Client Requirements
DPOD's web user interface requires the following for administration and end users:
- The Web Console requires a minimum screen resolution of 1280 X 720.
- Supported user web browsers are Firefox , Internet Explorer 11+ , Chrome 50+ , Safari 43+
Monitored Device (DataPower) Requirements
DPOD supports only supported firmware.
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 with language set to english.
Server Requirements
Physical HW or Hypervisor
DPOD can be installed on both 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.
Hypervisor SW
For a production environment suitable for hypervisor (virtual environment), the virtual appliance is supported on the following VMware hypervisors:
- VMWare ESX v5.5 , v6.0
- VMWare Player - v12.0 , v12.5
- VMWare Workstation - v12.0 , v12.5
- 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
Resource Requirements
DPOD offers 6 basic load configuration setups.
- One load configuration architecture setup for development that exists only in the Developer ISO file! The Developer edition ISO file name will be similar to: IBM_DataPower_OpDashboard_Dev<version>.iso
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
The following table lists the typical usage characteristics for each setup edition, and the physical or virtual resources it requires.
Availability in Edition | Load Configuration Architecture Setup | Goal | TPS Limits recommended(4) | Supports Virtual Env | Cores (1) | Memory (3) | Storage (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | Development | Developers only. In rare cases can be used for functional POCs. restricted license | 2-3 | Yes | 2 | 3 GB | All: 20GB |
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) | 20 (Physical)(5) | 256GB | OS: 40 |
Customers who need to handle more than 1500 TPS are required to install multiple nodes.
High Load Example
A customer wants to attach a pool of appliances to DPOD. This pool generates a peak of circa 10,000 TPS.
This customer will need to have 7 physical servers , Intel based , with cpu hyperthreaded, each with 256GB of memory,, 20 physical cores and storage specification as described below.
1 Node = 1500 TPS
7 Nodes = 10,500 TPS.
Customers that plan to use more than one node are expected to submit a sizing questionnaire.
Each DPOD environment (up to 7 nodes) will support no more than 10,000 TPS.
Customers with higher load still are expected to create separate environments, each can handle up to 10,000 TPS.
(1) These could be cores on an 80% utilized ESXi
(2) Local SSD preferred - should be located on a data store separated from the other disks
(3) Best query performance is achieved by using reserved memory configuration
(4) The TPS is the total transaction load across all devices / domains 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.
This normally requires creating a custom architecture based on a sizing process.
(5) To cater for 1500 TPS, customers are required to have 256GB memory, 20 Physical cores (each is HyperThreaded thus brings 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.
Storage Recommendation
- DPOD serves as a database and should therefore be configured to use very fast disks. Therefore, 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.
RAID Support
DPOD does not support CentOS built in RAID (Software Raid) . The only supported RAID is the one handled by 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 3rd party SW products for backups, security and monitoring can be accepted but because of the diversity their impact is unknown.
- When an unwanted situation occurs with DPOD, Support will be provided if customer agreed to disable this 3rd party tools effects so support can isolate and verify that this is only the DPOD issue.
Utility Software for Administrators
An SSH client to connect to the DPOD appliance once installed.
An FTP Client software to upload/edit files in the appliance when required .