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Tuning performance
Learn how to plan the infrastructure of BigFix Inventory and to configure the application server to achieve optimal performance. The following guidelines are applicable in big data environments as well as in smaller environments that are running on low-performance hardware.
Infrastructure
The main factor that affects the performance of the BigFix Inventory server is the performance of the underlying infrastructure on which the application server and the DB2 database are running. You must ensure that the recommended requirements are met.
Storage performance requirements
To ensure good performance of BigFix Inventory, it is essential to have good storage performance on the database server computer. The storage performance of the BigFix Inventory server alone is not that important.

Tuning performance
Learn how to plan the infrastructure of BigFix Inventory and to configure the application server to achieve optimal performance. The following guidelines are applicable in big data environments as well as in smaller environments that are running on low-performance hardware.
- Infrastructure
  The main factor that affects the performance of the BigFix Inventory server is the performance of the underlying infrastructure on which the application server and the DB2 database are running. You must ensure that the recommended requirements are met.
  - Memory performance requirements
    RAM performance metrics such as seek time or memory bandwidth, are strictly dependent on the memory type, which is linked with the processor type.
  - Storage performance requirements
    To ensure good performance of BigFix Inventory, it is essential to have good storage performance on the database server computer. The storage performance of the BigFix Inventory server alone is not that important.
    - Running hard disk tests
      Learn some diagnostic methods and use them to ensure that the hardware infrastructure is in good shape. On Linux™, you can use the hdparm and dd commands or the Bonnie++ application to determine the hard disk write rate. You can also use the iostat command to determine average disk usage.
  - Using relays to increase the performance of BigFix
    To take advantage of the speed and scalability that is offered by BigFix, it is often necessary to tune the settings of the BigFix deployment.
- Setting up scans and import
  Learn how to improve the scanning and importing activities to optimize the performance in your infrastructure.
- Additional tasks for improving performance
  Learn about additional tasks that you might want to perform to improve the performance in your infrastructure.
- Tuning performance in medium and large environments
  You can learn the possible causes of the most common performance issues in medium and large environments. Follow the tips and the known solutions to these issues to keep the system in good shape and avoid performance problems.
- REST API considerations
  You can use BigFix Inventory REST API to retrieve large amounts of data that is related to computer systems, software instances, and license usage in your environment. Such information can then be passed to other applications for further processing and analysis.

Storage performance requirements

To ensure good performance of BigFix Inventory, it is essential to have good storage performance on the database server computer. The storage performance of the BigFix Inventory server alone is not that important.

The recommended average disk speed for the database server computer is specified in the following table.

Table 1. Recommended average disk speed for the database server computer in specific environmentsRecommended average disk speed for the database server computer in specific environments
Deployment Size	Disk Speed
Small (up to 5000 endpoints)	100 MB/sec
Medium (5000 - 30000 endpoints)	250 MB/sec
Large (more than 30000 endpoints)	400 MB/sec