Lotus Domino 7 on Linux for IBM System z: Capacity Planning and Performance Updates

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Published 18 December 2006, updated 29 December 2006

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IBM Form #: REDP-4109-00
(56 pages)

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Authors: Barbara Filippi, Don Corbett, Juergen Doelle, Barbara Filippi, Wu Huang, Mike Wojton

Abstract

In early 2005, the Scalability Center for Linux on zSeries (SCL) in Poughkeepsie performed a study on IBM Lotus Domino 6.5 for Linux on IBM System z. During that study, capacity planning and performance data was collected using an industry-standard benchmarking tool to drive both NRPC (Notes) and Domino Web Access (HTTP) e-mail users.

The results of this benchmark showed two bottlenecks that prevented linear scalability of throughput for Domino 6.5 for Linux on System z.

Domino 7.0 and z/VM 5.2, which both became available later in 2005, offer relief for these two bottlenecks.

This IBM Redpaper discusses the results of those tests and provides some recommendations.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Domino and the benchmarking tool used
Chapter 3. Test environments and scenarios
Chapter 4. Data analysis of benchmark runs
Chapter 5. Study results
Chapter 6. Conclusions and recommendations

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