SPECvirt sc2013 User'sGuide

SPECvirt_sc2013 User'sGuide

Version 1.00 - February17, 2015

• 1.0 Requirements
  • 1.1 Client requirements
  • 1.2 VM requirements
    • 1.2.1 Storage requirements
    • 1.2.2 VM creation and network configuration
    • 1.2.3 VM software requirements
• 2.0 Setting up the test environment
  • 2.1 SPECpoll setup on all VMs
  • 2.2 Infraserver VM workload setup
  • 2.3 Webserver VM workload setup
  • 2.4 Mailserver VM workload setup
    • 2.4.1 Creating user accounts on the mailserver
  • 2.5 Database server VM workload setup
  • 2.6 Application server VM workload setup
  • 2.7 Batchserver VM workload setup
• 3.0 Setting up the client
  • 3.1 Install Java JDK
  • 3.2 Set up client hostnames
  • 3.3 VM and client operating system tuning
  • 3.4 Setup SPECvirt harness
• Appendix A - How to Build BeSIM
  • A.1 UNIX/LINUX
  • A.2 Windows
• Appendix B - Installing BeSim as a FastCGI for the Apache HTTP Server
  • B.1 FastCGI source compilation
  • B.2 Apache FastCGI Web server module: mod_fastcgi
  • B.3 Testing the BeSim FastCGI

1.0Requirements

This guide assumesthat you are using the SPECvirt_sc2013 version and that you have familiaritywith virtualization concepts and implementations. You require experience withthe installation, configuration, management, and tuning of your selectedhypervisor platform. You must know how to use your virtualization platform tocreate, administer, and modify virtual machines and allocate system resourcesincluding:

• Set up and add physical and internal networks
• Add virtual disks to VMs
• Use operating system and application software packages using tools such as yum and rpm to install, update, and configure:
  • J2EE application server software and JDBC libraries (for example GlassFish)
  • DBMS (for example PostgreSQL)
  • IMAP mail server (for example Dovecot)
  • web server (for example Apache, PHP, and fastcgi)
• Understand and run shell scripts
• Edit files with a text editor such as vi

1.1 Clientrequirements

A client machineshould be able to drive a complete tile's workload if it has the followingminimum characteristics:

• A 2010 or later processor with any core combination resulting in at least eight threads
• At least 8 GB of memory
• Network to accommodate slightly over 1 GbE bandwidth
• 24 GB of storage

You can use morethan one physical client, virtual client, or a combination to drive a tile.

Note: Due to network latency, we recommend that you create a separate,dedicated webserver client. Instructions for this are in Appendix B of the SPECvirt Client Harness User's Guide.

1.2 VMrequirements

When creating VMs,use your preferred virtualization software to create a virtual machine that hasenough virtual CPUs, virtual memory, virtualized network interfaces, andvirtual disk space to run your operating system and workload softwaresuccessfully. 

Each tile requires at least 110 GB storage per tile + 32 GB per database ser