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Performance Architecture

The computing facilities in many companies typically comprise a large and diverse collection of machines spread over a wide geographic area. The Systems Performance architecture supports such a distributed environment by providing high levels of scalability and enabling easy configuration across many thousands of machines. Furthermore, because it is often desirable to define logical groupings within the enterprise and manage each of these groups independently, the architecture implements the concept of multiple configuration domains.

The following figure shows the main components in the Systems Performance architecture. See the following pages for further details of these components.

Performance Architecture Schematic

The architecture of Systems Performance has two main functions: