Performance Tuning Guide for DLP

Products

• Data Loss Prevention

Issue/Introduction

The Performance Tuning Guide provided Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) customers with recommended detection server settings for optimizing performance on 64-bit systems.

Although the recommendations in that guide were applicable to all supported versions of Symantec Data Loss Prevention, it has not been updated since verison 12.5.

Environment

Supported versions of DLP

Cause

You wish to know how to modify or tune your Detection Servers for optimal performance and usage.

Resolution

The original Performance Tuning Guide is no longer available, but the below pages on the TechDocs site provide the relevant information which was part of the previous guide.

Beginning with this overview of sizing:

• Deployment Sizing Considerations.

From this page, you should also review the links to the different enterprise-level hardware sizing guides:

• Hardware Requirements for Servers

The content at this page specifically covers Advanced Server Settings which are modified when increasing the Content Inspection Size on your Detection Server:

• Guidelines for Increasing System Memory on Detection Servers

 

Additional Information

For specific Detection Server types, see the following pages for more information.

Description of sizing guidelines for Network Monitor, Network Prevent for Email and Network Prevent for Web:

• About network performance sizing guidelines

For Network Discover:

• Tuning Network Discover Scans