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PSSC Customer Center Montpellier

Informix Benchmarks au centre de Montpellier

Laurent REVEL – IBM System x, Benchmark Manager

3 Octobre 2012

IBM PSSC Customer Center – Informix benckmarks

Introduction

Le Centre de Benchmark au P.S.S.C de Montpellier

Dernier benchmark Informix

Publication Informix TPC-C 2012

Gammes IBM System-x

© 2012 IBM Corporation


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



The Infrastructure Solutions Center provides comprehensive
PSSC Assets
benchmark, testing, briefing, and education facilities to
demonstrate the advantages of IBM systems & solutions.
Support our clients in validating IBM solutions accuracy to their requirements
Devote our expertise and resources around customers and industries.
Innovate technologies and integrate them, along with the client’s business processes.
Commit to business solutions, and not just technology for technology’s sake.
Bring the marketplace viewpoint into our WW IBM Labs.

High-Level Expertise 2 DE
11 certified in 2010 including Senior
Unique IBM investment in Europe with Certified Architect, total 45 Certified
250 highly-skilled IT Specialists & Architects Experts & Thought Leaders
2 AoT including VP TEC-F
Latest Technology 5 OTAA in 2010
+150 iRAM Assets
Significant technology available for customers locally or remotely in 17 Patents in 2010, total 53
other STG Centers include latest Mainframe, Power, HPC, System x &
Storage

Onsite Customer Facilities
Onsite customer facilities include 40 briefing, education &
benchmarks rooms
Mainframe: 898K Mips
Power Systems: 50 TFlops
Remote Customer Facilities
System x & Blades: 1250 servers
Remote customer facilities include 8 platforms, 2 large HPC Clusters
Storage: 2300 Tbytes all systems
and access to the WW GDPS Solution Center, Light Benchmark &
WW Central Lab Platforms



System x Commercial Benchmark Center

The IBM Montpellier System x Benchmark Center provides IBM Sales Teams and
Business Partners with the capability to perform customer benchmarks on the latest
System x and Blade Servers technology.
Our center provides access to equipment, facilities, consulting services, and project
management skills. We help customers make the right decision on System x platforms.
Our center supports requests from around the world with a focus on customers in Europe.

A set of experts: I/T Specialists, Advisory IT/Specialist, Red-Hat certified
(RHCE) and Microsoft OS experts, Servers and Storage specialists, we provide:

System x customer Benchmarks and Proof of Concept.
System x technical support.
System x solution architecture validation for STG.
System x technical education delivery.

Focus on Blades / PureFlex & High-end


System x Light Benchmark
Summary Characteristics
A shared environment to perform testing Pre-defined Hardware (see next page)
using Cloud computing model Quick access to a secured & isolated test bed
Large set of servers and blades System x environment
- Virtualization & automation in place to speed up
PSSC Offering deployment and facilitate access
- Pre-defined Operating System
PSSC System x Light Offering: Get access - Further customization required (client application &
remotely to pre-defined environment specific data set load)
- Available within 1 to 3 days for the Client (after Positioning
completed qualification with STG FTSS in country) - Functional tests, Integration tests, Architecture
- Suitable for 1 to 2 weeks duration maximum validation, Operability tests, Proof-of-Concept, Limited
- Rational Performance Tester environment can be Performance & Scalability tests
added to the configuration upon request
- Free of charge. Just need an open business
opportunity in Siebel + business case released in
benchmark request (see the url in Contact)



System x Benchmark approach
Details
A dedicated benchmark
environment reproducing a complex
and specific customer environment Characteristics

Tailored specifically to the client needs
PSSC Offerings &
suitable for hosting critical workloads.
Remote Benchmark = Get access remotely to a Very similar to the targeted production
test bed environment for the pre-defined required system with
duration The customer data set
− From 5 days to > 1 month
− Pricing customized to the level of resources Same applications, same software.
involved. Positioning:
Integration, Migration, Performance,
Traditional Benchmark = Get access to a
dedicated platform and the experts, the tools, the Scalability, Robustness
methodology to do the Benchmark Architecture validation
− Leverage dedicated expertise & benefit from skill
transfer HA / DR tests
− Pricing based on the level of support and duration
of the engagement

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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



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



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


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

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



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 »



Informix TPC-C done in 2012 (2)
Informix database / setting used during this TPC-C benchmark :
Shared memory sized to 2 GB*,

Nine tables with index & contraints,

No transaction’s application code modification allowed.

Results of the best run :
tpmC-UVA = 610.728

Number of warehouses:55
Number of terminals per warehouse: 10
Warm-up time : 45 mn
Measure time : 240 mn

Conclusion : « This test successfully achieved the 55 warehouses for
10 terminals run, making a total of 550 terminal sessions, which is
impressive for a test hosting both application and the database server
on the same client ».





Publications Informix TPC-C 2012

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IBM Flex System x240 - Enterprise Class
Compute IBM Flex System x240

Uncompromised Compute, IO, and Storage
performance, designed for mainstream
virtualization, and a broad range of workloads
Standard Width compute
node
2x IO Mezzanine Cards 2x Intel E5 2600
◊
System infrastructure

Processors
2-socket Sandy Bridge-EP
◊
24 LP DDR3 DIMMs /
1333MHz / 1600MHz
◊ 24 LP
10Gb Converged LOM
DIMMs
◊
2 hot swap 2.5” SAS/SATA Keyboard, Mouse,
SSDs or HDDs Video Dongle
◊ connector
Dual Enabled Hypervisor –
ESXi on Flash Key Option 2x Hot Swap, Small Form Factor HDDs
Release latch © 2012 IBM Corporation


HS23 - HS22 & HS22V Follow-on Sandy Bridge EP Blade

2x Intel Xeon Processors Integrated 10GbE Virtual Fabric
(Romley EP)
Dual and
redundant power
& I/O connectors

2x IO Expansion Slots
1x CIOv +1x CFFh)

16x VLP DDR3 Memory
2x hot-swap drive bays (256GB Max / 1600MHz Max)
(SAS, SATA or Solid State)


eX5 – a portfolio that redefines enterprise x86 computing

System x3850 X5 IBM BladeCenter HX5
BladeCenter HX5 System x3690 X5

MAX5
Maximum memory scaling
independent of processors

One 4-Socket Two 2-Socket
eXFlash FlexNode System Systems
Extreme IOPs SSD Scheduled
storage provisioning



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

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System x : operating system supported

Red Hat 5 / 6 (last 6.3)

SUSE 11 / 10

Windows 2003 / 2008

ESX 4, 5

and others ...

More details on : IBM Server Proven http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/



Thanks,

laurent.revel@fr.ibm.com


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