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SAP on IBM Z Performance - Linux Application Server Comparison on z15 - RHEL versus SLES

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show that both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are good options for SAP application servers running on IBM Z co-located environments. This was demonstrated using both SAP Banking Account Settlements which is a batch processing workload, and SAP banking Day Posting which is an online transaction processing (OLTP) or interactive workload.

The SAP on IBM Z Performance Team, located in Poughkeepsie, NY, specifically conducted this comparison effort to assess the performance of the (2) major Enterprise Linux Server distributions. This study was driven by SAP Banking workloads executing in a large application server processor configuration, co-located on an IBM z15. With 100 million SAP Banking accounts in a Db2 on Z database, the size of the environment was comparable to some of the largest banks in the world.

Measurements conducted in this effort were stress test in nature and not certified benchmarks. Results of the batch and interactive measurements used here should not be generally assumed for all possible workloads and environments without verification.

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Modified date:
15 March 2022

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ibm16412077

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