![IBM PSSC Customer Center – Informix benckmarks
February 2012 : POWER Benchmark in Montpellier (performance
tips)
Benchmark team applied AIX good practices to optimize POWER ressources :
RSET gain approximatly 40% :
Details taken from our benchmark :
In our case, the optimal number of IFX CoServers was 9. To fit with the HW design, we have
chosen to run with 8 CoServers (2 CoServers per Book)
Book0 => CoServer1 and CoServer5
Book1 => CoServer2 and CoServer6
Book2 => CoServer3 and CoServer7
Book3 => CoServer4 and CoServer8
So, in AIX, 8 RSETs (one for each CoServer) were created with the following command :
mkrset -c <set of cpu> [ -m <memory> ] rsetname
mkrset -c 0-43 -m 0 COS/1
mkrset -c 44-91 -m 0 COS/2
More details on this AIX feature >
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.aix.cmds%2Fdoc%2Faixcmds3%2Fmkrset.htm
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- 1. PSSC Customer Center Montpellier Informix Benchmarks au centre de Montpellier Laurent REVEL – IBM System x, Benchmark Manager 3 Octobre 2012
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- 4. IBM PSSC Customer Center – Informix benckmarks Welcome to IBM Montpellier Since its creation in 1965, the IBM Montpellier site has developed strong expertise in the manufacturing and support of large IT systems. Over the past 47 years, Montpellier continuously adapted its strategy to market developments by largely diversifying its business and adding new service activities to enrich its portfolio to include: Technical and marketing presales support Outsourcing data center Technical support maintenance IT integration & solutions Supply chain operations Repurpose of older generation products. IBM is a major contributor to the regional economy and remains one of the first private employers and the largest exporters in the Languedoc Roussillon region in France. 1000 Employees © 2012 IBM Corporation
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- 12. IBM PSSC Customer Center – Informix benckmarks February 2012 : POWER Benchmark in Montpellier (Business context) X is one of the market leaders in the European insurance industry. The objective of the benchmark was to validate this growth capability of the DWH/DSS solution Customer main infrastructure: Mainframe: IBM servers & IBM DS8K storage UNIX: IBM POWER servers & HDS USP-V DatawareHouse / DSS infrastructure running on UNIX platform: Server: 2 x POWER 795 in turbo mode (20 CORES / 650GB) Storage: 2 x HDS USP-V (LVM mirror) with 33 TB each, throughput 5 GB/sec Software: Informix XPS 8.51 © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 13. IBM PSSC Customer Center – Informix benckmarks February 2012 : POWER Benchmark in Montpellier (Overall benchmark objectives) Goal of this benchmark is to validate solution scalability for a 330% volume growth within the next 3 years. Demonstrate scalability of the POWER 795 technology Demonstrate performance of the DS8800 storage system Informix best practices X had pre-defined and selected the following use cases Batch processes (SQL stream) with related SLA I/O workload measurement on DS8800 The project requires Hardware and software stack using latest technologies Relevant dataset Representative workload generation © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 14. IBM PSSC Customer Center – Informix benckmarks February 2012 : POWER Benchmark in Montpellier (Infrastructure) 1) One rootvg-Disk with AIX 6.1 in the beginning. AIX 6.1 TL7 - XPS 8.51 After the Installation of Informix another rootvg- Disk with an Alternate Disk Migration to AIX 7.1 AIX 7.1 TL1 – XPS 8.51 1) 2) We want to use 16 FC adapters with 1 of the two ports connected to the SAN. The adapters should be distributed over the 3 I/O-drawers (in Double Barrel mode) for maximum performance. Management VLAN HMC 16 2) SAN 8Gbps 16 16 DS8800 DS8800 © 2012 IBM Corporation
- 15. IBM PSSC Customer Center – Informix benckmarks February 2012 : POWER Benchmark in Montpellier (performance tips) Benchmark team applied AIX good practices to optimize POWER ressources : RSET gain approximatly 40% : Details taken from our benchmark : In our case, the optimal number of IFX CoServers was 9. To fit with the HW design, we have chosen to run with 8 CoServers (2 CoServers per Book) Book0 => CoServer1 and CoServer5 Book1 => CoServer2 and CoServer6 Book2 => CoServer3 and CoServer7 Book3 => CoServer4 and CoServer8 So, in AIX, 8 RSETs (one for each CoServer) were created with the following command : mkrset -c <set of cpu> [ -m <memory> ] rsetname mkrset -c 0-43 -m 0 COS/1 mkrset -c 44-91 -m 0 COS/2 More details on this AIX feature > http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.aix.cmds%2Fdoc%2Faixcmds3%2Fmkrset.htm © 2012 IBM Corporation
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- 17. IBM PSSC Customer Center – Informix benckmarks Informix TPC-C done in 2012 Infrastructure, Informix & costing Install a server based on Linux (Fedora 14, kernel 2.6.35.14 x86_64) with the following specifications: 1-socket Intel quad-core Q9400 (four 2.66 Ghz processors) 16 Gb of DDR-2 RAM Four 500 Gb SATA II, 7,200 rpm disk drives Note that this configuration costs less than EUR900. Informix Dynamic Server 11.70.FC4 Innovator-C Edition Note that this configuration costs ZERO EUR0. More details on this feature > http://fr.vercelletto.com/2012/03/22/tpc-c-informix/ or http://en.vercelletto.com/wp-content/plugins/downloads- manager/upload/Benchmark%20Informix%20innovator_EN.pdf Or more explanations on > http://ibmdatamag.com/2012/05/pushing-ibm-informix-innovator-c-to-its-limits/ •TPC = Transaction Processing Performance •« Current TPC benchmarls include TPC-C, TPC-E and TPC-H, but TPC-C is the most representative benchmark for OLTP activity » © 2012 IBM Corporation
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- 23. IBM PSSC Customer Center – Informix benckmarks eX5 - maximize memory The new eX5 portfolio provides as much as twice the amount of memory as competitive systems 6 TB 2-socket 4-socket 8-socket 200 192 3 TB 128 100 2 TB 96 64 64 DIMMs 40 32 18 EP 5 X5 HX X5 X5 er e M EX r 90 M EX 50 M EX 50 -IB em te 36 -IB em 38 38 tm n l en x n l x -IB em x es No eha C m No eha m n l em W de te te No eha st N Bla S ys N S ys N Sy © 2012 IBM Corporation
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