This article contains a list of resources that explain tuning guidelines for shared or clustered file systems:

• Shared File Systems: Determining the Best Choice for your Distributed SAS® Foundation Applications (2025)
• Performance and Tuning Considerations for SAS® using IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) on the IBM FlashSystem A9000R
• Performance and Tuning Considerations for SAS® on RHEL using IBM Spectrum Scale™ (GPFS) on Elastic Storage Server GL4
• Performance and Tuning Considerations on Amazon Web Services with SAS® 9.4 Using IBM Spectrum Scale™
• Performance and Tuning Considerations for SAS® using Veritas InfoScale™ Storage 7.0 on the EMC XtremIO™ All-Flash Array

For a complete list of papers useful for troubleshooting system performance problems, see SAS KB0036235.