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[Back to Performance perspectives: The new Domino 6 NotesBench workloads: Heavier by request!]
NotesBench for capacity planning
The hardware vendors use the workloads to provide NotesBench results for their platforms across their hardware products aimed at Domino. The NotesBench Consortium, which consist of vendors such as IBM, Sun, HP, Network Appliance, Unisys, Dell, and Hitachi, publishes NotesBench audited reports generated by the vendors. These reports are meant to help customers determine how Domino-supported platforms scale with a common workload and testbed. The NotesBench benchmark results give only the high water mark of performance on particular hardware configurations. But in the detailed version of the reports, you can get valuable information on how the vendors configured the systems to achieve the best possible price/performance trade-offs. For example, the I/O subsystem configurations provides very useful information for what systems were selected, how key files are distributed, and what options are specified. Also, the hardware vendors use these workloads in typical customer configurations to generate data, which is the basis for their capacity tools.
Use the Server.Load tool for capacity planning in your environment
Server.Load is a capacity planning and load tool that is GUI based and contains the standard NotesBench workloads. It is shipped with Notes and Domino. You can also implement your own customized scripts with Server.Load; you can start by modifying the standardized workloads. Server.Load gives you the ability to do tailored analysis of your environment and relate the findings to the vendor's published results. Currently, Server.Load has all the R5 workloads except the R5iNotes workload. The R5iNotes and D6 workloads will be available in the near future.
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