Zeus Traffic Manager Performance Quick Reference

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Server Hardware

Hardware model SunFireX4100 M2 SunFire X4150 SunFire x4170

Processor 2 x Dual Cor e

Opt ero n 2216

2 x Quad Cor e

Int el Xeon X5460

2 x Quad Core Int el Xeon

X5570

Memory 8Gb 8Gb 12 GB

Networking 8 x 1Gb Et her net 8 x 1Gb Et her net 10Gb

Layer 4 performance

Connections per second 30,600 53,000 105,000

Layer 7 performance

HTTP connections per second 44,200 89,700 155,000

HTTP requests per second (0k) 101,000 213,000 419,000

HTTP requests per second (2k) 66,700 132,000 282,000

HTTP requests per second (8k) 38,600 67,200 141,000*

HTTP max. t hroughput 3.91 Gbit s 5.0 Gbit s 10 Gbit s*

SSL perf orm ance

SSL transactions per second 8,270 17,900 23,100

SSL max. throughput 2.26 Gbit s 4.52 Gbit s 8.4 Gbit s

HTTP cont ent caching perf orm ance

Cache requests per second 185,000 400,000 836,000

Cache max. throughput 7.56 Gbit s 8.0 Gbit s 10 Gbit s*

Compression perf ormance

Compression t hroughput : 8k

files

0.76 Gbit s 1.63 Gbit s 3.70 Gbit s


files

1.06 Gbit s 2.64 Gbit s 4.44 GBit s


files

1.21 Gbit s 3.21 Gbit s 4.46 GBit s

These benchmark tests were conducted in the Zeus testing labs using software clients and servers,with 64-bit Linux and various general-purpose hardware servers.

* Quad-core Xeon X5570: these tests were network bound to 10GBits. Server exhibited up to 70%idle time (Cache Max Throughput tests).


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About the testsLayer 4 performance:

Connections per second measures the sustained rate at which new connections can beestablished from the client to the server, a read-write transaction (HTTP request and zero-byte

response body) conducted and the connection closed.

Layer 7 performance:

HTTP connections per second measures the sustained rate at which new connections can beestablished from the client to the server, an HTTP transaction conducted and the connectionclosed. This test uses keepalive connections to the server nodes.

HTTP requests per second measures the sustained rate of HTTP transactions (0Kb, 2Kb and

8Kb response body) using client-side and server-side keep alive connections.

HTTP max. throughput uses large HTTP responses to measure the maximum sustainedresponse throughput.

SSL perform ance:

SSL transactions per second measures HTTPS requests per second; the test uses 1024 bit RSAkeys, RC4 bulk encryption, small HTTP responses and no session reuse.

SSL max. throughput uses large HTTP responses to measure the maximum sustained SSLresponse throughput. The test uses 1024 bit RSA keys and RC4 bulk encryption.

HTTP cont ent caching perf ormance:

Cache requests per second measures the sustained rate of HTTP transactions (0Kb responsebody) served directly from the Zeus Traffic Manager content cache.

Cache max. throughput serves large HTTP responses from the cache to measure the maximumsustained response throughput.

Compression perf ormance:

Compression throughput tests the rate at which Zeus Traffic Manager can compress HTML filesof various sizes, balancing request handling and bulk compression performance.

Performance ConsiderationsAll benchmarks are carefully constructed to extract the maximum performance from the systemunder test. Real world conditions, such as slow, unreliable network connections, uneven trafficprofiles and deep packet inspection mean that benchmark figures (particularly throughput) may notbe achieved when managing live traffic.

The Zeus KnowledgeHub (http://knowledgehub.zeus.com/) makes a number of recommendations onperformance tuning Zeus software and the following whitepapers from http://www.zeus.com/ may

be useful:

Benchmarking Zeus Traffic Manager

Accelerating Web Applications with Zeus Traffic Manager
http://knowledgehub.zeus.com/http://www.zeus.com/http://www.zeus.com/library/white_papers/benchmarking-zxtm.htmlhttp://www.zeus.com/library/white_papers/benchmarking-zxtm.htmlhttp://www.zeus.com/http://knowledgehub.zeus.com/


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