WebSphere Portal 8.0 Tuning Guide

IBM just published their tuning guide for WebSphere Portal 8.0.  There have been lots of improvements made to Portal 8, especially in re-architecting the JCR database for WCM.  If you have a Portal 8.0 installation or are planning to implement Portal 8.0, this tuning guide should be a must read for your team.

The tuning guide is over 130 pages long and covers just about every area you could think of to tune. It also covers WCM, database, http server, and OS tuning.  I’m not aware of any other portal vendor with this extensive of a guide to portal tuning.  To highlight the amount of information in the guide, as well as highlight all the areas of tuning you can perform on Portal, I’ve listed the 32 tables included in the guide below.

Table 1 Base Portal Maximum JVM Heap Sizes

Table 2 JVM Large Pages Support

Table 3 JVM Nursery Sizes for Benchmarks

Table 4 JVM Shared Class Cache Sizes for Benchmarks

Table 5 Solaris JVM Settings

Table 6 VMM Context Pool Settings

Table 7 VMM Attribute Cache Settings

Table 8 VMM Search Results Cache Settings

Table 9 Navigation Service Settings

Table 10 Registry Service Settings

Table 11 CacheManager Service Settings for Base Portal

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Table 12 JDK & WAS Fixes

Table 13 DB2 z/OS Bufferpool Settings

Table 14 Oracle Database Tuning

Table 15 IBM Tivoli Directory Server Settings

Table 16 IBM HTTP Server Settings

Table 17 Reverse Proxy Settings

Table 18 AIX Network Settings

Table 19 Linux Network Settings

Table 20 Windows Network Settings

Table 21 Solaris Network Settings

Table 22 z/OS System Tuning

Table 23 DB2 Database Settings for Many Pages

Table 24 Cache Manager Service Settings for Many Pages

Table 25 Web Content Manager JVM Heap Sizes

Table 26 Web Content Manager JDBC Data Source Pool Sizes

Table 27 WCM Object Cache Settings

Table 28 Cache Manager Service Settings for WCM

Table 29 Navigation Service Settings for WCM

Table 30 Personalization Service Setting for WCM Rendering

Table 31 CacheManagerService Settings for managed pages

Table 32 HTTP Server Cluster Settings