Hardware and software configuration for the WebSphere Application Server performance tests
To perform our WebSphere Application Server tests, we created a customer-like environment. We configured the hardware, software, network, and storage server.
Hardware and software
The following section details the hardware and software we used for our Linux® on System z® test runs.
Server hardware
- IBM® eServer™ zSeries server
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Two LPARs on a 16-way IBM System z9® Enterprise Class (z9® EC), model 2094-S18, configured with:
- LPAR 1 (WebSphere® Application
Server on Linux)
- 4 physical CPUs, dedicated
- 4 GB central memory
- LPAR 2 (UDB database on z/OS® or Linux)
- 4 physical CPUs, dedicated
- 12 GB central memory
- 2 OSA Express 2 Ethernet cards
- 4 dedicated ESCON Express Channels
- LPAR 1 (WebSphere® Application
Server on Linux)
- Network setup
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- 2 - 4 client workstations on a 1 Gb Ethernet LAN
- 2 OSA Express 2 Ethernet cards on IBM System z, or
- One OSA Express 2 Ethernet card and one HiperSockets connection
- Storage server setup
- 2105-F20, Disk Drive Modules - 18.2 GB each/10 K RPMs
- 12 ECKD mod3s spread over 1 rank/LCU
- 4 ESCON paths
Server software
| Product | Version/Level |
|---|---|
| IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition (64-bit) for Linux on System z | DB2® v8.1.0.104 FixPak 11 |
| IBM DB2 9 for Linux Unix and Windows | DB2 v9.1.0.0 |
| IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition (64-bit) for z/OS | DB2 v8.1.0.104 FixPak 11 |
| IBM DB2 v9 for z/OS | DB2 v9.1.0.0 FixPak 0 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (64-bit) | SLES9 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (64-bit) | SLES10 |
| WebSphere Application Server (31-bit) | 6.1 |
| WebSphere Application Server (64-bit) | 6.1 |
| z/OS | v 1.8 CB02 Build July 21, 2006 + MAPMVS fix |
Client hardware
- 1 IBM eServer xSeries model 6565-2BU with a 667MHz Pentium III
- 1 xSeries model 6792-MHU with a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4
Client Software
Table 2 shows the client software used.
| Product | Version/Level |
|---|---|
| xSeries model 6565-2BU and 6792-MHU | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | release 9 |
| Trade workload | 6.1 |