Overview of Enterprise Server Performance
Tuning
You can signicantly improve performance of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and of
applications deployed to it by adjusting a few deployment and server conguration settings.
However, it is important to understand the environment and performance goals. An optimal
conguration for a production environment might not be optimal for a development
environment.
This chapter discusses the following topics:
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“Process Overview” on page 17
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“Understanding Operational Requirements” on page 19
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“General Tuning Concepts” on page 23
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“Further Information” on page 26
Process Overview
The following table outlines the overall administration process, and shows where performance
tuning ts in the sequence.
TABLE1–1 PerformanceTuning Roadmap
Step DescriptionofTask LocationofInstructions
1 Design: Decide on the high-availabilitytopology
and set upthe ApplicationServer and, if you are
using HADBfor session persistence,
high-availability database (HADB) systems.
Deployment Planning Guide
2 Capacity Planning: Makesure the systems have
sucient resources toperform well.
Deployment Planning Guide
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