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This white paper is the second of two closely-related white papers that describe IBM® Enterprise Content Management (ECM) scale-out case studies for Linux® on z Systems®. This white paper examines the setup, tuning, and performance aspects of an ECM system that is implemented as a virtual environment under z/VM®. The ECM system is based on the IBM FileNet® P8 5.2.1 and IBM Content Navigator 2.0.3 applications.

The two related white papers can be summarized as follows:
  • Scale-Out Case Study (Part 1) - Single ECM Node with XFS and Spectrum Scale 4.2 (the first white paper), which focuses on a single ECM node with an XFS file system or IBM Spectrum Scale as FileNet File Storage Area. The setup, tuning and performance analysis of the ECM components and IBM Spectrum Scale are described for the system under test (SUT).
  • Scale-Out Case Study (Part 2) - Multiple ECM Nodes with IBM WebSphere Application Server Cluster and Spectrum Scale 4.2 (this white paper), which focuses on the scale-out to multiple ECM nodes in a WebSphere® Application Server (WAS) Cluster, and the effectiveness of IBM Spectrum Scale as a distributed parallel filesystem. In addition, the Spectrum Scale cluster configurations Shared Disk (SD) and Network Shared Disk (NSD) are tested.

Authors

IBM Linux end-to-end Performance team: Thomas Weber, Dr. Juergen Doelle

IBM Spectrum Scale team: Tomer Perry

IBM ECM team: Michael V. Bordash, Nhan Hoang, Dave Royer

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The web-links referred in this paper are up-to-date as of June, 2016.