With computers using more processors and, thus, becoming ever more powerful, virtualization is a topic of growing interest. Although virtualization can be used for many different purposes, it is most commonly used to improve hardware utilization.
Part of every application's main objective is to achieve performance. Performance enhancement and optimization is a continuous activity for any application, and performance plays a very important role in any application.
Parts 1 and 2 of this series introduced the IDS OpenAdmin Tool (OAT), a Web-based interface for administering Informix Dynamic Server, and showed how to migrate from the Informix Server Administrator. OAT offers many advantages: