Hardware and software configuration

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To perform the JSSE study, a test environment on an IBM® System z® was created.

IBM System z hardware and software – logical partition

Two logical partitions (LPARs) on a 64-way IBM System z10™ EC, 4.4 GHz, model 2097-E64, are used. They are equipped as described in Table 1.
Table 1. JSSE study: Server hardware
LPAR Description
LPAR 1 - JSSE Server
  • Four physical CPUs dedicated
  • 4 GB central storage
  • One 1 Gb OSA feature for external connectivity
  • HiperSockets™ connection to LPAR 2
  • Two processors of an IBM Crypto Express2 card in accelerator mode (CEX2A)
  • CPACF (an unpriced feature of the IBM System z processor)
LPAR 2 - JSSE Client
  • Four physical CPUs dedicated
  • 4 GB central storage
  • One 1 Gb OSA feature for external connectivity
  • HiperSockets connection to LPAR 1
  • Two processors of an IBM Crypto Express2 card in accelerator mode (CEX2A)
  • CPACF (an unpriced feature of the IBM System z processor)

IBM System z software

The IBM System z software is described in Table 2.
Table 2. JSSE study: Server software
Product Version and Level
IBM Java™ SDK 64-bit for IBM Linux® 1.5 SR 7, SR 9, Java 1.6 SR 4
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 10, SP 2 64-bit
Workload driver program N/A