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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.

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.
  - 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.

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.

Important: The official hardware recommendations were prepared with assumption that the BigFix Inventory server is running on a dedicated physical server or servers. If virtual machines are used, the specified hardware (processor, RAM, or disk space) must be exclusively dedicated to those virtual machines – not shared with any others.

Even if you meet the recommended requirements, the application might work slowly because of issues with the underlying hardware. The issues might be caused by, for example, sharing resources with other machines within the virtual environment. You can run some diagnostic methods to ensure that the underlying infrastructure is in good shape.

Make sure that you configured the VM Manager Tool efficiently. For more information, see: Best practices for configuring VM managers.