System Options - Teradata Director Program

Teradata® Director Program Reference - 17.20

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Lake
VMware
Product
Teradata Director Program
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
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2023-11-17
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

When using channel devices to communicate with the database, system performance is affected by the load on the block multiplexer channel connected to the database.

For the best system performance, a channel that is used by the database should be dedicated to devices to that database. However, if research at your site indicates that a channel is not overloaded, the block multiplexer channel can be shared with other devices, such as disk or tape devices.

It is the responsibility of a site to monitor channel utilization to determine if it is high enough to degrade the performance on the database. Note that an overloaded channel results in I/O delays for other devices on that channel.