Tuning and the resulting system capacity can be affected by many factors, including the characteristics of the load on the system and the hardware used, including servers, disk subsystems, network topology, and more. Therefore the objective of this paper is not necessarily to recommend specific values, but rather to make you aware of the parameters used in the IBM® Connections Version 5.5 performance benchmarks.

This document does, however, provide tuning values specific to the hardware, topology and workloads used for IBM® benchmarks. With this in mind, administrators can use these values as an initial reference subject before conducting a formal sizing and tuning exercise specific to an individual customer's environment.