Configuration and test environment

This section provides information necessary for setting up the configuration and test environment.

z/VM guest configuration
This is the configuration used for a z/VM® guest.
Test environment
The test environment consisted of an IBM® System z® and an IBM® xSeries® server as the client.
Firewall Rules
These are the rules used to govern the two firewalls used in this study.
Workload description
The Trade performance benchmark is a workload developed by IBM® for characterizing performance of the WebSphere® Application Server.

Parent topic: Tuning WebSphere Application Server Cluster with Caching