In this chapter, you learned what we must take into account when we think of the hardware, especially the storage, to use with Zabbix. A good discussion of RAID types can be initiated and can guarantee many hours of arguments from all sides. But without a doubt, a large environment needs to list a kind of RAID (Zabbix SIA indicates RAID10) to ensure high performance. High-performance shared storage should also be considered if the environment is actually quite large.

You also realized that you can't consider only the amount of hosts or only the vps to classify the size of the environment and then set the hardware to suit it.

Don't forget this; to get the best performance from Zabbix, we need to understand how the information is flowing into it, and adjust the settings to control the flow of data (reading and writing).

An environment that is not measured can't be controlled. The secret of Zabbix performance is directly connected to the control of the flow. In the next chapter, we'll talk about operating systems and how to adjust some small, but important, parameters that matter a lot when it comes to performance.