We have an AIX machine for development that we are looking to logically partition using LPAR. The machine has a 2-way 1.9 GHz POWER5+ Processor Card (2 cpus supposedly really fast), 8gb memory, 900gb disk. We intend to basically partition the machine right down the middle so each would have a dedicated CPU, 4gb memory, and 450gb disk and then have one of the virtual machines running Informatica 5.x and 1 running Informatica 7.x. Does anyone know if these resources will be enough to allow decent performance for each Informatica instance running within each virtual machine?
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Informatica in an LPAR AIX environment
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Uhh,
You mean that you actually expect to need even more just for a development machine?
You might if you develop against full-scale sources, but that's not good strategy, since you want to spend as little time possible to build.
What kind of data to you expect to process?
Unless you are going to do a lot of sorting/ aggregating your specs seem to be okay.
Anyway, just out of curiosity, why both 5.x AND 7.x?
Ties Blom
You mean that you actually expect to need even more just for a development machine?
You might if you develop against full-scale sources, but that's not good strategy, since you want to spend as little time possible to build.
What kind of data to you expect to process?
Unless you are going to do a lot of sorting/ aggregating your specs seem to be okay.
Anyway, just out of curiosity, why both 5.x AND 7.x?
Ties Blom
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Ties,
Thanks for your response. In answer to your question about why both 5.x and 7.x, we are actually upgrading from 5.x to 7.x. We've got a pretty powerful machine (more than we really need for a dev environment) so we decided we could partition this machine (rather than requiring a new server) with one vm as our current dev environment (5.x) and one as our upgrade test environment (which we will port the 5.x stuff to and then execute a pilot run of the 5.x upgrade to 7.x upgrade process). We still need our current dev environment while we test out the upgrade process so this is where we came up with the idea. We will use the test vm then as a new dev platform for a distinctly separate area of the business we will be doing work for once upgrade pilot is done.
Thanks for your response. In answer to your question about why both 5.x and 7.x, we are actually upgrading from 5.x to 7.x. We've got a pretty powerful machine (more than we really need for a dev environment) so we decided we could partition this machine (rather than requiring a new server) with one vm as our current dev environment (5.x) and one as our upgrade test environment (which we will port the 5.x stuff to and then execute a pilot run of the 5.x upgrade to 7.x upgrade process). We still need our current dev environment while we test out the upgrade process so this is where we came up with the idea. We will use the test vm then as a new dev platform for a distinctly separate area of the business we will be doing work for once upgrade pilot is done.
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