Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 1 Machine Sizing and Scalability Mark Nesson, Vashti Ragoonath June 2008

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2 Sizing and Scalability Overview The question of sizing and scalability always comes up.  Let’s talk about sizing  Why is it important  What components need sizing considerations  Machines  Network bandwidth and traffic  File Disks  CPU’s and Speed  WebFOCUS Repositories  Resource Analyzer and Governor  ReportCaster Repository  Schedules  Report Library Content  Data Migrator  MR Realm Driver Repository

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 3 Sizing and Scalability Overview  Let’s talk about Scalability  What is scalability and why is it important  Ability of a site/application to maintain performance, reliability and availability as usage increases.  Why does WebFOCUS scale so well  Non-persistence  Multi-Threading  Native Data Adapters  Superior Data Manipulation Technology  Multi-Tier Configurations  Clustered Servers and Load Management

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 4 Sizing and Scalability Sizing Factors One of the most common questions asked:  How many machines and resources do I need?  The WebFOCUS Architecture will determine how many machines you need to begin with  Benchmarks will determine the capacity of the machines to achieve a scalable and HA system  WebFOCUS Architecture factors to consider:  Placement of Components  Network bandwidth  Failover and Load Balancing requirements  Benchmark factors to consider:  Database Capacity  Queries  Performance Criteria and Target Response Times

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 5 Sizing and Scalability Machine Sizing Factors - Architecture  WebFOCUS Architecture  Central or distributed WebFOCUS configuration  Central – all components on the same machine  Distributed – components are installed on separate machines  Central Configuration  Network traffic not an issue  Contention for resources may be a problem  Single point of failure unless Failover is implemented  Benchmarks a determining factor in scalability

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 6 Sizing and Scalability Machine Sizing Factors - Architecture  WebFOCUS Architecture  Distributed Configuration  Components should be installed with the network bandwidth and traffic in mind  Consider the following:  Do you want any of the WF software on the same machine as your Database (Oracle for example) ?  Do you want the Application server on the same machine as your Reporting Server?  If ReportCaster is in the plan where would you like the Distribution Server – it’s a standalone server so it can be anywhere. Where is best?  Is Failover to be implemented?  Is Load Balancing to be implemented?

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 7 Sizing and Scalability Capacity Sizing Factors - Database  Database Capacity  What’s the network like between:  The Reporting Server and the Databases  The ReportCaster Distribution Server and the ReportCaster DBMS repository  The Application Server and the ReportCaster DBMS repository  The Application Server and the MR Realm Driver DBMS repository  Are the databases optimally tuned ?  Are the databases indexed?  Is the Database server configured to accept a limited number of concurrent connections?

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 8 Sizing and Scalability Capacity Sizing Factors - Queries  Queries and Performance Criteria  What are the queries like  How much data is retrieved  Are the queries CPU intensive  What is the expected average response time for a report  Are they optimized  Benchmark a fair representation of production queries to determine scalability  Repetitive process of tuning and benchmarking  We will be demoing the tuning and repetitive benchmarks in the “Performance and Tuning” presentation

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 9 Sizing and Scalability Repository Sizing  Now let’s move on to repository sizing.  WebFOCUS has a number of repositories:  Resource Analyzer and Governor  ReportCaster Repository  Schedule Information  Report Library Content  Data Migrator (ETL)  MR Realm Driver Repository  We will focus on:  Resource Analyzer  ReportCaster

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 10 Sizing and Scalability Repository Sizing –Resource Analyzer To allocate adequate storage for RA, customer must know:  What data is be captured and stored  How will requests be launched  How many requests will be run  What number of COMPUTEs and DEFINEs are in the procedures to be monitored  What is the retention time for the repository data  How often can the repository be purged IBI can provide customer with guidelines:  The row size for each of the repository tables  Number of rows per table inserted per request  Tables populated for each Monitor Preference

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 11 Sizing and Scalability Demo: RA Storage Utilization  Let’s see a live demo of how much space we need for Resource Analyzer  Our demo is based on a Monitor Preference of Query and Froms because we wish to capture the query details, tables being accessed and the user information  Sample WebFOCUS request that contains one of each statistic collected. The request contains:  Number of:  DEFINEs (1).. counted as a COLUMN  COMPUTEs(1).. counted as a COLUMN  RELATIONs(1)  SQL Passthru (1)  Real COLUMNS (8)

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 12 Sizing and Scalability Demo: RA Storage Utilization  Let’s start…  Capture the space utilized in the Oracle tablespace  Run our sample query  Capture the space utilized in the Oracle tablespace  Run the Oracle ANALYZE command to see how now many rows were populated for each table and number of bytes per row  Now we can use these numbers to get an approximation of space to allocate for RA utilization (number of rows per table by number of requests)

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 13 Sizing and Scalability Repository Sizing –Report Library To allocate adequate storage for RL, customer must know:  Number of schedules with distribution to Report Library  Distributed formats to the Report Library  Scheduling from applet or HTML Wizard  Archiving rules:  How many versions of a report should be kept  How long should versions be kept for  How often can the repository be completely purged

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 14 Sizing and Scalability Demo: RL Storage Utilization  Let’s start with uncompressed data…  Capture the space utilized in the Oracle tablespace  Schedule a job from Applet and distribute to the Report Library in PDF format. Compression flag unchecked  Capture the space utilized in the Oracle tablespace  Run the Oracle ANALYZE command to see how now many rows were populated for each table and number of bytes per row  We look specifically at the to check for size of file in the BOTLDATA table and verify that it is flagged as uncompressed data  Now we can use these numbers to get an approximation of space to allocate uncompressed data for our example

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 15 Sizing and Scalability Demo: RL Storage Utilization  Let’s start with compressed data..  Capture the space utilized in the Oracle tablespace  Schedule same job from Applet and distribute to the Report Library in PDF format. Compression flag should be checked  Capture the space utilized in the Oracle tablespace.  Run the Oracle ANALYZE command to see how now many rows were populated for each table and number of bytes per row  We look specifically at the to check for size of file in the BOTLDATA table and verify that it is flagged as compressed data  Now we can use these numbers to get an approximation of space to allocate compressed data for our example

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 16 Sizing and Scalability Conclusion  This presentation provides guidelines that will vary for each customer and we hope it was useful  Questions and comments