Monitored Device (DataPower Gateway ) Requirements
- DPOD v1.0.10.0 supports only the supported firmware - 7.2.0.20+, 7.5.0.12+ ,7.5.12+ ,7.5.2.12+, 7.6.0.7+, 7.7.1.1+, 2018.4.1.x 2018.4
- However some functionalities are available starting a specific firmware level. For more details please see release notes.
- DPOD supports API Connect v2018.2.5+ 4 (compatibility mode) or v5.0.7.2+If any of the the monitored devices attached to DPOD is to be upgraded to firmware versions 7.6.0.0- 7.6.0.7 API GW Service(also sometimes known as native mode)
- 7.7.1+ you MUST upgrade to DPOD 1.0.5.0+ before the firmware upgrade in order to be able to browse transactions from this device.
If any of the the monitored devices attached to DPOD is to be upgraded to firmware versions 7.6.0.8 OR 7.7.1+ you MUST upgrade to DPOD 1.0.8.0+ 8.0 - 1.0.9.0 before the firmware upgrade in order to be able to browse transactions from this device. - DPOD supports only DataPower with language set to English.
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For a production environment suitable for hypervisor (virtual environment), the virtual appliance is supported on the following VMware hypervisors:
- VMWare ESX v5.5 , ESX v6.0, v6.5
- VMWare Player - v12.0 , v12.5 v14, v15
- VMWare Workstation - v12.0 , v12.5, v14 v14, v15
- VMware Fusion v8.0
- PureApp (only on Intel Processors) - no pattern yet available, can be provided only as an imported OVA.
- For Hyper V support - contact your IBM sales representatives.
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Availability in Edition | Load Configuration Architecture Setup | Goal | TPS Limits recommended(4) | Supports Virtual Env | Cores (1) | Memory (3) | Storage (GB) |
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| Developer | Development | Developers only. In rare cases can be used for functional POCs. restricted license | 2-3 | Yes | 2 | 3 GB | All: 25GB |
Standard | Minimal | POCs and Evaluation. Limited history period to reduce memory requirements | 5 | Yes | 4 | 18 GB | OS: 40 |
| Standard | Low | Environment with low load levels | 40 | Yes | 6 | 32 GB | OS: 40 |
| Standard | Medium | Environment with Moderate load | 80 | Yes | 8 | 64GB | OS: 40 |
| Standard | High | Environment with High load | 120 | Yes, but not recommended | 12 | 128GB | OS: 40 |
| Standard | High_20dv | Environment with Medium load | 200 Can be increased to 1500 TPS(5) | No. Must be installed on a physical server | 16 (Physical) | 200GB | OS: 40 |
| Standard | High_20dv | Environment with High load | 1500 TPS(5) | No. Must be installed on a physical server | 24 (Physical)(5) | 256GB | OS: 40 |
| Standard | High_20dv | Environment with Very High load | 2750 TPS(6) | No. Must be installed on a physical server | Physical(6) | TBD(6) | TBD(6) |
Customers who need to handle more than 1500 TPS will be required to install separated multiple nodesuse a Federated Architecture.
Customers who expect to handle load over 200 TPS will require to start a sizing process by open ticket to IBM Support - L2.
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7 Nodes = 10,500 TPS.
Each DPOD environment (up to 7 nodes) will support no more than 10,000 TPS and up to 7 nodes.
Customers with higher load still are expected to create separate environments, each can handle up to 10,000 TPS.
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(5) To cater for 1500 TPS, customers are required to have 256GB memory, 24 Physical cores (each is Hyper Threaded thus equivalent to a total of 48), Local storage with RAID0 across 4-8 SSD Disks (SAS 6GBs) - each supporting at least 80K Random Write IOPS 4KiB and write avg latency of less than 35 uSec. Two controllers will be required to be attached to each CPU. Please keep ratio between RAM and Data storage size to be 1GB RAM : 16GB Data Disk (recommended) and no more than 1 GB RAM :32GB DISK (minimal).
(5) To cater for 2750 TPS, customers will be provided with specification after a sizing process with L3.
Storage Recommendation
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Operating System Requirements - Only applicable to Non Appliance mode
- CentOS 7.5.0/ 7.4.0 6/7.2.0/7 .6 - x86-64 bit only on supported HW or Hypervisor as stated above
- RHEL 7.2.0 /7.4.06/7.5.0/7 .6 - x86-64 bit only on supported HW or Hypervisor as stated above 454066701. (7.3 is not Supported. 7.2 will be out of support in 2019H2 )
- Server OS must be a fresh install without any other installed products .
- In Non Appliance mode the OS support is not covered but recommendations will be provided.
- Other 3rd party software products for backups, security and monitoring may be installed. However, due to diversity their impact is unknown.
- During resolution of issues, DPOD support will ask the customer to disable these 3rd party tools, so that issues may be isolated and DPOD verified as their source. Support will not be provided if the 3rd party tools are not disabled.
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