System Settings for HiPath 5000
Component
Optimizing the physical
memory
Optimizing the virtual
memory
Optimizing availability
SMTP service
Personal Call Manager and Internet Information Server
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Windows 2000 Server is normally optimized for maximum throughput
as a file server. For a HiPath 5000 server, however, significantly less
memory is needed for the system-wide disk cache.
For this select the Balance Load option under Start/Settings/
Network and DC Connections/LAN Connection: Proper-
ties – File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Net-
works: Properties
To optimize the virtual memory, enter 512 MB as the Total paging
file size for all drives under Start/Settings/Control Panel/
System: Advanced – Performance Settings: Virtual
Memory: Change.
The same values should be entered for the virtual memory's upper
and lower thresholds so that the paging file does not have to be ex-
tended during operation.
If the operating system crashes (blue screen), it creates a file con-
taining debugging information from the paging file the next time the
system starts. If the size of this file is the same size as the system's
physical memory, almost all of the virtual memory will be used for
generating this file during system startup.
This may cause certain services on the HiPath 5000 server to expe-
rience problems in starting up. To recover this problem, you should
go to Start/Settings/Control Panel – System – Advanced
– Startup and Recovery and select the option none under Write De-
bugging Information.
All other options are viable. The Auto restart option forces an auto-
matic restart in the event of a system crash, thus considerably in-
creasing the server's availability.
The operating system's SMTP service should always be disabled as
HiPath 5000 provides its own SMTP link which may conflict with the
operating system's service. To do this, go to Start/Settings/
Control Panel: Software – Add/Remove Windows Com-
ponents : Internet Information Service (IIS) – De-
tails: Remove SMTP Service.
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Optimizing Operating System Settings
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