| New DIGITAL
Server Systems Provide Absolute Industry-Leading
Performance Levels!! Digital Equipment Corporation’s
newest family members, the DIGITAL Server 7305,
DIGITAL Server 7105, and DIGITAL Server 5305 are
the undisputed industry performance leaders for
running Domino on Windows NT. DIGITAL Server
systems now provide not only the most powerful
Lotus Domino systems, but also the platform that
provides the most cost-effective solutions to
meet your messaging and collaboration needs.
In a series of
recently published audited NotesBench tests,
advantages of running Lotus Domino on Digital
platforms have been demonstrated with;
- Leadership
Windows NT performance
- Leadership
Mail transaction throughput and
cost/transaction on any platform
- Leadership
Groupware B performance and
cost/transaction on all platforms
- Leadership
MailDB performance and cost/transaction
on all platforms
And, for a
comparison with our competitors, we'd like to
suggest that you take a peek for yourself. For
worldwide access on the web you can set your URL
to: www.notesbench.org.
Test Description and
Results
Results for these
systems were obtained using Lotus Development
Corporation’s NotesBench benchmarking tool.
KMDS Technical Associates conducted and verified
the audits. The Lotus defined benchmarks provide
a standard method to determine Notes user loads
on a server configuration and to establish the
maximum number of users that each server can
support. The following graph shows the audited
test results:
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The maximum number
of users supported by a system is determined by
the average response time to the client system.
While the test rules defined by Lotus allow for a
maximum average response time of five seconds,
DIGITAL chooses to use a higher standard than the
industry to determine a successful test by
setting the cutoff criteria to an average
response time of less than one-second. Results
for the systems tested are presented on the next
page. A comparison of other vendor systems using
the Lotus -supplied test software shows a clear
lead for DIGITAL in number of users supported by
processor and performance.
Test Configurations
The systems were
configured with Windows NT V4.0 SP3 and Mail Only
Users Domino versions 4.52B and 4.53. All
components of the Lotus Domino server were
installed and NTFS partitions were used. Disks
were hardware striped to allow for the number of
disks used. Disks were also configured using
multi-channel Mylex controllers (SWXCRs) with
four megabytes of cache memory. Consult with a
DIGITAL Sales Support representative to find the
best system configuration to meet your needs.
The following
table provides information on system resource
usage during testing:
# of Users
|
Server
Type |
# of CPUs
|
Minimum Memory
|
# Disks in Hardware
Stripeset
|
Notes Version
|
NT Version
|
Response Time
|
1950 (Mail)
|
DIGITAL
Server 3200 |
1
|
512 MB
|
14
|
4.52B
|
4.0
SP 3
|
0.381
|
2000 (Mail)
|
DIGITAL
Server 3305 |
1
|
740 MB
|
15
|
4.52B
|
4.0
SP 3
|
0.922
|
4000 (Mail)
|
DIGITAL
Server 5305 |
2
|
1.25 GB
|
21
|
4.52B
|
4.0
SP 3
|
0.23
|
5160 (Mail)
|
DIGITAL
Server 7105 |
4
|
1.6 GB
|
28
|
4.53
|
4.0
SP 3
|
0.264
|
6000 (Mail)
|
DIGITAL
Server 7305 |
4
|
2 GB
|
30
|
4.53
|
4.0
SP 3
|
1.31
|
1400 (MailDB)
|
DIGITAL
Server 3200 |
1
|
512 MB
|
13
|
4.52B
|
4.0
SP 3
|
1.085
|
1600 (MailDB)
|
DIGITAL
Server 3305 |
1
|
566 MB
|
12
|
4.52B
|
4.0
SP 3
|
0.714
|
3100 (MailDB)
|
DIGITAL
Server 5305 |
2
|
1.105 GB
|
18
|
4.52B
|
4.0
SP 3
|
0.25
|
4700 (MailDB)
|
DIGITAL
Server 7305 |
4
|
1.75 GB
|
21
|
4.53
|
4.0
SP 3
|
1.04
|
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