Benchmarking at the CME Solution Center

The CME Solution Center provides benchmarking services on IA-32, IA-64 based platforms and all operating systems ( HP-UX, Windows, Linux). Experts will help you in multiple domains like hardware configuration, software set-up, tools recommendations to size your infrastructure closely to your needs and to optimize each of the components. Prior to your arrival in the Center, the architecture and most recent HP hardware to be tested will be defined.

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At the end of the test phase, benchmark results documentation will be delivered along with measurement results and analysis.

The CME Solution Center team also provides assistance in:

End to end Solution Optimization:

• Which solution architecture?
• Interoperability testing and measurement

Hardware Optimization:

• Which server?
• How much RAM, how many processors do I need? At what speed?
• Storage IO and Bandwidth
• Performance / resiliency

Software Optimization:

• Operating systems (Linux, Window, HPUX)
• Database (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL)
• Web services

Monitoring:

• Hardware level (HPSIM and plug ins, EVA perf...)
• OS Level (Sar, Glance, IOstat, Microsoft tools...)
• Application layer

Load generation:

• Usage Model definition and custom scripting
• HP / Mercury LoadSim
• IPTV benchmarking expertise