BizTalk 2009 Performance Ewan Fairweather Tim Wieman Paolo Salvatori BizTalk Customer Advisory Team (CAT) Microsoft Corporation SBPCT301

Session Objectives Session Objective(s): −Provide illustrative examples of successful performance labs. −Provide information on the tools, techniques and processes used by the Rangers to run effective BizTalk performance labs. −Answer BizTalk performance related questions.

Agenda Results for Customer Performance Lab Initial results for BizTalk 2009 Performance Lab Visual Studio Test Demo Optimization Highlights & Open Q&A

Skandia Background Existing ASP.NET COM+ based internet bank New version of internet bank: −Go-live November 2008 −SOA based −BizTalk used as Skandia’s Service Bus −Leverages investments Skandia have made in IKForetag (Insurance application) −Current throughput 100,000 requests per day −Two-year projected growth to 250,000 requests per day −Will solidify BizTalk/WCF as the messaging platform for the bank Ranger involvement −ADR delivered June 2008 −Performance Lab scheduled September 2008

Skandia Performance Lab Goals

Skandia Scenarios Overview Scenario 1: Orchestration Scenario 2: Messaging only

Scenario 1 Message Flow Orchestration Scenario

Skandia Scenario 1 Results Summary ~333% throughput improvement* ~195% of throughput requirements* Latency reduced to ~29% of original value* Stability validated by long running test *2 BizTalk Node Configuration Test Concurrent Test Client Users Messages Per Second Avg Response (ms) % < 3 seconds Messages Per Day Test Length Goal Test Case 1 Baseline 2 BizTalk Node Configuration % ~147, minutes 99% of messages <3 seconds 9 messages/second 250,000 per day 4 BizTalk Node Configuration % ~142, minutes Test Case 1 Optimized Results 2 BizTalk Node Configuration % ~489, hours 99% of messages <3 seconds 9 messages/second 250,000 per day 4 BizTalk Node Configuration % ~501, minutes

Scenario 2 Message Flow Messaging only

Skandia Scenario 2 Results Summary ~480% throughput improvement* ~2000% of throughput requirements* Latency reduced to ~36% of original value* Stability validated by long running test *2 BizTalk Node Configuration Test Concurrent Test Client Users Messages Per Second Avg Response (ms) % < 3 seconds Messages Per Day Test Length Goal Test Case 2 Baseline 2 BizTalk Node Configuration % ~1,071, minutes 99% of messages <3 seconds 9 messages/second 250,000 per day 4 BizTalk Node Configuration % ~933, minutes Test Case 2 Optimized Results 2 BizTalk Node Configuration % ~5,135, hours 99% of messages <3 seconds 9 messages/second 250,000 per day 4 BizTalk Node Configuration % ~7,000, minutes

Results for Customer Performance Lab Initial results for BizTalk 2009 Performance Lab Visual Studio Test Demo Optimization Highlights & Open Q&A Agenda

Logical Ports Test Scenario Logical Port Orchestration

Test Concurrent Test Client Users Messages Per Second Avg Response (s) % < 3 seconds Messages Per 8-hour Day Test Length Logical Ports on Optimized Platform R2 64 bit Orch ~1,672, minutes Bit Orch ~1,746, minutes 2009 Hyper-V ~1,520, minutes Performance Comparison Summary Vs.

Inline Sends and Logical Ports Vs. Logical Port Orchestration Inline Sends Orchestration

Test Concurrent Test Client Users Messages Per Second Avg Response (sec) % < 3 seconds Messages Per Day Test Length Logical Ports BizTalk initial increasing by 100 every 4 minutes ~1,869, minutes Inline Sends BizTalk initial increasing by 100 every 4 minutes ~4,262, minutes Logical Ports and Inline Sends Results Summary Test Concurrent Test Client Users Messages Per Second Avg Response (sec) % < 3 seconds Messages Per Day Test Length Logical Ports BizTalk ~1,746, minutes Inline Sends BizTalk ~6,824, minutes Stair step Constant load

Agenda Results for Customer Performance Lab Initial results for BizTalk 2009 Performance Lab Visual Studio Test Demo Optimization Highlights & Open Q&A

Visual Studio

Agenda Results for Customer Performance Lab Initial results for BizTalk 2009 Performance Lab Visual Studio Test Demo Optimization Highlights & Open Q&A

Platform Optimization Highlights Adjusted Windows Server 2008 for best performance Disabled SynAttackProtect (Denial of Service checking) Placed the PAGEFILE on a separate local disk Changed the Speed & Duplex property of each NIC from “Auto” to 1 Gigabit Full Duplex Stopped and disabled unused windows services on all BizTalk Server and SQL Server nodes Disabled the debug flag in the web.config configuration files Increased the maxconnection settings from the default value of 2 to 50 on BizTalk and Front-End web farm The following settings did not improve performance on Windows Server 2008 which has a self tuning network stack: Modified or created several registry entries regarding TCP/IP, Network, Session Manager, LanManServer, FileSystem settings.

SQL Optimization Highlights Before baseline: −Installed CU package 9 and installed Performance Dashboard −Pre-allocate space (size) for all data / log files −Fixed autogrowth value to a fixed amount −Granted Windows ‘Lock Pages In Memory’ and ‘Perform Volume Maintenance Task’ Standard SQL optimizations: −Moved Data and Log files to separate LUNs −Output all Log/Full backups to dedicated LUN −Split TempDB into multiple equal sized files Relieving contention on MessageBox: −R2 BizTalk stored procedures - Hotfix KB −Spread tables and indexes of the BizTalkMsgBoxDb across multiple filegroups / multiple LUNs −Changed schedule of BizTalk ‘Mark Log’ backup job from 15 to 5 minutes Scaling out: −Created dedicated SQL Server instance for BizTalkMsgBoxDb −Moved BizTalkMsgBoxDb to a dedicated Server

BizTalk Optimization Highlights R2 64 bit BizTalk hosts take ~1 minute to restart −Installed KB943165KB Separated hosts (including dedicated tracking host) BizTalk HTTP connections increased from 2 to 50 Disabled Message Delivery throttling Disabled global tracking as in the production site. Reduced the MaxReceiveInterval to 50 ms (default 500 ms) in the adm_ServiceClass table Increased the Internal Message Queue Size from the default value 100 to 1000 for all the BizTalk Hosts Disabled orchestration tracking events Disabled BAM Increased the.NET CLR worker and IO threads for all the in-process hosts Optimized WCF Adapter settings

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