Mike, You may want to give Velocity Software a call. They have a suite of products that may fill the bill for you and they are not that expensive. The phone number is (650) 964-8867. I have this software and it is very good at what stats it puts out.
Good luck. Cheers, Loren Charnley, Jr. IT Engineer Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (704) 847-6961 Ext. 2000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Fry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FW: LINUX on VM stats > > All, > > I have recently embarked upon a 'proof-of-concept' study to look at > running > LINUX on a zSeries platform under VM. My part of the project is to size > and > monitor a 'lifted' Unix application that will run on a zSeries platform > (2064-2C8 + 1 IFL engine for the testing). Early testing results have left > me feeling a little concerned by the lack of credible stats coming back > from > the internal LINUX monitoring tools (SAR, PS, TOP etc...) and data coming > out of the z/VM Performance Toolkit. > > Running most applications on the IFL engine makes it run at 100% > utilisation, so I would like to monitor the application response times and > transaction volumes to get a feeling of what the engine can handle and > then > compare the results against the Unix figures. > > I have switched on the z/VM Toolkit 'event and user' stats, and expected > to > see the LINUX guest transaction and response times stats, but they do not > show up on the monitor. > > The question(s) I would like some info on are, > > 1] Is there any way of getting accurate SAR, Accounting stats etc... out > of > z/VM-LINUX guest. > 2] How can I measure the throughput and response times for transactions at > guest level. > 3] Am I doing something wrong? > > If anyone has experience of any of the above, or knows ways of getting > 'good > stats', then I would be very grateful to hear from you. > > Mike Fry > Capacity Planning & SAS Consultant > > Performance & Capacity Support > ISS/Mainframe Infrastructure, Enable > > Tel c/w: 2000 x4813 > Tel ext: 01565 614813 > > > > Internet communications are not secure and therefore the Barclays Group > does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. > Although the Barclays Group operates anti-virus programmes, it does not > accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by > viruses being passed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those > of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Barclays > Group. Replies to this email may be monitored by the Barclays Group > for operational or business reasons. > > Barclays Bank PLC. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services > Authority.
