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Table 6-6
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Operating System Settings for HiPath 5000
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| Optimizing the physical memory
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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.
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| Go to Start/Settings/Network and Dial-up Connections/LAN Connection: Properties - File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks: Properties and select the Balance option.
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| Optimizing the virtual memory
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| Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel/System: Advanced - Performance Options: Virtual Memory: Change to set the maximum size of the swap file for all drives to 512 MB.
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| 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 extended during operation.
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| If the operating system crashes (blue screen), it creates a file containing 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.
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| This may cause certain services on the HiPath 5000 server to experience problems in starting up. To combat this problem, go to Start/Settings/Control Panel/System: Advanced - Startup and Recovery, Save debug information and select the option None.
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| All other options are viable. The Auto restart option forces an automatic restart in the event of a system crash, thus considerably increasing the server's availability.
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| 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 or Remove Programs: Internet Information Service (IIS) - Details: and deactivate SMTP Service .
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