Tài liệu ActuateOne on VMware® vSphere™ 5.0 and vCloud Director 1.5 docx

Revision Summary This version of documents includes the follow ing additional topics:  ActuateOne horizontal scalability testing performed using vCloud Director 1.5 and vSphere 5.0  V

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Table of Contents Revision Summary 3

Introduction 4

VMware and ActuateOne Overview 5

ActuateOne Overview 5

VMware vSphere 6

vCloud Director 7

vFabric Data Director 8

ActuateOne Architecture and Deployment Strategy 10

Testing Process and Results 12

Testing Methodology and Overview 12

Hardware and System Host Configuration 12

Installed Software 13

Virtual Machine Configuration 13

Workload Used 13

Results Observed 13

ActuateOne Scalability Test: 16

Scalability Testing Process and Results 16

Hardware and System Host Configuration 17

Workload Used 17

Results Observed 18

Deployment Best Practices 22

Licensing 23

Technical Support 24

Conclusions 25

Acknowledgements 26

Resources 27

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Revision Summary

This version of documents includes the follow ing additional topics:

 ActuateOne horizontal scalability testing performed using vCloud Director 1.5 and vSphere 5.0

 VMw are vFabric Data Director w as used to provision vPostgres Database and horizontal scalability tests w ere executed using both Postgres and vPostgres database

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Introduction

This document provides direction for those interested in running ActuateOne on VMw are® vSphere™5.0 and VMw are vCloud Director 1.5 It provides basic guidance on the architecture of ActuateOne, and the value of utilizing the VMw are platform for private cloud deployment of ActuateOne behind a corporate firew all This paper covers the results of recent testing done jointly by VMw are and Actuate, and also describes performance and functionality of ActuateOne on VMw are virtual infrastructure In addition, it also outlines some best practices in utilizing the tw o product sets together for your private cloud deployment of ActuateOne

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VMware and ActuateOne Overview

The ActuateOne Platform w ith VMw are vSphere gives enterprises the ability to deploy their Business Intelligence (BI) applications in a unified cloud environment w ith built-in security and role-based access control Together, the joint solution delivers three unique capabilities to the enterprise:

 An efficient and secure approach to using shared infrastructure for servicing highly frequent requests

 A standardized, portable, and extensible approach to enable w orkloads to be deployed w ithout manual configuration and across multiple clouds

 Agile access to shared infrastructure for provisioning w orkloads w hen in demand

ActuateOne Overview

Recognizing the need for seamless, dynamic and accessible Business Information solutions, Actu ate – the co-founder and co-leader of the premier BIRT open source development project – presents ActuateOne This innovative suite of integrated BI products and services features a common architecture for development and deployment that meets the dynamically changing needs of information consumers ActuateOne enables any organization to build and deploy mission critical Business Intelligence and rich information applications These applications can be built for any user, anyw here, w ith a variety of tools based on one user

experience, supported by one server and built w ith one design using BIRT Using value-add design tools:

 End users can modify their view s of data to suit their needs

 Business users can develop their ow n data visualizations, based on templates created by IT and/or developers

 IT and developers can create templates and data visualizations that can be used by business and end users

Users can customize the BIRT content received in any format, including rich visualizations and dashboards,

to meet their ow n needs

Using value-added deployment options, depending on project size, requirements and budget, deployments can be

 Scaled to support any number of employees, customers or partners, using a pre-built platform

 Set up and running in less than an hour

 Cloud ready, providing clustering and elastic provisioning w ith support for a stateless image that allow s administrators to make changes at runtime w ithout service interruptions

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 Consolidation: VMw are technology allow s multiple application servers to be consolidated onto one

physical server, w ith little or no decrease in overall performance

 Ease of Provisioning: VMw are virtualization encapsulates an application into an image that can be

duplicated or moved, greatly reducing the cost of application provisioning and deployment

 Manageability: Virtual machines may be moved from server to server w ith no dow ntime using VMw are®

VMotion™, w hich simplifies common operations like hardw are maintenance and reduces planned dow ntime

 Availability: Unplanned dow ntime can be reduced and higher service levels can be provided to an

application VMw are® High Availability (HA) ensures that in the case of an unplanned hardw are failure, any affected virtual machines are restarted on another host in a VMw are cluster

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Figure 2: Applications in a Virtual Environm ent

vCloud Director

VMw are vCloud Director enables enterprises to build secure, multi-tenant private clouds by pooling infrastructure resources into virtual datacenters vCloud Director enables users to access these resources through w eb based portals and programmatic interfaces as fully automated, catalog-based services For more information on vCloud Director, see the Resources section later in this paper

For ActuateOne, vCloud Director provides the management capability for importing the BIRT application as

a virtual appliance also called a vApp vCloud Director is also used to provision and de-provision the vApp in

a manner that is very consistent and repeatable, w hich significantly reduces ActuateOne set-up time and simplifies deployment

Additionally, ActuateOne deployment can be scaled by continually adding or removing iServer as a virtual machine (also know n as - scaling unit) to a running vApp, w hich contains ActuateOne w orkload in a consistent and secure manner

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Figure 3: VMw are vCloud Director

vFabric Data Director

VMw are’s vFabric Data Director pow ers database-as-a-service for your cloud, thereby reducing the database spraw l and drastically accelerating application development cycles w ith a self -service database provisioning and operations platform vFabric Data Director is an enterprise solution that extends the benefits of VMw are’s leading virtualization platform to the database tier and lets administrators securely automate and delegate routine tasks, including database provisioning, backup, and cloning

The first database supported on Data Director is VMw are vFabric Postgres 9.0 (vPostgres), a new offering from VMw are based on and fully compatible w ith PostgreSQL vPostgres is a vSphere-optimized ACID and ANSI-SQL relational database and is the first of a broad range of commercial and open source databases to

be supported by Data Director These capabilities enable vFabric Data Director to offer the agility of public cloud database services w ith enterprise-grade security, flexibility, control, and compliance

Actuate bundles a PostgreSQL database in their standard distribution for evaluation and small business deployments It also supports other major databases such as Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server Instead of using this Postgres DB instance, w e used VMw are vFabric Data Director to provision a vFabric Postgres 9.0 for our test By doing this, there w as an option to provision our Postgres DB instance from existing Postgres DB templates, w hich define the scale of deployments from small, medium to large How ever, the focus of this test w as to primarily observe at the compatibility and performance aspects of how vPostgres served as the backend database for Actuate iServer The parameters like usability,

manageability, and overall cost savings vFabric vPostgres could pass onto our customers w ere not discussed in this document For more information on vFabric Data Director, you can visit the site

http://w w w vmw are.com/products/application-platform/vfabric-data-director/overview html

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Figure 4: VMw are vFabric Data Dire ctor

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ActuateOne Architecture and Deployment Strategy

Figure 5 illustrates a typical customer solution architecture deploying ActuateOne w ith multi-instance and multi-tenancy in a physical environment

Figure 5: ActuateOne Architecture Design in a Physical Environm ent

The architecture includes all components found in a real-w orld ActuateOne deployment, beyond the iServer:

 Application Server Tier : The ActuateOne Information Console, running on an application server,

relays requests to the Actuate BIRT iServer

 iServer Tier: For BI content generation requests, the Actuate iServer retrieves data from a

database

 Encyclopedia Tier: For BI content view ing requests, the Actuate iServer retrieves the report

document from the iServer Encyclopedia and renders it in HTML The Information Console then presents the results to the end user on the Internet

 Storage Tier: SAN or shared disk arrays can be used to house the iServer Encyclopedia w ith 24x7

reliability

If ActuateOne is deployed in a virtual environment using vCloud Director, the architecture remains the same The main difference is that the physical servers w ould be virtualized in a cloud environment This offers more agility and flexibility to ActuateOne w orkloads as they can be easily scaled out and scaled back on demand Figure 6illustrates the ActuateOne architecture in a virtual environment

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Figure 6: ActuateOne Architecture Design in a Virtual Environm ent

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Testing Process and Results

To characterize the performance of ActuateOne on VMw are Infrastructure, performance tests w ere carried out jointly by VMw are and Actuate The configuration tested and the results are summarized below

Testing Methodology and Overview

The primary testing objective w as to determine w hether ActuateOne BIRT iServer and Information Console products could run more resiliently on VMw are platform ActuateOne w as deployed in a virtual environment, and four tests w ere conducted to validate BI content generation and view ing during the vMotion, VMw are DRS and VMw are HA features

Hardware and System Host Configuration

The follow ing table describes the configuration of ESX host servers and storage in the test configurations

Table 1: ESX Host Hardw are

 HP P4600 iSCSI SAN

 Storage RAID 10

 Netw ork RAID 10

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Installed Software

The follow ing table lists the softw are used in the Actuate solution

Table 2: Installed Softw are

 vFabric Data Director 1.5

 ActuateOne Information Console 11 SP2

Virtual Machine Configuration

The follow ing table describes the configuration of virtual machines running on ESX host servers in the Actuate test configurations

Table 3: Virtual Machine Configuration

ActuateOne BIRT iServer  4 vCPUs

 16 GB RAM ActuateOne Information Console  2 vCPU

Results Observed

Test 1: Load Test With vMotion Activation

A 15-minute load test w as conducted w ith one ActuateOne BIRT iServer and one Information Console instance At the five-minute mark of the load test, vMotion w as activated to move the iServer VM to another ESXi host For both configurations, the average response time and throughput remained w ithin the expected timeframe

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Figure 7: Test 1- Load Test With vMotion Activation

Test 2: Load Test With VMw are DRS

A 30-minute load test w as conducted w ith tw o ActuateOne BIRT iServer and tw o Information Console instances At the 20-minute mark of the load test, the DRS feature w as activated For both configurations, the average response time and throughput remained w ithin the expected timeframe

Table 5: Test 2 - Load Test With VMw are DRS

TI ME P E R I O D AC TI O N AV E R AG E R E S P O N S E TI ME TH R O U G H P U T

Minute 1-17 Load without DRS 0.2 seconds 150 requests/sec Minute 18-20 DRS being activated 7.7 seconds 75 requests/sec Minute 21-30 Load with DRS 0.8 seconds 144 requests/sec

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