Appendix E -- Sample Performance Charts

The performance charts provided in this appendix were produced with the Web Application Stress (WAS) tool in runs against the cluster topologies described in Chapter 10, "Working with Performance Counters." Details about the WAS configuration and server configurations that were used are described in Chapter 8, "Creating Clusters and Deploying Applications."

The performance results shown in the following charts are intended to illustrate Microsoft Application Center 2000 (Application Center) member and cluster-wide performance under specific test conditions. They should be viewed in that light, and performance expectations should not be inferred from these tests.

The following convention is used for labeling performance counter plots:

• A — Processor Utilization
• B — Web GET requests per second

  NOTE

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  An additional convention is the use of a light line for Web GET requests per second plot lines.

• C — ASP requests per second

One-Node Web Cluster with One-Node COM+ Application Cluster

Figure E.1 Performance metrics for the cluster controller, ACDW516AS

Two-Node Web Cluster with One-Node COM+ Application Cluster

Figure E.2 Performance metrics for the cluster controller, ACDW516AS

Figure E.3 Performance metrics for the member, ACDW802AS

Figure E.4 Performance metrics for the cluster, RKWebCluster

Three-Node Web Cluster with One-Node COM+ Application Cluster

Figure E.5 Performance metrics for the cluster controller, ACDW516AS

Figure E.6 Performance metrics for the member, ACDW802AS

Figure E.7 Performance metrics for the member, ACDW518AS

Figure E.8 Performance metrics for the cluster, RKWebCluster

Three-Node Web Cluster with Two-Node COM+ Application Cluster

Web Cluster Performance

Figure E.9 Performance metrics for the cluster controller, ACDW516AS

Figure E.10 Performance metrics for the member, ACDW802AS

Figure E.11 Performance metrics for the member, ACDW518AS

Figure E.12 Performance metrics for the cluster, RKWebCluster

COM+ Application Cluster Performance

Figure E.13 Performance metrics for the cluster controller, ACDW522AS

Figure E.14 Performance metrics for the member, ACDW811AS

Three-Node Web Cluster with Load Balancing Adjusted

Web Cluster Performance

Figure E.15 Performance metrics for the cluster controller, ACDW516AS

Figure E.16 Performance metrics for the member, ACDW802AS

Figure E.17 Performance metrics for the member, ACDW518AS

Figure E.18 Performance metrics for the cluster, RKWebCluster