302 WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide
10.3.10 System tuning
Bottlenecks also occur at the system level. To prevent these bottlenecks, tune your storage,
network, and operating system adequately. The following aspects can potentially affect the
performance:
Storage
If your applications run much I/O, directly by using read/write instructions or indirectly by
using the database, check the storage box response times. Several storage improvements
take place at the operating system, network, or storage level:
– Increase the queue depth of disks
– Adjust the number of possible paths to reach a disk
– Reorganize data on the storage box
– Use high performance disks
A high performance disk example is a solid-state drive ...