IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1 for Linux on System z - Performance and z/VM Resource Management

This white paper is about the setup and the performance of an IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) server for Linux™ on System z® running under z/VM®. The tuning of some important Cognos BI server components is described. The paper also informs about how to use the z/VM resource manager (VMRM) to manage constrained CPU resources between competing workloads.

Published November 2014