System setup for the WebSphere Application Server performance tests

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To emulate a customer-like environment we needed to setup our network, the WebSphere® Studio Workload Simulator client, the workload, and configure the xpram device for one test case.

Network setup

Our network setup used an isolated network connection via OSA card for connecting to the clients and a HiperSockets™ network connection between the WebSphere Application Server and the database (see Figure 1).

Figure 1. Overview on network setup for the performance test environment

This chart shows that this network setup used two private network connections for connecting to the clients and the database.