BEA / Wily: Financial Webinar - Achieving Availability, Performance and Control of Java Applications in Financial Services

Event Date: October 1, 2002 at 11:00 AM Pacific (US), 02:00 PM Eastern (US)
To register: http://regsvc.placeware.com/?wily-bea1001
Title: Achieving Availability, Performance and Control of Java Applications
in Financial Services
Abstract:
In today's competitive environment, financial institutions must focus on
three key business goals:
a.. Creating a customer-centric enterprise to maximize value to customers
and increase share of wallet
b.. Improving transactional efficiency for rapid delivery of the right
products, services and information to customers and to employees
c.. Accelerating the decision making process to mitigate risk and improve
returns.
BEA and Wily Technology have helped a number of financial services firms
meet these objectives by delivering high-performance business solutions that
meet rigorous demands for performance, reliability and scalability.
On October 1, 2002, Wily Technology and BEA will present a joint Web seminar
titled "Achieving Availability, Performance and Control of Java Applications
in Financial Services" with Eric Gudgion, Principal System Architect,
Technical Solutions Group at BEA and Chris Farrell, Director of Technical
Marketing at Wily. This Webinar will showcase the many advantages that the
WebLogic® Enterprise PlatformT and Wily's Introscope® offer financial
services firms.
Attendees will learn how WebLogic Server, BEA's unified, simplified and
extensible solution, provides a robust platform for the development and
deployment of enterprise Java applications. Some examples of what financial
institutions can achieve with BEA include Multi-channel Services Delivery,
Straight-Through Processing, Wealth Management and Cash Management.
Wily Technology will highlight Introscope's ability to manage financial
services Java applications by pinpointing component-level performance issues
in real-time, whether in the application, application server or
Java-connected back-end systems. Wily's suite of Java application management
solutions offers a comprehensive platform for achieving 24x7 application
availability, enhanced performance and better control of IT resources.

First of all you should check out which products are supported on 64bit :- http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/hyperion-supported-platforms.html
If you are planning on using windows 64bit EAS then you will have to manually deploy the web application, it cannot be automatically deployed.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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A two-node AFF8080 EX achieved a maximum throughput of 322K IOPS at just over 1ms latency. For all points other than the maximum load point, latency was consistently under 1ms and remained under 0.8ms up to 180K IOPS.
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In addition to performance testing, we looked at the overall storage efficiency savings of our SQL Server database implementation. The degree of compression that can be achieved is dependent on the actual data that is written and stored in the database. For this environment, inline compression was effective. Deduplication, as is often the case in database environments, provided little additional storage savings and was not enabled.
For the test data used in the maximum performance test, we measured a compression ratio of 1.5:1. We also tested inline compression on a production SQL Server 2014 data set to further validate these results and saw a 1.8:1 compression ratio.
Space-efficient NetApp Snapshot® copies provide additional storage efficiency benefits for database environments. Unlike snapshot methods that use copy-on-write, there is no performance penalty; unlike full mirror copies, NetApp Snapshot copies use storage space sparingly. Snapshot copies only consume a small amount of storage space for metadata and additional incremental space is consumed as block-level changes occur. In a typical real-world SQL Server deployment on NetApp storage, database volume Snapshot copies are made every two hours.
First introduced more than 10 years ago, NetApp FlexClone® technology also plays an important role in SQL Server environments. Clones are fully writable, and, similar to Snapshot copies, only consume incremental storage capacity. With FlexClone, you can create as many copies of production data as you need for development and test, reporting, and so on. Cloning is a great way to support the development and test work needed when upgrading from an earlier version of SQL Server. You'll sometimes see these types of capabilities referred to as "copy data management."
A Better Way to Run Enterprise Applications
The performance benefits that all-flash storage can deliver for database environments are significant: more IOPS, lower latency, and an end to near-constant performance tuning.
If you think the performance acceleration that comes with all-flash storage is cost prohibitive, think again. All Flash FAS doesn't just deliver a performance boost, it changes the economics of your operations, paying for itself with thousands in savings on licensing and server costs. In terms of dollars per IOPS, All Flash FAS is extremely economical relative to HDD.
And, because All Flash FAS runs NetApp clustered Data ONTAP, it delivers the most complete environment to support SQL Server and all your enterprise applications with capabilities that include comprehensive storage efficiency, integrated data protection, and deep integration for your applications.
For complete details on this testing look for NetApp TR-4303, which will be available in a few weeks. Stay tuned to Tech OnTap for more information as NetApp continues to run benchmarks with important server workloads including Oracle DB and server virtualization.
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SQL Performance and Hyper-V Generation 2

Hi
Environment - HP DL580 G5 running 2012 R2 Hyper V
There are only 2 VM's on this box and the underlying storage is provided by Equalogic.
I have created 2 VM's running 2012 R2 Server with SQL 2012 Enterprise SP2 which are identical apart from one being generation 1 (imported from a 2008 R2 server) and the other being a native generation 2.
My issues is if I increase the memory to 20gb (runs fine on 10gb) on the gen2 server it will crash under load (dbbc checkdb or any other intensive operation). Gen1 server has no problems running at 20gb.
I am suspecting a numa issue but before I go down this route was wondering if anyone else has seen this. VMQ's have been disabled on both VM's

Hi,
Thank you for your post.
From your description,
I see the current issue you are facing is: The native generation 2 VM running on Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host will crash after increasing memory to 20 GB. Please let me know if I have misunderstood anything.
You mentioned that both of your VMs are configured with static memory, I suspect that might be the cause. To improve Hyper-V and VM performance, there are corresponding best practices, for
memory, the best practice is using dynamic memory.
Although, the Dynamic Memory feature does not help directly in achieving better performance of the virtual machines, but it allows you to balance the allocation of memory resource
dynamically. It is recommended to configure Dynamic Memory parameters for each critical virtual machine running on a Hyper-V server.
Since
dynamic memory adjusts the amount of memory available to a virtual machine, based on changes in memory demand using a memory balloon driver, which helps use memory resources more efficiently.
You can read this blog for more information.
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices (In Easy Checklist Form)
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/03/10/windows-server-2012-hyper-v-best-practices-in-easy-checklist-form.aspx
Currently, could you please try configuring the VMs with dynamic memory instead of static memory to see if the issue can be solved?
Please let me know if there is any update. Thanks for your time.
Best Regards,
Sophia Sun
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