Intel 7xx Servers User Manual

16.3.1 Small system Hardware Configuration 
9406-MMA 7051 4 way - 32 GB Mainstore 
DASD / 30 70GB 15K rpm arms, 
6 DASD in CEC Mirrored  
24 DASD in a #5786 EXP24 Disk Drawer attached with a 571F IOA RAID5 Protected 

Software Configuration 
100,000 spool files (100,000 completed jobs with 1 spool file per job) 
500 jobs in job queues (inactive) 
600 active jobs in system during Mainstore dump 
1000 user profiles, 1000 libraries 
Active Database: 2 libraries with 500 physical files and 20 logical files 

16.3.2 Large system Hardware Configurations 
9406-MMA 7056 8 way - 96 GB Mainstore 
DASD / 432 70GB 15K rpm arms, 
3 ASP's defined, 108 RAID5 DASD in ASP1, 288 RAID5 DASD in ASP2, 36 DASD no protection in  
ASP3 - Mainstore dump set to ASP 2 
y

This system was tested with database files unrelated to this test covering 30% of the DASD space  
available, this database load causes a long directory recovery. 

9406-MMA 7061 16 way - 512 GB Mainstore 
DASD / 1000 70GB 15K rpm arms, 
3 ASP's defined, 196 Nonconfigured DASD, 120 RAID5 DASD in ASP1, 612 RAID5 DASD in ASP2,  
72 DASD no protection in ASP3 - Mainstore dump set to ASP 2 
y

This system was tested with database files unrelated to this test covering 30% of the DASD space  
available, this database load causes a long directory recovery. 

Software Configuration
400,000 spool files (400,000 completed jobs with 1 spool files each)
1000 jobs waiting on job queues (inactive)
11000 active jobs in system during mainstore dump
200 remote printers, 6000 user profiles, 6000 libraries
Active Database:
y

25 libraries with 2600 physical files and 452 logical files

y

2 libraries with 10,000 physical files and 200 logical files

NOTE:
y

Physical files are explicitly journaled

y

Logical files are journaled using SMAPP set to *MIN

y

Commitment Control used on 20% of the files

IBM i 6.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - January/April/October 2008

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