IBM ECM servers

The FNP8 CPE and ICN applications represented the ECM system used in the case study.

FNP8 CPE addressed the enterprise content and process management requirements, while ICN is a Web client that provided a console for working with the contents of FileNet® repositories.

Both applications were installed in independent WAS clusters with four uniform cluster members.

The FileNet Advanced File Storage Area was shared among all four ECM WAS cluster members either with:
  • Directly-attached (Spectrum Scale SD) SAN filesystem disks.
  • Network-attached (Spectrum Scale NSD) SAN filesystem disks.
Table 1. ECM cluster-member virtual machine resources
ECM WAS cluster member (maximum 4 x cluster members)
8 virtual CPUs
16 GiB memory
10 GbE LAN via VSWITCH
1 x DASD Model 27 for Linux™ - 4x HyperPAV aliases directly attached
6 x 100 GiB FCP shared FCP-attached SCSI disks for Advanced File Storage Area
2 x 256 GiB FCP-attached SCSI disks for backup purposes
Table 2. ECM software
Software Service level
SLES11 for z Systems™ (64-bit) Service Pack 3 (SP3)
IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment (64-bit) v8.5.5 Fix Pack 3 (8.5.5.3)
IBM WebSphere SDK for Java™ Technology Edition 7 v7.0.7.0
IBM FileNet CP Engine v5.2.1
IBM Content Navigator v2.0.3
IBM Spectrum Scale™ v4.2.0.0