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Monitored Device (DataPower) Requirements
DPOD supports only the supported firmware detailed in this documentation.
If any of the the monitored devices attached to DPOD is to be upgraded to firmware versions 7.6.+ you MUST upgrade to DPOD 1.0.5.0+ before the firmware upgrade in order to be able to browse transactions from this device.
DPOD supports only DP DataPower with language set to english.
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Physical HW or Hypervisor
DPOD can be installed on both either a Virtualized Environment (Hypervisors) or Physical server (Intel(C) based CPUs and supporting CentOS 7.x OS). Consult the table below for information to support this decision.
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Five load configuration architecture setups that exist for the Standard Edition are available in:
- Appliance Mode (ISO file) - IBM_DataPower_OpDashboard_<version>.iso
Non-Appliance Mode (Compressed Executable file) - IBM_DataPower_OpDashboard_RH_<version>.cef
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Customers who need to handle more than 1500 TPS are will be required to install multiple nodes.
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This customer will need to have 7 intel based physical servers, Intel based , with cpu hyperthreadedhyperthreaded cpus, each with 256GB of memory, , 20 physical cores and storage specification as described below.
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7 Nodes = 10,500 TPS.
Customers that who plan to use more than one node are expected to submit a sizing questionnaire.
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(4) The TPS is the total transaction load across all devices/domains connected connected to DPOD
IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard may also be installed as a custom distributed edition (not All-in-One) that allows installation on several servers located across separate geographical locations.
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(5) To cater for 1500 TPS, customers are required to have 256GB memory, 20 Physical cores (each is HyperThreaded thus brings equivalent to a total of 40), 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.
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- DPOD serves as a database and should therefore be configured to use very fast disks. ThereforeFor this reason, DPOD installation requires 3 separate DISKS for OS , Installatio and Data.
- Usage of slow disks is not recommended and will impact the amount of time between creation of transaction logs and the availability of the data on DPOD's dashboards.
- For Physical hardware installations that can utilize HW RAID services the following setup is recommend:
- RAID5 - 40GB - for OS disk
- RAID5 - 40GB - for App disk
- RAID0 - Depends on volume - for Data disk.
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DPOD does not support the CentOS built-in RAID (Software Raid). The only supported RAID is the one handled by a controller |
Network Requirements
Operating System Requirements - Only applicable to Non Appliance mode
- CentOS 7.2.0 - x86-64 bit or RHEL 7.2.0 - x86-64 bit only .
- 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.
- The existence of other Other 3rd party SW software products for backups, security and monitoring can be accepted but because of the may be installed. However, due to diversity their impact is unknown.
- When an unwanted situation occurs with DPOD, Support will be provided if customer agreed to disable this During resolution of issues, DPOD support will ask the customer to disable these 3rd party tools effects so support can isolate and verify that this is only the DPOD issue, 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.
Utility Software for Administrators
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