Index

This is a list of all the posts in the Data Platforms’ capacity planning and performance series in order. Also a general list of my other posts. I will update as new posts in the series are added.

You will notice that I wrote some posts before IRIS was released and refer to Caché. I will revisit the posts over time, but in the meantime, Generally, the advice for configuration is the same for Caché and IRIS. Some command names may have changed; the most obvious example is that anywhere you see the ^pButtons command, you can replace it with ^SystemPerformance.

While some posts are updated to preserve links, others will be marked as strikethrough to indicate that the post is legacy. Generally, I will say, "See: some other post" if it is appropriate.

Capacity Planning and Performance Series

Generally, posts build on previous ones, but you can also just dive into subjects that look interesting.

• Part 1 - Getting started on the Journey, collecting metrics.
• Part 2 - Looking at the metrics we collected.
• Part 3 - Focus on CPU.
• Part 4 - Looking at memory.
• Part 5 - Monitoring with SNMP.
• Part 6 - Caché storage IO profile.
• Part 7 - ECP for performance, scalability and availability.
• Part 8 - Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Capacity and Performance Planning
• Part 9 - Caché VMware Best Practice Guide
• Part 10 - VM Backups and IRIS freeze/thaw scripts
• Part 11 - Virtualizing large databases - VMware cpu capacity planning

Other Posts

This is a collection of posts generally related to Architecture I have on the Community.

• Access IRIS database ODBC or JDBC using Python.
• Ansible modules and IRIS demo.
• AWS Capacity Planning Review Example.
• Using an LVM stripe to increase AWS EBS IOPS and Throughput.
• YASPE - Parse and chart InterSystems Caché pButtons and InterSystems IRIS SystemPerformance files for quick performance analysis of Operating System and IRIS metrics.
• SAM - Hacks and Tips for set up and adding metrics from non-IRIS targets
• Monitoring InterSystems IRIS Using Built-in REST API - Using Prometheus format.
• Example: Review Monitor Metrics From InterSystems IRIS Using Default REST API
• InterSystems Data Platforms and performance – how to update pButtons.
• Extracting pButtons data to a csv file for easy charting.
• Provision a Caché application using Ansible - Part 1.
• Windows, Caché and virus scanners.
• ECP Magic.
• Markdown workflow for creating Community posts.
• Yape - Yet another pButtons extractor (and automatically create charts) See: YASPE.
• How long does it take to encrypt a database?
• Minimum Monitoring and Alerting Solution
• LVM PE Striping to maximize Hyper-Converged storage throughput
• Unpacking pButtons with Yape - update notes and quick guides
• Decoding Intel processor models reported by Windows
• AWS storage. High write IOPS. Compare gp3 and io2
• [Video] Best Practices for InterSystems IRIS System Performance in the Cloud

Murray Oldfield
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