Software system setup

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The operating systems, middleware, and workloads that were used in the test scenario, are described in this topic.

Table 1. Software elements used in the test scenario
Operating systems
Hypervisor

z Systems™

 IBM z/VM® Version 6 Release 3.0, service level 1401 (64-bit)

(Product number 5741-A07)

  • installed in z Systems LPAR
Guest operating system

z Systems

 Linux™ on z Systems

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (390x), SLES 11, SP3

  • installed in z/VM virtual systems
Operating system

client system

 Linux for System x

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (x86_64)

  • installed on System x (x86_64) server
Middleware
Oracle Database Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 – 64bit
  • installed under Linux on z Systems
WebSphere Application Server IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, 8.5.5.1

Build Number: cf011341.03

Build Date: 10/18/13

  • installed under Linux on z Systems
WebServer IBM HTTP Server (IHS) Server

Server version: IBM_HTTP_Server/8.5.5.1 (Unix)

Apache version: 2.2.8 (with additional fixes)

Server built: Jul 11 2013 18:01:24

Build level: IHS85/webIHS1327.01

  • installed under Linux on z Systems
DB/2 DB2 v10.5.0.2, s131001, IP23538 and Fix Pack 2.
  • installed under Linux on z Systems
Test suites
Fio Fio 2.1.7 Committed 2014-03-31.
Daytrader IBM WebSphere Application Server Samples

DayTrader 3.0.7 (No Caching)

Full EE6 Spec Compliant for WebSphere 8.5.5.0

Date: 20130925
SwingBench Version 2.5.0.909
Uperf Version 1.0.4

For a complete description of the setup and configuration of the hardware and software stack see https://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/index.html.

Guest sizing

Table 2 shows the virtual system configuration that was used in the test scenario.

Table 2. Virtual system configuration used in the test scenario
Workload
# Type Level Component or variant # CPUs Memory
1 Database Database server 4 300 GiB
2 WebSphere

Transactional Workload

 medium IHS 1 700 MiB
3 WAS 2 4 GiB
4 DB2 1 2 GiB
5 high IHS 1 700 MiB
6 WAS 4 4 GiB
7 DB2 2 2 GiB
8 File system medium page cached 2 16 GiB
9 direct I/O 2 16 GiB
10 high page cached 4 16 GiB
11 direct I/O 4 16 GiB
12 Java

Transactional Workload

 high 2 4 GiB
13 medium 1 4 GiB
14 Network medium client 1 1 GiB
15 server 1 1 GiB
16 high client 2 1 GiB
For a complete description of the setup and configuration of the workloads, see: 
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-systems?topic=papers-zvm-63-resource-overcommitment