Hardware equipment and software environment for the WebSphere environment performance tests

Server Hardware

Host

On one LPAR on a 16-way IBM® System z9™, type 2094-S18 (System z9-109, Model S18), equipped with:

• 8 physical CPUs, dedicated
• 26 GB memory
• 5 GB expanded memory
• OSA Express 2 gigabit Ethernet card (OSA code level 0805)

z/VM® guests setup:

MTU sizes:

• QDIO - 1492
• HiperSockets™ - 16,384

Table 1. Guest configuration

Host Name	IP address	Operating System	Kernel Level	# Virtual CPUs	Memory	Function
LNX00080	10.10.80.10 192.168.30.10	SLES9 SP1	2.6.5-7.139-s390x	2 (4)	2 GB	WebSphere® Application Server
LNX00081	10.10.80.200 192.168.30.200	SLES9 SP2	2.6.5-7.191-s390x	1 (2)	2 GB	DB2® UDB
LNX00082	10.10.80.80 192.168.30.80 192.168.30.82 (cluster address)	SLES9 SP1	2.6.5-7.139-s390 (31-bit)	1	1.5 GB	WebSphere Load Balancer
LNX00083	10.10.80.90 192.168.40.90	SLES9 SP1	2.6.5-7.139-s390x	1	2 GB	Caching Proxy
LNX00084	10.10.80.100 192.168.30.100	SLES9 SP3	2.6.5-7.244-s390x	2	1 GB	Web server
LNX00086	10.10.80.11 192.168.30.11	SLES9 SP1	2.6.5-7.139-s390x	2	2 GB	WebSphere Application Server
LNX00087	10.10.80.12 192.168.30.12	SLES9 SP1	2.6.5-7.139-s390x	2	2 GB	WebSphere Application Server
LNX00088	10.10.80.13 192.168.30.13	SLES9 SP1	2.6.5-7.139-s390x	2	2 GB	WebSphere Application Server
LNX00090	10.10.80.21 192.168.30.21 192.168.40.21	SLES9 SP3	2.6.5-7.244-s390x	1	0.5 GB	Firewall 1
LNX00091	10.10.80.22 192.168.40.22 10.10.60.22	SLES9 SP3	2.6.5-7.244-s390x	1	0.5 GB	Firewall 2

Note: We did not have LNX00085 or LNX00089 hosts.

Network setup

• Fiber Gigabit Ethernet Interface connections to the clients
• Virtual guest LAN(s) on z/VM

Storage server setup

• Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS) 2105 800 with 2 Terabyte space
  • IBM 3390 model 3
  • DDMS - 15,000 RPMs

Client Hardware

1 x330 PC with 2 processors, 1.26 Ghz

Software