Domino 8 performance advantages - report published
October 11 2007
Check out the new Domino 8 performance report on Developerworks. It reveals very significant reductions in I/O utilization compared to Domino 7, and at the same time shows no other significant performance tradeoffs e.g: similar CPU usage compared to Domino 7. To sum up the report conclusions in one line.
"Lotus Domino 8 not only equals, but outperforms the previous release!"
Remember that all of this an be achieved with no changes in your current Domino 7 hardware. This is a very compelling TCO reduction for the cost of a server upgrade. Many of these I/O performance gains are made possible by tuning done within the Notes 8 mail template and by enabling ODS 48 on the server databases.
All the Domino platforms are covered in the report. Actual I/O savings will vary by platform, but here is one quote related to the Windows 2003 platform.
"This test confirms that Lotus Domino 8 improves on the performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) when compared to Lotus Domino 7. Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8 and the Notes 8 mail template showed a reduction of I/O usage in our tests with a decrease of more than 50% total disks reads and writes. "
The reported data is based on the use of a new Notes 8 Notesbench test workload which is described in this new report. IBM Lotus Notes 8 workloads: Taking performance to a new level. This heavier and more realistic workload uses larger mail files and document sizes and adds in loads from other common Domino server tasks such as transaction logging, journaling, Domino Domain Monitoring and more. These new workloads are also now part of the server.load test suite that is available with Domino 8 should you wish to run your own benchmark tests for sizing.
"Lotus Domino 8 not only equals, but outperforms the previous release!"
Remember that all of this an be achieved with no changes in your current Domino 7 hardware. This is a very compelling TCO reduction for the cost of a server upgrade. Many of these I/O performance gains are made possible by tuning done within the Notes 8 mail template and by enabling ODS 48 on the server databases.
All the Domino platforms are covered in the report. Actual I/O savings will vary by platform, but here is one quote related to the Windows 2003 platform.
"This test confirms that Lotus Domino 8 improves on the performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) when compared to Lotus Domino 7. Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8 and the Notes 8 mail template showed a reduction of I/O usage in our tests with a decrease of more than 50% total disks reads and writes. "
The reported data is based on the use of a new Notes 8 Notesbench test workload which is described in this new report. IBM Lotus Notes 8 workloads: Taking performance to a new level. This heavier and more realistic workload uses larger mail files and document sizes and adds in loads from other common Domino server tasks such as transaction logging, journaling, Domino Domain Monitoring and more. These new workloads are also now part of the server.load test suite that is available with Domino 8 should you wish to run your own benchmark tests for sizing.
