Hardware equipment and software environment for the z/VM virtualization tests

Server hardware

Host

One LPAR on a 16-way IBM® System z9® Enterprise Class (EC), Model 2094-S18, equipped with:

• 8 physical CPUs, dedicated
• 20 GB central memory
• 2 GB expanded memory
• OSA Express 2 Ethernet card
• 2 FICON® Express Channels
• 5 FCP Channels 2 Gb/sec
• 1 CEX2C Crypto card

Network setup

• Web Servers and client workstations on a 1 Gb Ethernet LAN
• All Linux® guests also used a z/VM® HiperSockets guest LAN, 24 K frame size

Storage server setup

IBM System storage DS8000®, Disk Drive Modules = 73 GB each/15000 RPMs

For the operating system and applications on 15 Linux guest systems:

• 30 ECKD mod9 spread over one rank/LCU
• 2 FICON paths

For the database data disks:

• 5 SCSI disks over 5 FCP channels/ranks. 1 channel per database system. 10 GB each from the same DS8000 as the ECKD disks.

Server software

z/VM guests setup:

15 Linux guests

Table 2. z/VM guests setup

Hostname	lnweb(1-5)	lnwas(1-5)	lnudb(1-5)
Function	Web Server	WebSphere Application Server	DB2® UDB Server
Number of virtual CPs	1	2	1
Defined memory	1 GB	2 GB	2 GB
Crypto enabled	Yes	No	No

Client hardware

• 1 x 2.4 GHz H20 Intel Blade with 4 GB RAM (works as the Trade workload generator)
• IBM eServer™ xSeries model x335, 2x2.8 GHz, Intel Xeon 2 GB, 72 GB (works as a Trade controller and to gather the Trade statistics from the workload generators)

Client Software