Host hardware

The WebSphere® Application Server tests were performed with a customer-like environment. This is the server hardware that was used.

One logical partition (LPAR) on a 16-way IBM® System z9®, type 2094-S18 equipped with:
  • Eight physical CPUs, dedicated
  • 12 GB memory
  • 2 GB expanded memory
  • One OSA-Express 2 Gb Ethernet card
  • Eight FICON® Express™ channels for z/VM®
  • Eight FICON Express channels for the guests
One LPAR on a 16-way IBM System z10™ type 2097-E26 equipped with:
  • Eight physical CPUs, dedicated
  • 12 GB memory
  • 2 GB expanded memory
  • One OSA-Express 2 Gb Ethernet card
  • Eight FICON Express channels for z/VM
  • Eight FICON Express channels for the guests