Siemens HiPath 3000 Series - Optimizing Operating System Settings; Windows Server 2000

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Optimizing Operating System Settings
6.9 Optimizing Operating System Settings
6.9.1 Windows Server 2000
This section describes how you can optimize the Windows 2000 Server operating system for
the implementation of HiPath 5000.
Table 6-6 Operating System Settings for HiPath 5000
Component Description
Optimizing the physical
memory
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.
Go to Start/Settings/Network and Dial-up Connec-
tions/LAN Connection: Properties – File and Printer
Sharing for Microsoft Networks: Properties and select
the Balance option.
Optimizing the virtual
memory
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.
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.
Optimizing availability 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 combat this problem, go to Start/
Settings/Control Panel/System: Advanced – Startup
and Recovery, Save debug information and select the option
None.
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.
SMTP service 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 de-
activate SMTP Service .