Our setup is a Windows Server 2008 R2 with Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager 12.1.6 RU6 (12.1.6188.6000).
At times (as in not right now), the manager application can be extremely slow, especially to log in. One attempt can be upwards to 10 minutes before the application responds with wrong password (if it was wrong) or lets me in. It never times out.
This is most likely due to the database being written to constantly, having in a month consumed almost 1TB of I/O operations. I don't understand why it's doing this.
I heard this got fixed in an earlier update like a year ago and we updated, but it's still going on.
We recently upgraded the boot drive to an SSD, and want to avoid unneccessary write cycles, and moving the sem5.db to another drive seems to be a real hassle.
The best would be to move everything over to our separate SQL server, but having to fully backup and reinstall the manager just to do that is just bad practice.