© Copyright IBM Corporation, 2012

Fidelity Information Services and IBM Storwize V7000

with IBM System Storage Easy Tier

IBM Systems and Technology Group ISV Enablement

March, 2012

© Copyright IBM Corporation, 2012

Table of contents Abstract ..................................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 1

Fidelity Information Services and IBM ..................................................................................................... 2 IBM Storwize V7000: Introduction and product overview ...................................................... 3

Profile benchmark configuration .............................................................................................................. 4 Hardware and software components ....................................................................................................... 6

Environment topology............................................................................................................ 7 Application topology ................................................................................................................................. 9

Easy Tier testing results ........................................................................................................ 10 Results ................................................................................................................................................... 10

Summary ................................................................................................................................. 12 Resources ............................................................................................................................... 13 About the author .................................................................................................................... 13 Trademarks and special notices ........................................................................................... 14

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Abstract This paper describes the benchmark testing that was done with IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and Fidelity Information services in January 2012.

Introduction This paper describes the profile benchmark conducted at the IBM® Innovation Center located in Waltham, Massachusetts. The benchmark engagement was conducted over a period of three weeks (January 16 through February 3, 2012) and included the following activities.

• Hardware and network configuration − IBM Power® 780 LPAR IBM Storwize® V7000 storage system

• Software deployment and installation

− Profile application − Message Transaction Monitor (MTM), HTM and other external libraries − Online Java™ load generator

• Profile databases building

− Benchmark directory configuration − Building out of databases − Database backups

• Benchmark testing, analysis, and data collection

The main objectives of the benchmark include:

• Evaluation of the profile’s online and batch performance and scalability on IBM AIX® and the IBM POWER7® processor-based server with 1 million, 5 million, 10 million, 20 million, and 50 million account databases.

• Evaluation of the profile’s scalability on an IBM AIX®/POWER7 configuration. • Identification and tuning of the application, database, and system related bottlenecks to

the extent possible.

The profile benchmark test suite includes the following functions:

• Online The online test simulates an online activity including monetary transactions (60%) and account inquiries (40%). A Java load tool developed by Fidelity was used to generate the online load. These transactions are passed to PROFILE servers on a back-end computer through PROFILE’s MTM. The MTM is connected to the clients using a TCP/IP connection. Transactions received by the servers are processed and responded with a reply message.

• Batch Posting (Function QUE066)

General Batch Posting is a multithreaded process that processed 100,000 transaction

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records supplied in a standard input table (TTX). An input file containing random accounts was used.

• Interest Posting (Function QUE055)

Interest Posting - End of Day is a multithreaded batch process that processes transactions to those accounts that are scheduled to post interest.

• Accruals (Function QUE039)

Accrual processing is a multithreaded batch process that accrues one day’s accrued interest and updates the applicable fields for every account record in the database. This information is summarized by currency code, product class, product group, product type, G/L set code, and cost center. The summary information is one of the sources that feed the general ledger. As every account record in the database is processed, this function serves as a good yardstick to measure performance.

− IBM Storwize V7000 Configuration • Software deployment and installation

− Profile application − MTM, HTM and other external libraries − Online Java load generator

• Building profile databases

− Benchmark directory configuration − Building out of databases − Database backups

• Benchmark testing, analysis and data collection

Fidelity Information Services and IBM A strong collaboration between Fidelity Information Services (FIS) and IBM organization has allowed continuous development of best practices collateral for ensuring successful deployments of new Fidelity Information Services infrastructure at customer locations.

Both the organizations benefit from a shared approach to investigation of new server and storage technologies, including participation in testing at IBM benchmark sites, and as-needed in place validation of selected technologies, such as the review of the latest IBM midrange storage product, the IBM Storwize V7000 system.

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IBM Storwize V7000: Introduction and product overview The IBM Storwize V7000 storage system incorporates some of the IBM top technologies typically found only in enterprise-class storage systems, raising the standard for storage efficiency in midrange disk systems. This cutting-edge storage system extends the comprehensive storage portfolio from IBM and can help change the way organizations address the ongoing information explosion.

Easy to use

The IBM Storwize V7000 system simplifies management with a groundbreaking GUI that is both powerful and easy to use. This interface can help organizations improve storage performance, efficiency, and utilization rates while improving storage administrator productivity. The IBM Storwize V7000 system includes the following features for ease of use:

• Preinstalled software • Simplified provisioning • Online data migration • Simplified application performance tuning

Fast

The IBM Storwize V7000 system helps organizations deploy solid-state storage confidently, effectively, and economically. The IBM Storwize V7000 system provides the following performance features:

• IBM System Storage® Easy Tier™ • Performance management • Multiple storage tiers

Efficient

The IBM Storwize V7000 system integrates some of the top IBM storage-efficiency technologies into a modular design that simplifies the addition of more storage technologies. Greater efficiency translates into increased storage utilization and reduced energy costs. The IBM Storwize V7000 system efficiency includes the following highlights:

• Thin provisioning • Space-efficient IBM Tivoli® Storage FlashCopy® Manager • Easy Tier

Cost-effective

The IBM Storwize V7000 system has a dynamic, modular, and compact design that sets a new standard for cost-effective midrange disk systems. The IBM Storwize V7000 system uses individual, modular components that require less space but still provide customers with the flexibility to grow the storage environment. Capacity and functionality can be added as required, with less disruption than with traditional midrange disk systems.

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Profile benchmark configuration

The following tables provide configuration information regarding database sizes, account sizes, and transaction volumes.

Database configurations

Database configuration Number of customer

records Number of account

records Number of history

records

1 million 500,000 1,000,000 10,000,000 5 million 2,500,000 5,000,000 50,000,000 10 million 5,000,000 10,000,000 100,000,000 20 million 10,000,000 20,000,000 200,000,000 50 million 25,000,000 50,000,000 500,000,000

Table 1: ????

Database configuration Extract file names Extract file size (bytes)

1 million v70perf06_1m.bin 2,471,318,770 5 million v70perf06_5m.bin 12,005,489,199 10 million v70perf06_10m.bin 23,877,455,188 20 million v70perf06_20m.bin 47,604,662,527

50 million

Multiple extract files Total: 118 GB ACN.bin 60,202,708,100 CIF.bin 10,617,100,220 DTX.bin 4,797,484,330 HIST.bin 31,792,421,708 TMP.bin 18,099 TTX.bin 7,309,534 UBG.bin 3,474,394,556 XREF.bin 7,832,924,442

Table 2: Database extract (backup) file sizes

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1 million

DB 5 million

DB 10 million

DB 20 million

DB 50 million

DB Class Group Type Percentage

distribution Number of accounts

Number of

accounts

Number of accounts

Number of accounts

Number of accounts

D CD 350 10% 100,000 500,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 5,000,000

D DDA 400 40% 400,000 2,000,000 4,000,000 8,000,000 20,000,000

D SAV 300 20% 200,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 4,000,000 10,000,000

L LN 500 10% 100,000 500,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 5,000,000

L MTG 700 10% 100,000 500,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 5,000,000

L RC 600 10% 100,000 500,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 5,000,000

Total DB

Size

1,000,000

5,000,000 10,000,000

20,000,000

50,000,000

Table 3: Account product distribution by database configuration

Batch transaction volumes

Online transactions

Transaction inclearing

batch Interest

posing batch

Accrual processing

batch

Database configuration OLTP QUE06 QUE055 QUE039

1 million 400,000 100,000 300,000 1,000,000 5 million 800,000 100,000 1,500,000 5,000,000 10 million 1,200,000 100,000 3,000,000 10,000,000 20 million 1,200,000 100,000 6,000,000 20,000,000 50 million 1,200,000 100,000 15,000,000 50,000,000

Table 4: Transaction volumes

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1 million DB 5 million DB 10 million DB 20 million DB 50 million DB

Class Group Type TTX Entries

Number of Transactions

Number of Transactions

Number of Transactions

Number of Transactions

Number of Transactions

D CD 350

D DDA 400 80,000 80,000 80,000 80,000 80,000 80,000

D SAV 300 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000

L LN 500

L MTG 700

L RC 600

Total TTX

Entries

100,000

100,000

100,000

100,000

100,000

Table 5: Batch transaction entries for QUE066

1 million DB 5 million DB 10 million

DB 20 million DB 50 million DB

Class Group Type Percentage Posting Interest

Number of Accounts

Number of Accounts

Number of Accounts

Number of Accounts

Number of Accounts

D CD 350 100% 100,000 500,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 5,000,000

D DDA 400

D SAV 300 100% 200,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 4,000,000 10,000,000

L LN 500

L MTG 700

L RC 600

Total INP Entries

300,000 1,500,000 3,000,000 6,000,000 15,000,000

Table 6: Interest posting account entries for QUE055

Hardware and software components

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Software Components

IBM to provide and install softwareISV to configure IBM to setup hardware ISV to install & Configure

Servers and Storage

x336

Windows 2003 Server SP1

Load Drivers and Workstations

Load Driver (6)

Internet Explorer 6.0

TightVNC

ISV Tools

Application and Database Server

IBM pSeries p595

AIX 5.3 ML04 64-bit jfs2

nmon64

Mozilla 1.7.12

Profile

Unix workstation

p185 Intellistation

AIX 5.3 ML04 64-bit jfs2

Mozilla 1.7.12

Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.09

VNC

AIX Performance Toolbox

IBM DS8100

IBM DS4800

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Environment topology

VPN

Environment Topology

Subnet: 172.27.21.192 Netmask:255.255.255.192 Gateway: 172.27.21.193 DNS: 172.27.1.2 Domain: bow.iic.ihost.com

DS8700

wp7801a1(172.27.21.195)

SAN

Wp7801b1 (172.27.21.196)

V7000

wx355040 (127.27.21.197)

wx355041 (127.27.21.198)

wx355042 (127.27.21.199)

wx355043 (127.27.21.200)

1 Gbps Cisco Machine Room KVM System

IBM IIC Secure Router Firewall

FIS Onsite Client KVM Console

FIS Router / Firewall

FIS Remote Client

Network Topology

10/100 mbps Cisco Porting Room

ISV provided Laptop

DHCP Clients

KVM Core

x33604x33603x33602x33601

Cisco Gigabit Switch

zPro

p59501

KVM

Cisco Gigabit Switch

p185

10.3.10.66

10.3.10.55

10.3.10.23

Gigabit Backbone

DS8100

2Gb fibre

x33605x33606

SAN

p185

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Application topology

• • Load Driver

Load Driver

Load Driver

Load Driver

Load Driver

Load Driver

Primary Application and Database Server

Profile Application (6 MTMs)

GTM Database

Secondary Application and Database Server Profile Application GTM Database

GTM Replication

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Easy Tier testing results The IBM Storwize V7000 includes IBM System Storage Easy Tier, a function that responds to the presence of solid-state drives (SSDs) in a storage pool that also contains hard disk drives (HDDs). The system automatically and nondisruptively moves frequently accessed data from HDD managed disks (MDisks) to SSD MDisks, thus placing such data in a faster tier of storage.

Easy Tier eliminates manual intervention when assigning highly active data on volumes to faster responding storage. In this dynamically tiered environment, data movement is seamless to the host application, regardless of the storage tier in which the data is available. Manual controls exist so that you can change the default behavior, for example, turning off Easy Tier on storage pools that have both types of MDisks.

Storwize V7000 supports the following tiers:

• Generic SSD tier

− The SSD tier exists when SSDs are in the storage pool. The SSDs provide greater performance than HDDs.

• Generic HDD tier − The HDD tier exists when HDDs are in the storage pool.

During the FIS / Storwize benchmark, three Easy Tier tests were conducted:

• SDD only (Easy Tier off) • HDD only (Easy Tier off) • SSDs and HDDs (Easy Tier on)

Results

This section summarizes the test performed and the corresponding results.

SSD only (Easy Tier off)

What was tested?

• Twelve 300 GB SSD • Easy Tier disabled • FIS online and batch processing • Input/output operations per second (IOPS) average at 2,000 to 4000 IOPS spikes to

15,000 IOPS

What were the results?

• Drive utilization: 63% • Response time: 0.2 ms • Processor user: 0~80% • Processor sys: less than 2% • Processor wait: less than 2%

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Storwize V7000 HDD

What was tested?

• Twenty four 300 GB HDDs • Easy Tier disabled • FIS online and batch processing • IOPS average at 2,000 to 4000 IOPS spikes to 15,000 IOPS

What were the results?

• Drive utilization: 481% • Response time: 60 second peaks • User: 80% • Sys: 100% • Wait: 100% • Significant slowdowns in online and batch processing time

Storwize V7000 Easy Tier

What was tested?

• Twenty four 300 GB HDDs • Four 300 GB SDDs • Easy Tier enabled • FIS online and batch processing • IOPS average at 2,000 to 4000 IOPS spikes to 15,000 IOPS

What were the results?

• Drive utilization: 47% • Response time: 0.2 ms • Processor user: 0 to 80% • Processor sys: less than 1% • Processor wait: less than 1% • Easy Tier provided better drive utilization, response time, and processor (user, sys, and

wait) times than HDD only and SSD only tests.

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Summary The tests with Easy Tier activated provided the best overall performance and total cost of owner ship results. The combination of HDD and SSD with Easy Tier activated resulted in the best drive utilization, response time, and processor (user, sys, wait) times.

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Resources These websites provide useful references to supplement the information contained in this paper:

• IBM Systems on PartnerWorld ibm.com/partnerworld/systems

• Virtual Loaner Program

ibm.com/systems/vlp

• IBM Power Systems Information Center http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp

• IBM i 7.1 Information Center

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp • IBM i 6.1 Information Center

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v6r1m0/index.jsp • IBM AIX 7.1 Information Center

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/index.jsp • IBM AIX 6.1 Information Center

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/index.jsp

• IBM Redbooks ibm.com/redbooks

• IBM Publications Center

www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/public/applications/publications/cgibin/pbi.cgi?CTY=US

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