Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
If you are using the default SQL Express database included with WhatsUp Gold:
Ensure that a full 1 GB of memory is available to the SQL Server process.
Note: SQL Server Express is limited to 1 GB of memory and 1 CPU.
Defragment the SQL Server data directory hard-drive.
If the WhatsUp database file becomes fragmented, this can decrease database
performance. Before defragmenting, you need to stop the WhatsUp services and
applications as well as the SQL Server services to allow defragmentation utilities to
operate on SQL's database files.
Move the WhatsUp Gold database files.
If you have a hard drive on a separate disk from your operating system drive, you can
improve file performance by relocating the WhatsUp database files to this separate hard
drive.
Note: Moving files between different partitions on the same hard drive will not increase file
system performance.
Install a faster hard drive.
Because SQL Express does not benefit from memory improvements (beyond the 1GB
limit), increasing file I/O performance provides a decrease in SQL statement execution
time.
If you are using a non-default SQL configuration, such as SQL Standard installed on
another computer:
Add additional memory.
The single biggest performance improvement available to any database application is
additional memory.
Important: Be sure to consider the memory limitation of the edition of SQL you have
installed as well as any limitations imposed by the operating system.
Reduce resource contention.
If the WhatsUp database is located in a SQL instance shared by other databases, WhatsUp
has to compete with other applications for database resources. Consider moving
WhatsUp Gold's databases to a dedicated SQL instance.
Improve network efficiency.
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