Environment

Figure 1: Benchmark architecture

7.6.04 SP1 Benchmark on Dell Windows/SQL Server 2008
Silk Performer
Driver

Client Tier Load Balanced(Simulated)

OS: Windows Server 2008 R2
CPU: 2 cores
RAM: 12 GB
HD: 64 GB
Silk Performer
Agent

Silk Performer
Agent

HTTPS (Port: 443)

Load
Balancer

IP Groupin
Grouping
i g into
i to single
in
sin
i gle subnet
Web/BMC Remedy Mid-Tier Server
OS: Windows Server
2008 R2
CPU: 8 cores
RAM: 8 GB
HD: 200 GB

2 BMC Remedy
Mid-tiers

BMC Atrium Discovery

and Dependency
Mapping Appliance
(VM)

RPC
Load
Balancer

OS: ESX Server

CPU: 4 cores
RAM: 8 GB
HD: 500 GB

RPC

Application Server Tier (BMC

Remedy AR Server Group)

OS: Windows
Server 2008 R2
CPU: 8 cores
RAM: 16 GB
HD: 255 GB
2 BMC Remedy AR
Servers(as a server
group)

Database Tier

Integration Tier (BMC

Remedy AR Server
Group)

OS: Windows
Server 2008 R2
CPU: 8 cores
RAM: 16 GB
HD: 64 GB

Storage Area Network

OS: Windows Server 2008 R2

CPU: 32 cores
RAM: 128 GB
HD: 19TB external storage
DB: SQL Server 2008 64 bit

Storage: Dell

Equalogic. 2
storages attached using
RAID 10

BMC Remedy AR Server

DB

SAN

SAN