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An Introduction to WebSphere Application Server Performance Tuning Toolkit

Uncover performance bottlenecks in your application server infrastructure using this easy to use toolkit

Shishir Narain (nshishir@in.ibm.com), IT Architect, IBM

Shishir Narain is an Open Group certified Master IT Specialist with deep skills in middleware technologies. He works for IBM Software Services for WebSphere, an IBM labs based team focused on providing quality WebSphere consulting to clients. He has worked for the last 14 years leading and delivering software projects for large enterprises as a solution developer and architect. . He holds a Master of Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Wang Yu (wyuyuw@cn.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM

Wang Yu (Edward) is a software engineer at the IBM China Software Development Lab in Beijing. He is a member of WebSphere Application Server SVT team. He is also interested in WebSphere Application Server performance analysis, performance tuning, problem diagnosis, and high availability.

Tao Zhang (zhangtbj@cn.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM

Zhang Tao (Jordan) joined IBM in 2009. He works in IBM China Software Development Lab WebSphere Application Server SVT team in Beijing. He is interested in WebSphere Migration, Intelligent Management, and high availability.

Summary: WebSphere® Application Server is one of the key components of enterprise architecture, and performance bottlenecks can affect multiple applications. WebSphere Application Server Performance Tuning Toolkit is an easy to use tool that can be used to uncover performance issues with WebSphere Application Server. This toolkit is very useful in ensuring that you get the maximum out of your infrastructure.

Date: 17 Oct 2012
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (1019 KB | 18 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Overview

Performance Tuning is essential in any enterprise, helping to ensure maximum returns for the IT investment. Besides aiding in end users getting the best response time, it also helps to determine the maximum load the application can safely support.

WebSphere Application Server is a critical component of enterprise JEE application infrastructures, and tuning this middleware is critical in achieving the best performance.

This tutorial introduces WebSphere Application Server Performance Tuning Toolkit (hereafter called PTT) and demonstrates how it can be used for uncovering performance bottlenecks and for tuning the WebSphere Application Server infrastructure. It assumes that you have basic knowledge of WebSphere Application Server and performance testing.

Before we delve more into WebSphere Application Server performance tuning, a small digression so that we don't miss the forest for the trees. Middleware tuning is only one aspect and should be seen holistically with capacity planning and tuning for the entire software stack (operating system, application, database, client/browser, and so on). This end-to-end vision of ensuring optimal capacity is performance engineering -- a nice topic for another day.

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