Setting up and tuning the SUT

Setup and tuning modifications applied to the SUT are described in this topic. Changes were done for z/VM®, Linux™ for z Systems™, WAS and ECM software.

Setting up z/VM
This topic describes the setup that was specified for use with the z/VM hypervisor.
Setting up the Linux operating system
In addition to the z/VM resource allocations, various tuning activities were required for Linux networking, disk I/O, and some other parameters.
Tuning the ECM gateway
The Web communication for the ECM system was performed via an IBM® HTTP Server (IHS) running in a single virtual machine.
Enterprise Content Management application tuning
This topic describes the tuning that was performed for the ECM (Enterprise Content Management) application tier.
Enterprise Content Management database server
This topic describes the tuning for the ECM database server, in accordance with the guidelines for creating a FNP8 Object Store database.
Results of Enterprise Content Management tuning
The results of the actions to tune the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) applications are now described.

Parent topic: IBM Enterprise Content Management for Linux on z Systems, Scale-Out Case Study (Part 1): Single ECM Node with XFS and IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2