Linux Pilot Project Analysis V5

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Criteria/Vendor Criteria Weighting (1 Sun Solaris 2.9 (each criteria, for each vendor is given a low importance - 5 Sunfire v480 score of 1-poor to 5-high) high importance)

INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS HBA Unit Cost SAN Port Unit Cost SAN Cable Unit Cost NIC Unit Cost Network Port Unit Cost Network Cable Cost KVM Port Cost KVM Cabling Scalability (cost to increase capacity)

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5

1 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 1

SYSTEMS ADMIN - Operational Expense Hardware administration Training costs Effort to increase capacity

2 2

3 2 3

5 2 5

REAL ESTATE AND POWER Cost/KWh # Cables and Ports/U U/Rack SQ FT/Rack Monthly Cost ($/SQ FT)

1 2 2 2 2

1 1 1 2 1

2 3 3 4 4

ANNUAL PORT Annual Network Per Port Annual SAN Per Port

2 2

1 1

1 1

MAINTENANCE HW Maint (%List) Software/OS Maint (% List) Replace/Recover Failed Drives Replace/Recover Failed Fiber Cards Replace/Recover Faulty Memory/CPU Implementation costs (Prof. Svcs, CTG hours) Fault-Tolerance (local failure) DR recoverability time

3 5 1 2 3 5 5 5

CONFIGURATION TIME Frame/Chassis (min/chassis) Server (min/server) Fibre (min/cable) Network (min/cable) Serial (min/cable) Power (min/cable) Software (min/package) SAN Configuration (min/HBA) Equipment costs MTTF

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 3

Sub-Total TOTAL SCORE:

70 70 “weights” X 5 possible pnts per criteria 350 total points possible

Criteria/Vendor (each criteria, for each vendor is given a score of 1-poor to 5-high)

Criteria Weighting (1 low importance 5 high importance)

Capabilities Application support Reliability

4 5

System administration commands and utilities Administering devices and peripherals Methods of installing the operating system Administering software packages and patches Managing user accounts Managing file systems Volume Manager ( Disk Suite or Veritas ) Managing system processes System security Setting up and administering roles Administration Console System monitoring and tuning System Backup and recovery Networked file systems (NFS) Reporting options

3 3 2 3 1 1 3 4 5 3 1 4 5 2 3

Scheduling options Cost of Licensing Training Costs Installation effort Low-level OS Administration Sub-Total TOTAL SCORE:

2 4 2 3 63 74 “weights” X 5 possible pnts per criteria 315 total points possible

Sun Solaris

Redhat Linux Enterprise Server

Criteria/Vendor (each Criteria BEA Weblogic criteria, for each vendor is given a score of 1-poor to 5-high) Weighting (1 Server 6.1 low importance 5 high importance) Capabilities Support Documentation Developer Forums Websites Installation Install Process Configuration/Customization Deployments Hot deployment support Performance Eclipse IDE Integration Security Management Active Directory Integration Management Console Ease of Configuration Out of the box instrumentation/performance metrics/etc. Extensibility Clustering/Load Balancing/Failover Support (if possible) Core Server / JVM / Memory Issues EJB JCA / WTC / Connectors JDBC / Database / Drivers JMS Troubleshooting JSP / Servlet Persistence JAAS JTA / JTS / Transactions Proxy Plugins Security / Authentication WebServices HTTP Session Replication Failures HTTP Load Balance Problems in Cluster Using Proxy Plug-in JDBC Multipool Issues Recompilation of Precompiled JSP Investigating Transaction Problems SSL Product Lifecycle Transaction Response Time Throughput Errors Per Second CPU / Memory Utilization Logging Reporting Cost of Support Cost of Licensing - Application Server Cost vs. Performance Sub-Total TOTAL SCORE:

3 2 1 1 3 2 3 4 3 1 4 3 3 2 2 2 3 4 2 3 1 4 5 2 2 1 3 2 2 1 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 3 2 2 4 4 4 119 119 “weights” X 5 possible pnts per criteria 595 total points possible

JDK EJB JSP JMS J2EE Licensed J2EE Certified

JBOSS 4.02

Criteria/Vendor (each criteria, for each vendor is given a score of 1-poor to 5-high)

Criteria Sun Solaris Weighting (1 low Oracle importance - 5 high importance)

Assumptions § Definition of high level requirements and tasks, which may include o Identification of workload characteristics o Review of capacity planning methods o Stress test of selected application and database architecture o Identification of performance tuning recommendations o Identification of scalability risks § Documentation of existing system baseline

Capabilities Large Table (10+ million rows) Queries High Complex Queries Index Build Times Load/Unload Tables from Flat Files Multi-User Long Running Queries Large Number of Concurrent User Queries Auditing Impact Backup Timings Poor Man's Replication Environment Refresh Ease of Recovery Point in Time Recovery Abnormal Recovery

Sub-Total TOTAL SCORE:

5 5 4 3 4 3 3 3 4 3 3 5 5

50 50 “weights” X 5 possible pnts per criteria 250 total points possible

HPUX Sybase RH Enterprise Server 3 & Oracle

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