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Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS - IBM Redbooks

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► The <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator was installed on 140 <strong>IBM</strong> HS21 blades. Each blade had<br />

two WoodCrest 5160 3.00 GHz dual-core CPUs and 16 GB RAM, <strong>for</strong> a total<br />

of about 2.2 TB RAM across all blades.<br />

Note that one backup blade was configured <strong>for</strong> every 27 blades. So our<br />

configuration consisted of 135 production and five backup blade servers.<br />

► Five <strong>IBM</strong> System x 335 workstations with two CPUs, 2.8 GHZ, and 4 GB of<br />

RAM were used <strong>for</strong> the query load driver.<br />

► There were six <strong>IBM</strong> System Storage DS8300 systems in this configuration.<br />

Three storage systems were attached to the System z9, one to the System<br />

p5, and two to the blades. The RAID-5 configured storage <strong>for</strong> System z was<br />

129 TB. The RAID-5 configured storage <strong>for</strong> System p was 14 TB. The<br />

RAID-10 configured storage <strong>for</strong> the blades was 29 TB. That is the total<br />

storage be<strong>for</strong>e logical volumes were <strong>for</strong>matted. The capacities <strong>for</strong> these<br />

storage systems after being initialized were 113 TB, 13 TB, and 17 TB,<br />

respectively.<br />

Software<br />

Here is the list of software installed on each hardware component:<br />

► System z9: z/<strong>OS</strong> V1.8, <strong>DB2</strong> <strong>for</strong> z/<strong>OS</strong> V9<br />

► System p5: AIX 5.3, <strong>SAP</strong> Netweaver <strong>BI</strong> 7.0 SP13, <strong>DB2</strong> Connect V9<br />

► Blades: Linux SLES9 SP3, <strong>SAP</strong> Netweaver <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator 7.0 rev. 39, GPFS<br />

3.1.0-11<br />

Chapter 11. Project Jupiter: large <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator scalability evaluation 231

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