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error durring javaserver workload result collection

simonpha — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:16:28 GMT

Hi I've run into this problem with the javaserver workload when completing the workload run. I receive the following error in STAX. It seems to me that the workload completes correctly but when trying to do the result collection it errors out.

20091119-18:55:02 Start JobID: 2, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local, Function: Main, Args: { 'CONFIGFILE' : r'C:\vmmark\VMMARK.CONFIG' }, JobName: smalltest1
20091119-18:55:02 Info Holding block: main
20091119-18:55:02 Info Received RELEASE BLOCK main request
20091119-18:55:02 Info Releasing block: main
20091119-18:55:13 Start Testcase: VMmark Setup
20091119-18:55:36 Stop Testcase: VMmark Setup, ElapsedTime: 00:00:23
20091119-18:55:36 Start Testcase: VMmark Wkld Setup
20091119-18:57:54 Stop Testcase: VMmark Wkld Setup, ElapsedTime: 00:02:18
20091119-18:57:54 Start Testcase: VMmark Run Tiles
20091119-19:53:24 Stop Testcase: VMmark Run Tiles, ElapsedTime: 00:55:30
20091119-19:53:24 Start Testcase: VMmark Results Collection
20091119-19:53:25 Error STAXPythonEvaluationError signal raised. Terminating job.

===== XML Information =====

File: c:\vmmark\xml\javaserver_functions.xml, Machine: local
Line 322: Error in element type "call".

===== Python Error Information =====

com.ibm.staf.service.stax.STAXPythonEvaluationException:

Python object evaluation failed for:
'Info: COPY FILE C:\javaserver_%u.stdout TOFILE %s%sjavaserver_%u.stdout' % (tileserver, gResultsDir[0], gFsep, tileserver)

Traceback (innermost last):
File "<pyEval string>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for __int__: javaserver0
===== Call Stack for STAX Thread 1 =====

[
function: Main (Line: 106, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 16/22 (Line: 128, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
testcase: VMmark Results Collection (Line: 507, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 1/2 (Line: 508, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
iterate: 1/5 0 tilelist (Line: 510, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 1/1 (Line: 511, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
iterate: 2/6 JavaServer gWORKLOADLIST (Line: 513, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
sequence: 2/2 (Line: 514, File: C:\vmmark\xml\vmmark_main.xml, Machine: local://local)
function: GetResultsJavaServer (Line: 227, File: c:\vmmark\xml\javaserver_functions.xml, Machine: local)
sequence: 8/12 (Line: 234, File: c:\vmmark\xml\javaserver_functions.xml, Machine: local)
]
20091119-19:53:25 Info Terminating block: main
20091119-19:53:25 Stop Testcase: VMmark Results Collection, ElapsedTime: 00:00:01
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase: VMmark Run Tiles, Pass: 1, Fail: 0, ElapsedTime: 00:55:30, NumStarts: 1
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase: VMmark Setup, Pass: 1, Fail: 0, ElapsedTime: 00:00:23, NumStarts: 1
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase: VMmark Wkld Setup, Pass: 1, Fail: 0, ElapsedTime: 00:02:18, NumStarts: 1
20091119-19:53:25 Status Testcase Totals: Tests: 3, Pass: 3, Fail: 0
20091119-19:53:25 Status Job Result: None
20091119-19:53:26 Stop JobID: 2

Anyone have any idea what this may be?

Thanks in advance

Tool to measure VMware performance or VMmark

sudiady — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:09:29 GMT

Anyone know any tool to measure a VMware VI3/vSphere setup similar to VMmark?

Thks in advance

Understanding the VMmark Results

eMax04 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:32:53 GMT

Hello all!

I have successfully ran a full VMmark benchmark test and am looking to get some more information about the results, and how to improve them.

The Numbers generated are very vague and the doc I have doesnt say much about how the numbers are calculated. I am looking for some type of calculation that VMmark uses to get the end results. I assume it is somthing like IOPS/total transactions ......etc....

I have a single quad core CPU server with 16 GB of Ram. I am using a back end SAN and am looking to really test the back end SAN vs any of the other components of this.

If anyone has any tips they would be appreciated!!

Thank you in advance!!

Warning: RMI exception trying to contact client0:1098.

eMax04 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:22:05 GMT

Hello All,

Getting an error when running the webserver and java server test... this seems to be related to communicating with the client machine, but I dont understand how it is not working if the client is initiating the command.

This is the end of the webserver log:

2009-11-11 22:52:15:825 RemoteLoadGen: Warning: RMI exception trying to contact client0:1098. Retrying...
2009-11-11 22:52:16:839 RemoteLoadGen: ERROR Unable to contact client0:1098
2009-11-11 22:52:16:839 SpecwebControl: ERROR Client(s) not responding. Aborting test.
2009-11-11 22:52:17:932 RemoteLoadGen: ERROR Remote exception setting server reset data collection from client0:1098
java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 172.24.243.17; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
2009-11-11 22:52:17:932 SpecwebControl: Stopping remote clients...
2009-11-11 22:52:17:932 RemoteLoadGen: 30-second client ramp-down starting...
2009-11-11 22:52:17:948 RemoteLoadGen: stopping client client0:1098
2009-11-11 22:52:18:931 RemoteLoadGen: ERROR Remote exception stopping clients from client0:1098
java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 172.24.243.17; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
2009-11-11 22:52:18:931 SpecwebControl: Waiting for remote clients to stop...
2009-11-11 22:52:20:133 RemoteLoadGen: ERROR Remote exception waiting for clients to complete from client0:1098
java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 172.24.243.17; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
2009-11-11 22:52:20:133 SpecwebControl: ERROR runWorkload() failed!
2009-11-11 22:52:20:133 SpecwebControl: ERROR runTests() failed!
2009-11-11 22:52:20:133 SpecwebControl: ERROR Benchmark run failed!
2009-11-11 22:52:20:149 SpecwebControl: Terminating run. Please wait...

ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED!!!

VCB Configuration Problem

mokarrom — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:16:46 GMT

Dear all Boss,

i am facing some problem to configuring VCB .........Please help me............

my system and action details follows........

38 VM

4
ESX 3.5 and 8 LUN each lun 800GB

1 VC 2.5 with VI Client 2.5

1 Proxy (Windows 2003 Standard Edition
SP1) with 1.5 TB D drive with one HBA

Install VCB v1.1

Then….

diskpart to execute auto mount disable

and auto mount scrub

SSL disable

1. Loginto the backup proxy .

2. change directory to D:\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework
directory.

3. Used vcbVmName tool to enumerate
virtual machine identiﬁers. At the command prompt,

*vcbVmName <IPornameofVirtualCenter> -u <username> -p
<password> -sipaddr:<IPaddressofvirtual machinetobackup>*

4. From the results of running the*vcbVmName tool*, select which identiﬁer
to use (*moref, name, uuid, or ipaddr*)
in the vcbMounter command.

5. At the command prompt,

VcbMounter -h
<IPornameofVirtualCenter> -u <username> -p <password> -a ipaddr:<IPaddress
of virtual machine to backup> -t fullvm -r <VCBproxy backup directory>

After this command I the output is
following ……………

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

D:\VMware\VMware Consolidated
Backup Framework>*vcbmounter -h 10.20.X.25
-u vcb -p 12345678 -r F:\ -a ipaddr:10.20.Y.40 -t fullvm -L 6*

[2009-11-11 20:50:13.937 'App' 916
info] Current working directory: D:\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework

[2009-11-11 20:50:13.937
'BaseLibs' 916 info] HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1
numThreadsPerCore 2.

[2009-11-11 20:50:13.937
'BaseLibs' 916 info] HOSTINFO: This machine has 2 physical CPUS, 2 total cores,
and 4 logical CPUs.

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.281
'vcbMounter' 916 info] Connecting to host 10.20.7.25 on port 443 using protocol
https

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.281
'vcbMounter' 916 trivia] Initializing SSL context

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.281 'BaseLibs'
916 info] Using system libcrypto, version 90709F

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.296 'App' 916
info] Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.296 'SOAP'
916 trivia] Sending soap request to ~~TCP:10.20.X.25:443~~: retrieveContent

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.312
'BaseLibs' 916 warning] SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch:
VMware vs 10.20.X.25

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.312
'BaseLibs' 916 warning] SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host
certificate has these problems:

The host name used for the

connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.312
'BaseLibs' 916 warning] SSLVerifyIsEnabled: failed to read registry value.
Assuming verification is disabled. LastError = 0

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.312
'BaseLibs' 916 warning] SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate
verification is disabled, so connection will proceed des

pite the error

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.515 'SOAP'
916 trivia] Received soap response from ~~TCP:10.20.X.25:443~~: retrieveContent

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.515
'vcbMounter' 916 info] Connected using API Namespace
vim25.

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.515
'vcbMounter' 916 info] Authenticating user vcb

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.515 'SOAP'
916 trivia] Sending soap request to ~~TCP:10.20.X.25:443~~: login

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.531 'SOAP'
916 trivia] Received soap response from ~~TCP:10.20.X.25:443~~: login

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.531
'vcbMounter' 916 info] Logged in!

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546
'vcbMounter' 916 info] Performing SearchIndex find.

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546 'SOAP'
916 trivia] Sending soap request to ~~TCP:10.20.X.25:443~~: retrieveContent

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546 'SOAP'
916 trivia] Received soap response from ~~TCP:10.20.X.25:443~~: retrieveContent

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546 'SOAP'
916 trivia] Sending soap request to ~~TCP:10.20.X.25:443~~: findByIp

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546 'SOAP'
916 trivia] Received soap response from ~~TCP:10.20.X.25:443~~: findByIp

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546
'vcbMounter' 916 info] Got VM
MoRef

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546
'vcbMounter' 916 info] Got access method

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546
'vcbMounter' 916 info] Got coordinator object

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.546
'vcbMounter' 916 info] Attempting data access.

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.562
'vcbMounter' 916 error] Error: F:: Is not a writeable directory.

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.562
'vcbMounter' 916 error] An error occurred, cleaning up...

[2009-11-11 20:50:14.562 'SOAP'
916 trivia] Sending soap request to ~~TCP:10.20.X.25:443~~: logout

D:\VMware\VMware Consolidated
Backup Framework>pause

Press any key to continue . . .

N.B. I am using “Sybex Mastering
VI” and “vcb_partner_integration_guide.pdf”
and “vi3 backup guide.pdf”.

*Please Help me
Step by Step procedure or any correction…………..*

thanks
mcseiu

2 ESX shows Red

mokarrom — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:20:37 GMT

Dear all

i have 4 esx server (total 64 processor/187Ghz 192 GB ram ).
38 VM Run on this
from some days my VI client shows two ESX Red.
current failover capacity 1 hosts (but it was 3 hosts)
configured failover capacity 1 hosts
fully automated
admission control: Don`t allow constraint violations
VI client screen shot attached in this.
My fqdn is 12 chars
VC already restarted by admin.

pls help about this issue.......

thanks

mcseiu

Is there a VMark Dependancy check?

eMax04 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:39:09 GMT

I am building out a VMmark environment with ESX 4.0 and I wanted to know if there is a way I can run through a Dependancy check from the client machine without executing a FULL benchmark test.

I have gone through 2 different tests with it failing at different times due to some minor confiugration errors. Parts of the test take a LONG time and I am trying to just see if i can run somthing that will check all dependancies without issuing the full benchmark commands.

Your help is appreciated thanks!!!!!

Guest in Vm instance

vmmar — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:56:55 GMT

Hi ,

i have Vmware ESX server and in vmclient infracture and there multiple instances running . if right click on any instance , i see shutdown guest and restart guest. What is that guest? shutdown a instance with guest and shutdown with linux command are same?

can pls clear this out

Thanks

SPECweb Wont install on Webserver Template

eMax04 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:12:43 GMT

I just got the SPEC web CD. I have the Webserve template running and when i try to load setup.jar it fails and says it cannot open the file.

I installed the latest version of Java on the machine and when I double click setup.jar it loads the splash screen, i select a language and then the progress bar goes to 75% and then hangs for ever.

Any ideas??? Did i miss a step when configuring the template?

any help is appreciated!

VMmark Client - Exchange Connectivity Errors

eMax04 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:38 GMT

Hello Vmware community!! Your help is much appreciated!

I am configuring a VMmark environment and have an issue with the client connectivity.

Currently it is a single tile environment with a single client machine.

When running Load Sim I am getting these errors:

"0x8004011d] (The attempt to log on to the Microsoft Exchange Server computer has failed.)
Nov 02 22:54:11: Iuaasempaa (MAILSERVER0-61): ERROR: Logon failed: Error: MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER 0x8004011d
Nov 02 22:54:11: Iuaasempaa (MAILSERVER0-61): Recreating profile...
Nov 02 22:54:11: Creating new profile "Iuaasempaa"...
Nov 02 22:54:11: Iuaase2baa (MAILSERVER0-7): ERROR: Open store "Public Folders": Error: MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER 0x8004011d (The attempt to log on to the Microsoft Exchange Server computer has failed.)
Nov 02 22:54:11: Iuaase2baa (MAILSERVER0-7): ERROR: Logon failed: Error: MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER 0x8004011d
Nov 02 22:54:11: Iuaase2baa (MAILSERVER0-7): Recreating profile...
Nov 02 22:54:11: Creating new profile "Iuaase2baa"..."

This error goes on for every single profile. however it seems like in the exchange server I can see a folder under users that says "Loadsim" and has a ton of users in it.

I am far from an exchange guru so I dont know what is going on.

If anyone can provide assistance It would be greatly appreciated.

THANKS!

Password and Username for the downloadable VM's

tom howarth — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:40:10 GMT

does anybody know what is the root password for the Linux servers that are downloadable from the VMmark site> I am using the 1.1.1 versions of the guests.

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Hi Guys.. my VMware get conrinuous reboot

kurva1979 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:37:38 GMT

Hi Friends,

I am using vmware workstation and installed solaris 10, every thing look good for 1 month and later it get loop reboop( it get reboot continuour at GRUB options after 10 seconds) you can find the attachment .. pls can any one help me how to resolve this issue.. as it is very important for me pls guys.. help me to come out from this issue.. tks in Advance...

I keep getting an error message "Error Caused by File"

kevinadavis — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:27:47 GMT

I am brand new to the virtual world and just recently installed blade servers and VMWare. I am running VSphere 4.0. I created my first VM Template and when I try and create a new VM from that template I get an error message "Error Caused by File" and the VM creation terminates. I created a 600 GB volume on my SAN to place the VMs I create so space should not be an issues since I only have my virtual center VM currently in that volume. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank You!

Kevin

VMware dead

newpuiple — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:22:48 GMT

Could you please help me? I could not open my VMware after installed a solaris 10. I got the message when I tried to open the original one windows XP. The message is:"Unable to open file "C:\BI-Web-Pro\BI-Web-Pro.vmdk": One of the disks in this virtual machine is already in use by a virtual machine or by a snapshot."

Thanks for your response!

webserver workload failing with "[FATAL] Exceeded max allowed overthink time" errors

qc4vmware — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:14:30 GMT

I am now getting errors in my webserver run. When I run just this workload I don't seem to get any errors in the .out file. When I run the full tests I first start seeing these:

2009-09-29 15:33:33:019 WorkloadScheduler[7]: Warning: Think time of 2000 msec exceeded by 1984 msec for state 4; total oversleep: 4062 msec

Then see a bunch of these

WorkloadScheduler(90): FATAL Exceeded max allowed overthink time of 121 sec. Please ensure that neither the server or client(s) are overloaded. If server is overloaded, consider reducing the number of SIMULTANEOUS_SESSIONS requested. If client(s) appear overloaded, add more clients.

Any suggestions on how to stabilize this so my runs always complete? The client is a VM but it is on a separate blade in the same chassis. These are HP C class blades with tons of ram and 3ghz processors on them. I am only running one tile at this point.

STAF failing to start in webserver and fileserver systems

qc4vmware — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:01:41 GMT

I just moved a working tile to a different subnet and had to re-ip all of the systems. I don't know if this could possibly have anything to do with staf also not automatically running on boot for the webserver and fileserver systems. When I reboot each system I have to now manually execute the /etc/init.d/start-staf.sh script on both of those nodes. Oddly the database system and all windows system seem to still be working fine. Anyone have an idea on what might have went wrong? I am stumped and it seems like a pretty straight forward thing. Can you point me to a log that might shed some insight?

Paul

What domain name I should add to the client system?

williamtw — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:00:13 GMT

Hi sir,

I want to create a vmmark environment and follow the official document "VMwareR VMmar Benchmarking Guide VMmark 1.1.1" to do, but I met a issue on page 54.

To make this client system part of the mail server virtual machine's domain (page 54)

1 On the client system, open the Start menu, and select Control Panel > System.

2 Select the Computer Name tab.

3 Click the Change button.

4 Under Member of select the Domain radio button.

5 Enter the domain name that you used when you created the mail server domain. This will be the short

name for the mail server (see "Hosts Files" on page 19 for an example).

My domain name of the mailserver0 is "mycompany.com" (Is it right?) so its log name is "mailserver0.mycompany.com". I don't understand what domain name I should add to the client system.

I refer to the Hosts File on page 19, the long name of the client system is "client0.mailserver0.mycompany.com" but I only can add the domain "mycompany.com". So the long name of the client system is "client0.mycompany.com". It seems wrong? (Please see attached files)

Would you please help to solve this issue? Thanks!

Insatllation VMmark and pre requistions

creddya — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:06:28 GMT

Hi every one,

Can any body tell me where i have to install this in ESX Server or any physical machine i can use to create the set up

And tell me setup procedure..

Waiting for ur reply..

Vmark benchmark tool

creddya — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:48:14 GMT

Hi ,

I am new to vmark.Can any one tel me the how to setup the vmark.i have installed staf and stax.if i submit the job in stax.i'm getting this error "error in element script".i am attaching the screenshot of the error...Please help me

Running the client as a vm and yet more on individual workloads failing

qc4vmware — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:26:27 GMT

I am currently in a situation where I don't really have a physical client to use for testing my setup. I have one ESX server with a test tile deployed and on VM setup to the client spec. The ESX host is an 8 core 32GB blade.

I am experiencing similar problems to some of the other folk that have posted on here where I can run each workload individually but it seems like when I try to run all of them one or more will fail. No matter what I seem to do with the startup timing something always bombs out. Initially it was usually the fileserver workload. I moved things about then the java workload was giving me an error saying that it did not run/complete ran for some amount of time but the expected time was whatever duration I had set. I am assuming that job may never have actually started and that was just how long it took to timeout.

I just set this all up this week and I am using the 3.3.4 version of staff, unmodified linux vm's downloaded from the vmware site, and all the latest versions of the other free products that were required, and finally specweb2005 and specjbb2005.

Is having the client run as a vm on the same host causing my problems? It seems like one tile should run just fine with the client as a VM. It may not be a certified spec config for reporting results but I would think it should work for my configuration testing.

wiutyr

mmd7777 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:35:20 GMT

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2. What is the default permission when a partition is formatted with NTFS

bazlina — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:20:49 GMT

1. What is the default permission when a partition is formatted with NTFS

2. What is the best way to secure files and folders that i share on NTFS partitions?

Upgrade Ram to 4Gb on Host But still only see 1.99Gb

kmccarty67 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:29:20 GMT

I have recently upgraded my Host computer to have 4 GB of ram but when I go in to VMware it still only shows 1.99GB, Is there a way to adjust this to see the whole 4 Gb??

VMMark Nehalem Benchmark - effect of memory configuration

volga — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:50:04 GMT

I want to know the effect of memory increase to VMMark score (leaving all cmponents the same, only playing with memory). Performance comparisons will be appreciated.

For example:

Test1: using 6x8GBGB 1333MHz (48GB - 1 DIMM/channel)

Test2: using 12x8GB 10066MHz (96GB - 2 DIMM/channel)

Test3: using 6x8GB + 12x4GB 800MHz (96GB - 3 DIMM/channel)

All balanced configurations.

ESX 3.5 vs. 4.0

Daviduser — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:48:34 GMT

I'm checking out some of the published results from HP and Dell and was wondering what kind of impact using 3.5 versus 4.0 would have. I have done some reading in places such as the VROOM! blog, but don't know if you can make a valid comparison if these two systems are different.

The two results I was looking at had an overall score of 11.23 with ESX 3.5 (8 tiles) and 24.24 with ESX 4.0 (17 tiles). I figured the difference in versions wouldn't count for a lot of the difference in scores.

DNS and VMmark

tbjs — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:33:58 GMT

I am setting up VMmark for the first time, and I am having trouble understanding the dns setup. When configuring the mail server as a domain controller, the instructions tell you to enter the DNS name for the new domain, saying "this should be the FQDN in the format "mailserverN.yourcompany.com". So am I to assume this is my dns domain suffix? If so, why does only client0 follow this convention in the sample hosts file: client0.mailserver0.yourcompany.com, while all other are in the format "server.yourcompany.com" ? Maybe there is a difference in the concept of "domain" between active directory and dns?

FYI, I have completed the setup, but when I kick off the benchmark it fails trying to ping the server names (webserver0, mailserver0, etc) I am sure there is something wrong with my dns setup, so that is why I am trying to understand what I am looking at. Admittedly, I have not used Windows much, so AD and Exchange are a mystery to me.

Thanks,

Tom

VMmark result

Iwan Rahabok — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:29:58 GMT

Hi,

Say there are 2 results:

Result 1: 20@10 tiles.

Result 2: 10@15 tiles

Does it mean box 1 is 2x better than box 1? Naturally we are basing on benchmark workload, not other workload.

Another question: what does the result mean/imply in real life? For example, how do we translate the score of 1400 in mail server component to #mail boxes (heavy users)?Just wanna have some sense on what the number means, that's all.

Thank you

ping v pc from other pc on the network

thunderbird2009 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:38:01 GMT

hello ,

i hope this is the right passe to post and to find some one can help me to find solution for this problem

my system is xp sp3 comodo firewall

hardware q6600 pk5 4GB

the v pc is openbsd ,connected with bridge configuration .

i could ping my gust pc from host machine , could ping my host machine from gust and i has internet,

but i could not ping my v pc from other pc on my network

i triad to turn off my firewall

VMmark Run Hanging

iastadams — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:30:11 GMT

I've tried running my first test of the VMmark environment and it seems to be haging. The test makes it all the way through the setup but the run stalls at the mailserverclient workload. The 5-minute test has been running for over 90 minutes now. I've attached a screenshot of the STAX monitor screen and the VMMARK.CONFIG that I used to run the test. Does anyone know how I can troubleshoot this? The LoadSim windows never comes up.

VMmark and benchmarking of Hyper V and XEN

maksaraswat — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:47:38 GMT

Hi,

I am doing my final graduate directed project and I need to know whether VMmark can be used to benchmark virtual machines created on/by Hyper V and XEN?

Thanks in advance.

Maksaraswat

VMmark 1.1.1 updated

lroderic — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:35:08 GMT

Hello.

We've updated the VMmark 1.1.1 kit to include a revised java functions XML file as well as a revised VMmark Run and Reporting Rules. The VMmark 1.1.1 kit at the VMmark Download page has been updated to include these two files.

If you've already installed VMmark 1.1.1, you can copy just the changed XML file by clicking here: Java Server Functions (zip file). Unzip the file and replace the existing javaserver_functions.xml file in the c:\vmmark\xml\ directory with this file.

Happy benchmarking!

Regards,
Lisa

Problems with file server workload

iastadams — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:54:23 GMT

I've been trying to get a vmmark 1.1.1 environment up and running. All components are working except the STAF process on the file server workloads. I used the pre-built virtual machine downloaded from the website. The only change besides the subsequent configuration was to update the STAF to version 3.3.3 to match the other clients. I performed the same process on the database server workload and had no problems. Below is an output of the various log files and config files. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

fileserver0:/usr/local/staf # cat /tmp/start-staf.out
/etc/init.d/start-staf.sh: line 15: /usr/local/staf/bin/STAFProc: cannot execute binary file

fileserver0:/usr/local/staf # ls -la /usr/local/staf/bin/
total 3151
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 544 Jun 11 09:27 .
drwxrwxr-x 9 root root 448 Jun 11 09:38 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2367 Jun 11 09:27 CAList.crt
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 49461 Jun 11 09:27 FmtLog
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 47954 Jun 11 09:27 PLSTAF.pm
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6991 Jun 11 09:27 PLSTAFService.pm
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 84330 Jun 11 09:27 STAF
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1596 Jun 11 09:30 STAF.cfg
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1566 Jun 11 09:27 STAF.pl
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1543 Jun 11 09:27 STAF2.pl
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1070 Jun 11 09:27 STAFDefault.crt
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 887 Jun 11 09:27 STAFDefault.key
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30368 Jun 11 09:27 STAFExecProxy
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 5173 Jun 11 09:27 STAFLog.pm
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 23115 Jun 11 09:27 STAFLoop
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2735 Jun 11 09:27 STAFMon.pm
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2884223 Jun 11 09:27 STAFProc
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 40992 Jun 11 09:27 STAFReg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jun 11 09:27 fmtlog -> /usr/local/staf/bin/FmtLog
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jun 11 09:27 staf -> /usr/local/staf/bin/STAF

fileserver0:/usr/local/staf # cat /etc/init.d/start-staf.sh
#!/bin/sh
# STAF environment variables for 3.1.2
PATH=/usr/local/staf/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/staf/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
CLASSPATH=/usr/local/staf/lib/JSTAF.jar:/usr/local/staf/samples/demo/STAFDemo.jar:$CLASSPATH
STAFCONVDIR=/usr/local/staf/codepage
if [ $# = 0 ]
then
STAF_INSTANCE_NAME=STAF
else
STAF_INSTANCE_NAME=$1
fi
export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH CLASSPATH STAFCONVDIR STAF_INSTANCE_NAME

/usr/local/staf/bin/STAFProc > /tmp/start-staf.out 2>&1 &

fileserver0:/usr/local/staf # cat /usr/local/staf/bin/STAF.cfg
# Sample VMMARK STAF.cfg for Linux-based Virtual Machines
# (workloads: webserver, database, or fileserver)
#
# Copyright (c) 2006 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

# Turn on tracing of internal errors and deprecated options
trace enable tracepoints "error deprecated"

# Enable TCP/IP connections
interface tcp library STAFTCP

# Set default local trust
trust machine local://local level 5

# Add trust to allow remote commands and file copying.
# In trust commands below replace the "yourcompany.com"
# with the correct naming for your network.
#
# Set trust for the primeclient (usually client0)
trust machine client0.yourcompany.com level 5
# Set trust for this Tile's Client -
# Substitute the correct Tile Index for the "N" below
trust machine client0.iaslab.com level 5

# Alternatively, if on a dedicated network, you can
# set trust level for the Network instead of setting
# trust level for each individual machine. For example,
# to trust all hosts in the 192.168.100 network:
trust machine tcp://10.10.101.* level 5

# Default Service Loader Service
serviceloader library STAFDSLS

#Uncomment and Edit to match ipalias for system
MACHINENICKNAME fileserver0

# Windows OS only
# SET DEFAULTSTOPUSING WM_CLOSE

# Services needed by prime client to run STAX and STAXMonitor
#
# Comment out on other clients or VMs
#service stax library JSTAF execute \
# /usr/local/staf/services/stax/STAX.jar \
# parms "numthreads 100"

#service event library JSTAF execute \
# /usr/local/staf/services/stax/STAFEvent.jar

SET MAXQUEUESIZE 10000

fileserver0:/usr/local/staf # cat /etc/hosts

# Sample hosts file
#
# Update to reflect your test lab network naming and IP addresses
# and extend for the number of tiles you plan to run.
# Use to update: C:\WINDOWS\system32\etc\hosts on Windows clients and VMs
# Use to update: /etc/hosts on Linux VMs
#
#IP address long name short name
#==============================================================================
# tile 0
10.10.101.10 mailserver0.iaslab.com mailserver0 #W2K3 domain cont.
10.10.101.11 javaserver0.iaslab.com javaserver0 #W2K3
10.10.101.12 standby0.iaslab.com standby0 #W2K3
10.10.101.13 webserver0.iaslab.com webserver0 #Linux
10.10.101.14 database0.iaslab.com database0 #Linux
10.10.101.15 fileserver0.iaslab.com fileserver0 #Linux
10.10.101.16 client0.mailserver0.iaslab.com client0 #W2K3
# tile 1
10.10.101.20 mailserver1.iaslab.com mailserver1 #W2K3 domain cont.
10.10.101.21 javaserver1.iaslab.com javaserver1 #W2K3
10.10.101.22 standby1.iaslab.com standby1 #W2K3
10.10.101.23 webserver1.iaslab.com webserver1 #Linux
10.10.101.24 database1.iaslab.com database1 #Linux
10.10.101.25 fileserver1.iaslab.com fileserver1 #Linux
10.10.101.26 client1.mailserver1.iaslab.com client1 #W2K3
# tile 2
10.10.101.30 mailserver2.iaslab.com mailserver2 #W2K3 domain cont.
10.10.101.31 javaserver2.iaslab.com javaserver2 #W2K3
10.10.101.32 standby2.iaslab.com standby2 #W2K3
10.10.101.33 webserver2.iaslab.com webserver2 #Linux
10.10.101.34 database2.iaslab.com database2 #Linux
10.10.101.35 fileserver2.iaslab.com fileserver2 #Linux
10.10.101.36 client2.mailserver2.iaslab.com client2 #W2K3
# tile 3
10.10.101.30 mailserver2.iaslab.com mailserver2 #W2K3 domain cont.
10.10.101.31 javaserver2.iaslab.com javaserver2 #W2K3
10.10.101.32 standby2.iaslab.com standby2 #W2K3
10.10.101.33 webserver2.iaslab.com webserver2 #Linux
10.10.101.34 database2.iaslab.com database2 #Linux
10.10.101.35 fileserver2.iaslab.com fileserver2 #Linux
10.10.101.36 client2.mailserver2.iaslab.com client2 #W2K3

Questionable result in VMmark webserver test

Theovd — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:12:48 GMT

Hi all,

I have a question with respect to running VMmark: The output file for the webserver test shows some warning from which I do not know whether they are normal or not. webserver0.wrf shows:

Test Summary ***

Sessions: 100; Total requests: 370078
TIME_GOOD: 100,00%; TIME_TOLERABLE: 100,00%; Total errors: 19211
2009-06-04 01:52:19:169 ReportGen: Creating report results\SPECweb_Ecommerce.20090603-224922.html from results\SPECweb_Ecommerce.20090603-224922.raw
2009-06-04 01:52:19:216 ResultsFile: Invalid configuration!
Warning: No results for cart.REQUESTS 0 0 -1
Warning: No results for login.REQUESTS 0 0 -1
Warning: No results for shipping.REQUESTS 0 0 -1
Warning: No results for billing.REQUESTS 0 0 -1
Warning: No results for confirm.REQUESTS 0 0 -1
2009-06-04 01:52:19:356 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (-1,55%) for index in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 53183 requests, Actual: 59479
2009-06-04 01:52:19:356 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (-1,38%) for browse in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 47776 requests, Actual: 53382
2009-06-04 01:52:19:356 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (-1,14%) for browse_productline in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 40759 requests, Actual: 45391
2009-06-04 01:52:19:356 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (-2,01%) for customize1 in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 68827 requests, Actual: 77001
2009-06-04 01:52:19:356 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (-1,08%) for customize2 in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 36374 requests, Actual: 40779
2009-06-04 01:52:19:356 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (5,30%) for cart in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 21531 requests, Actual: 0
2009-06-04 01:52:19:356 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (3,78%) for login in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 15356 requests, Actual: 0
2009-06-04 01:52:19:356 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (3,55%) for shipping in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 14440 requests, Actual: 0
2009-06-04 01:52:19:356 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (3,37%) for billing in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 13716 requests, Actual: 0
2009-06-04 01:52:19:356 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (2,54%) for confirm in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 10304 requests, Actual: 0
2009-06-04 01:52:19:356 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Sum of weighted percentage difference (8,96%) exceeds 1.5% for Iteration 1
2009-06-04 01:52:19:372 ReportGen: Creating report results\SPECweb_Ecommerce.20090603-224922.txt from results\SPECweb_Ecommerce.20090603-224922.raw
2009-06-04 01:52:19:388 ResultsFile: Invalid configuration!
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (-1,55%) for index in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 53183 requests, Actual: 59479
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (-1,38%) for browse in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 47776 requests, Actual: 53382
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (-1,14%) for browse_productline in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 40759 requests, Actual: 45391
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (-2,01%) for customize1 in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 68827 requests, Actual: 77001
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (-1,08%) for customize2 in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 36374 requests, Actual: 40779
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (5,30%) for cart in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 21531 requests, Actual: 0
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (3,78%) for login in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 15356 requests, Actual: 0
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (3,55%) for shipping in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 14440 requests, Actual: 0
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (3,37%) for billing in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 13716 requests, Actual: 0
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Weighted percentage difference (2,54%) for confirm in Iteration 1 is too high. Expected: 10304 requests, Actual: 0
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 ResultsFile: Invalid Run! Sum of weighted percentage difference (8,96%) exceeds 1.5% for Iteration 1
2009-06-04 01:52:19:513 SpecwebControl: Killing clients...
2009-06-04 01:52:19:638 SpecwebControl: ******* SPECweb2005 benchmark completed
2009-06-04 01:52:19:638 SpecwebControl: Terminating run. Please wait...

The warnings, 'Invalid run' and actual of 0 for cart, login, shipping, billing, confirm does me feel that somethings go wrong. Has someone any idea what?

WE are running vmmark 1.1.1 and SPECweb 2005 1.20

Vmark

Rohail2004 — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:16:00 GMT

anyone using it? how does it work? help would be greatly apperciated

New Intel 5500 series processor

david.king@macombcountymi.gov — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:10:19 GMT

Has anyone done a vmmark with this new processor? We're going to be buidling a VM farm to replace about 120 servers. We'd like to use the new processor, but I'd like to know which manufacturer performs the best with the new processor.

thanks

vmware & vista

missvwbugs54 — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:31:42 GMT

Unable to access vista from fusion. Keeps asking for username & password. Nothing I put there works. any ideas??? Vickie

TEST DL785 32 Core + 128 Go RAM

ludovicp — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:32:17 GMT

Hello,

We would like create VMMark environement for test Big Machine with 32 core and 128 go ram.

In VMmark environment there is 7 VM I see on Vmwark Result for this type of server 19 or 20 Title.
Eache titles containts the 7 vm.

If i calculate correctly i must install 140 VM and I need 1600 Go of space to make test.

Could you comfirm this... i need many time for install this environement....

Thanks

Ludovic

SPECjbb2005 1.0.7 setup.jar: Could not load winAMD64ppk.dll

Paul.Brannon — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:59:44 GMT

I'm having trouble installing the SPECjbb2005 into my VMmark javaserver0.

Running the SPECjbb2005 setup.exe brings up a window with "Errors occurred during installation" and ". null". This follows the prompt for a suitable JVM. Installation never makes it as far as the Install Wizard.

Running the command line "java -jar setup.jar" spews out lines of text starting with:
"Unable to initialize service systemUtilService. Could not load native JNI DLL winAMD64ppk.dll"
followed by additional failures to initialize services due to the inability to load winAMD64ppk.dll.

I'm running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition with Service Pack 2

java -version reports
"Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_14-b03)
BEA JRockit(R) (build R27.5.0-110_o-99226-1.5.0_14-20080528-1505-windows-x86_64,
compiled mode)"

I tried this first with a VM I built in Fusion. Then I performed just the steps that load the OS, JRockit, and the SPECjbb2005 on a VM created in ESX 3.5. Identical failures in both machines.

Has anyone else seen this?

thanks,
paul

HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieves #1 virtualization performance result on VMmark benchmark ( http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html )

aaklea — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:26:52 GMT

HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieves #1 virtualization performance result on VMmark benchmark

( http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html )

Duration of a VMmark Run?

herevirtually — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:42:59 GMT

Hi,

I would like to get an approximate answer in relation to how long it takes for a VMmark run to complete e.g. on a machine such as a 4 X quad-core (i.e. 16 core total)? Assume running an average (based on the VMmark results page) number of tiles for this machine i.e. 11-14 tiles simultaneously ... in approximate terms, would this be minutes, hours or days?

Thanks,

herevirtually.

Planning to move VMmark Community under VMTN > General > Performance

Badsah — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:55:41 GMT

After
receiving feedback from the community, we are planning to move the
VMmark community under the Performance community, as a sub-community.
This is a heads-up, although we will set up a redirect.

Thanks,
Badsah

---
Badsah Mukherji
VMware Web Communities Team

What about a VMware Storage Benchmark for Several Storage Vendors ?

meistermn — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:06:32 GMT

I like the VMMARK Benchmark for Servers, now will there be VMware Benchmark for Storage Systems .

This would be great. The Spec results for physical Storage System Benchmarks are not helpful.

where can I find the BEA JRockit?

ekrejci — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:54:47 GMT

Hi,

I'm tring to build a vmmark infra and I'm stuck with the BEA JRockit part of the client preparation.

I went to http://commerce.bea.com/ with no success to download the jrockit 5.

can someone help me out with this one?

thanks

Running / Troubleshooting the test harness ?

webcrew — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:58:30 GMT

Hi,

Currently I'm refererring to the 'Running the VMmark Benchmark' section of the guide. However, its crossed my mind to check and see if there is a more current resource?

1. Is there a 'checklist' of items to ensure (i.e applications running, etc.) prior to starting the test harness ?

2. As the test harness is started, errors occur (see example below) Is there a section of the guide or other resources to assist in resolving these ? I'm really asking about most current resources to augment my trouble shooting skills and tools ? As seen in example below, its understood that not all errors can be addressed in 'Troubleshooting' section of the guide.

20090211-11:58:11 STAXUtilImportSTAFConfigVars failed. RC=1 ErrorList='STAF/Config/Sep/Path', '{STAF/Config/MachineNickname}', 16, 'STAFConnectionProviderConnect: Error resolving host name: Error getting hostent structure for host name: client0, gethostbyname() RC=11004: 22, Endpoint: ssl://client0', 'STAF/Config/OS/Name', '{STAF/Config/MachineNickname}', 16, 'STAFConnectionProviderConnect: Error resolving host name: Error getting hostent structure for host name: client0, gethostbyname() RC=11004: 22, Endpoint: ssl://client0', 'STAF/Config/OS/MajorVersion', '{STAF/Config/MachineNickname}', 16, 'STAFConnectionProviderConnect: Error resolving host name: Error getting hostent structure for host name: client0, gethostbyname() RC=11004: 22, Endpoint: ssl://client0', 'STAF/Config/OS/Revision', '{STAF/Config/MachineNickname}', 16, 'STAFConnectionProviderConnect: Error resolving host name: Error getting hostent structure for host name: client0, gethostbyname() RC=11004: 22, Endpoint: ssl://client0', 'STAF/Config/Sep/Line', '{STAF/Config/MachineNickname}', 16, 'STAFConnectionProviderConnect: Error resolving host name: Error getting hostent structure for host name: client0, gethostbyname() RC=11004: 22, Endpoint: ssl://client0', 'STAF/Config/Sep/File', '{STAF/Config/MachineNickname}', 16, 'STAFConnectionProviderConnect: Error resolving host name: Error getting hostent structure for host name: client0, gethostbyname() RC=11004: 22, Endpoint: ssl://client0', 'STAF/Config/OS/MinorVersion', '{STAF/Config/MachineNickname}', 16, 'STAFConnectionProviderConnect: Error resolving host name: Error getting hostent structure for host name: client0, gethostbyname() RC=11004: 22, Endpoint: ssl://client0'

WebServer Template?

webcrew — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:47:20 GMT

the pre-built webserver VM hangs during the boot process. Once this VM is powered on it begins to boot to SLES10, yet hangs during power up ?

Neither the 'readme', nor Appendix F (of Benchmarking Guide) provide further insight in resolving this. Its confirmed that there is enough disk space on ESX server and the virtual disk is properly referencing the datastore name. It would appear that this VM gos is trying to boot DHCP, while my environment is static IP, yet this shouldn't cause a hang ?

Any suggestions ?

Cygwin environment install - 'Install to local directory' option must be selected

webcrew — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:38:03 GMT

I'm having problems with the Cygwin environment installation on clients (benchmarking guide pg. 63). Here are a couple of problems currently being encountered:

1) when following step 1 after '*To configure the Cygwin environment*', once the Cygwin Bash Shell is opened a command prompt is quickly opened, then closes.

2) Also the 'cygserver-config' command (mentioned in the next step of Benchmarking Guide) cannot be found ?

2) Upon removal and reinstallation of the product and repeating the above step an error dialog indicates ".... .application .... failed .... cygwin1.dll .... not found ....."

Above problems are not encountered when doing the following :

1) (after '*Install the Cygwin Environment*', step 2) choose 'Install from Local Directory', rather the going with default (as indicated in the guide, step 2), while running cygwin setup,

Tilescore.pl and SPECweb2005 v1.20

psmith2006 — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:50:36 GMT

SPEC recently started shipping SPECweb2005 v1.20. The new
release changes the format of the polling data used by
VMmark to collect measurement data for the webserver workload.
Due to this change if you are using v1.20 in place of v1.10
you will need to update the VMmark tilescore scripts which
are attached to this message. If you have v1.10 you should
continue using the existing scripts that are in VMmark v1.0.

Where are the new vmmark results for sun servers?

meistermn — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:24:55 GMT

SUN VMmark results are missing for X4600 M2 with 32 Cores with AMD Shanghai CPU

Although no vmmark results for Sun Fire X4240 (2 Socket) and X4440 (4 Socket) with AMD Shanghai 2.7 GHZ

For Intel allthough no vmmark results : Missing SUN Fire X4250 and X4450.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html

http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4440/

4 tiles got 4.91 scores but 5 tiles got 5.25 scores?

clemenslee — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:36:57 GMT

Hi all

As my subject said, why the score become low at 5 tiles?

My configuration

AMD 2360SEx2

DDR2-667 64GB RDIMM

LSI 8708ELPx2

SAS 450G 15k x8

SAS 300G 15k x8

INTEL 1000PT dual port LAN

Nvidia 1G LAN x2

What should I change if I wanna get better score at 5 & 6 tiles?

More HBA? More HDDs?

Where can download VMDq(NETqueue)?

clemenslee — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:58:32 GMT

Where can download VMDq driver and how to install on ESX server?

Where's SPECweb_Ecommerce.Unix-PHP.config?

shikaka — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:29:08 GMT

I don't find it after SPECweb2005 v1.2 installed, neither Test.Unix-PHP.config.

Only SPECweb_Ecommerce.config and Test.config in SPECweb2005 folder.

Are they different(with and without *Unix-PHP*)?Because I cannot get the same result as yours in webserver$n.wrf.

VMmark - Appliances?

cpfcg — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:28:47 GMT

Is it just me or has anyone wondered why VMware has not issues Virtual Appliances for the VMmark benchmarking tool? Any thoughts you all?

How to stop STAF(STAX) smoothly

clemenslee — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:46:01 GMT

When run vmmark, if I find the mailserver tesk pending over 10000, how can I stop all running scripts smoothly?

tgz Uncompress error

jeleberger — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:42:22 GMT

Hi All,

Infos : VMmark version : Latest Released Version: 1.0 | 07/23/07 | 20070712

I want to try VMmark in a lab.
After download the fist preconfigurate-VM (Database Server Template (.tgz)) from the VMware website, i try to decompress this file on the ESX service console.

I use this command line to do this step :

tar zxf VMmark-DatabaseServerTemplate-20070712.tgz

..end I became this error message :

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I try to do the same on a Windows with 7-zip with the same result.
I try this all operation on more OS and Internet access.

Any experience on this situation ?

Execute STAX has an error message

clemenslee — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:52:01 GMT

Hi VMmark user

I face a problem.

I configure VMmark workload and client completed.

When I execute STAX, it shows "LIST JOBS requests failed with RC=2 Result=STAX".

Does anyone have this problem?

workload hangs at "mailserverclient"

Notti — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:33:03 GMT

Hi all,

I am running a workload only with mailserver, standby, database and fileserver within two tiles.
During several Bechmarking tries I always experienced the following problem:

The Benchmark always "hangs" / runs forever at the job element "mailserverclient" for both Tiles.
The output file mailserverclient_0.stdout is empty on both clients.

mailserver_functions.xml says for mailserverclient:
<sequence>
<call function="'debugSTAXUtilLogAndMsg'">
'Info: Request: run mailserver %s' % (cmd)
</call>

<script>
pnMailserverclient = "Tile %u: mailserverclient" % tilenumber
</script>
<process name='pnMailserverclient'>
<location>'%s ' % gCLIENTStilenumber</location>
<command mode="'shell'">cmd</command>
<parms>'-f %s%svmmark.sim -r -x' % (ClientWorkdir, gFsep)</parms>
<workdir>ClientWorkdir</workdir>
<stdout>'C:\mailserverclient_%u.stdout' % tilenumber</stdout>
<stderr mode="'stdout'"/>
<returnstdout/>
</process>

<call-with-map function="'CheckProcess'">
<call-map-arg name="'processId'">"%s" % pnMailserverclient</call-map-arg>
</call-with-map>

<if expr="RC != 0">
<script> runErrors += 1</script>
</if>

</sequence>

What does this part of the script do here? Can I run this stuff manually?

EDIT: I was able to start the LoadSim -f %s vmmark.sim -r -x manually from both clients with domain admin rights.
Could it be a authorization problem with client/mailserver? LoadSim only runs under domain admin rights / Exchange 2003 Admin...
*Is there any idea how to grant these rights automatically or add new users on all relevant clients/VMs?**

BUT it still does not work with the above described soulution....Can you please give some adivse regarding further investigation or more information for a detailed research.
I do not see more options within the Testenvironment to identify the issue.

Thank you very much for the help and best regards from Germany!!

Notti

workload hangs at "mailserverclient"

dsynnott — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:18:48 GMT

I am having a similar workload hang as other thread with this title. I've configured the test for single workload to debug the mailserver test configuration. I have configured VMMARK.CONFIG to run the test 300 seconds. I am logged into client0, prime client, as Domain Administrator.

Current run has run for 60 minutes without results and the test appears to be 'hung.' There are no changes on the mailserver0 E:\ directory exchange database files, which indicates no activity.

Currently the active Job Elements are Tile 0: mailserverclient
The last two logged messages are:

20080505-05:29:21 Info: Request typeperf"-y -si 60 -sc 7 -o C:\\vclient0\mailserver\mailserver0.wrf "\LoadsimAction(_Total)Number of actions""
20080505-05:29:21 Info: Request run mailserver START /AFFINITY 2 /WAIT C:\progra~1\Loadsim\loadsim

When I cancel run, no data is collected, even if I re-run the job with RESCUE=1 and CLEANUPFLAG=0.

I am able to run "LoadSim -f C:\tmp\vmmark.sim -r -z" from cmd tool. I am logged in as domain administrator. The LoadSim execution seems to begin logging in to each of the exchange server accounts previously created. I stop execution pretty quickly.

There isn't a time drift on these systems. DNS does not appear to be issue.

I am at a loss as to how to debug issue. Any hints?

VMmark Wkld Setup failed mailserver 'remove old files' and 'do restore failed'

dsynnott — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:56:29 GMT

VMmark is configured according to Benchmark guide. I'm running 5 minute test to shake out configuration errors. What are these WKld setup steps doing? How do I trouble shoot?

Steps taken:

1. I've configured VMmark.config DEBUGFLAG=1 on the prime client.

2. I've enabled logging features under job.

Related info:
Other VMs in the tile succeed or pass VMmark Wkld Setup.

Tile to Client Ratio

polysulfide — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:07:11 GMT

I read somewhere in the documentation that a client system could run as the client for more than one tile if host aliases were setup properly.

When looking to do 8 or more tiles I'm starting to wonder if I can do 2-3 tiles per client and if that would give me accurate results?

Also.... can loadsim run its .sim files on a different host than the test was initialized under? That seems like the most significant issue technically.

Default Values in vmmark 1.0

polysulfide — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:26:53 GMT

This is my first run a a full tile in vmmark. I'm getting the infamous start-time error in my results. I verified that all workloads completed successfully and have a wrf file.

Opening the webserver0.wrf file I see these errors:

2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable TEST_TYPE
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable BESIM_INIT_SCRIPT
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable SMARTY_DIR
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable SMARTY_ECOMMERCE_DIR
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable KILL_CLIENT
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable INTERVAL_POLL_VALUES
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable POLL_CLIENTS
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable BEAT_INTERVAL
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable ITERATIONS
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable RAMPUP_SECONDS
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable SIMULTANEOUS_SESSIONS
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable HIGH_SPEED_DATA_RATE
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable WARMUP_SECONDS
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable THREAD_RAMPUP_SECONDS
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable THREAD_RAMPDOWN_SECONDS
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable RAMPDOWN_SECONDS
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable RUN_SECONDS
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable MAX_OVERTHINK_TIME
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable CLIENTS
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable BESIM_SERVER
2008-03-13 00:46:14:734 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable WEB_SERVER
2008-03-13 00:46:14:766 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable PADDING_DIR
2008-03-13 00:46:14:766 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable LG_BUF_SIZE
2008-03-13 00:46:14:766 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable THINK_TIME
2008-03-13 00:46:14:766 Configuration: You changed the value of (or provided multiple values for) the configuration variable THINK_MAX
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Thu Mar 13 00:46:14 GMT 2008
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR WARMUP_SECONDS value is: 30; should be 300
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR BEAT_INTERVAL value is: 60; should be 10
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR RAMPDOWN_SECONDS value is: 30; should be 300
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR MAX_OVERTHINK_TIME value is: 121444; should be 20000
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR THREAD_RAMPDOWN_SECONDS value is: 30; should be 180
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR THINK_MAX value is: 6; should be 150
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR RUN_SECONDS value is: 10800; should be 1800
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR THREAD_RAMPUP_SECONDS value is: 100; should be 180
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR ITERATIONS value is: 1; should be 3
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR HIGH_SPEED_DATA_RATE value is: 200000; should be 100000
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR THINK_TIME value is: 2; should be 10
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR RAMPUP_SECONDS value is: 60; should be 300
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Validator: ERROR Invalid configuration.
2008-03-13 00:46:14:797 Warning! This is a non-compliant benchmark run.

All of these settings are default in my vmmark.config file and the defaults seem to be the erroneous values.

I also see a warning about unspecified database type, etc. in the database wrf file.

If I cleanse the errors and warnings from the wrf files, I still an not able to generate a score.

Should the webserver values be changed in order to be compliant?

Does the verbosity of DEBUG=1 make it so the tilescore2html can't parse the wrf file?

Any suggestions or sanity to offer? I'm going to turn off debug and run again.

http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/polysulfide

Help! Can't generate tilescore.

Spanky123 — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:25:34 GMT

Folks,

I'm unable to generate a single tile score. The fileserver ran forever, had to kill it and run RESCUE, then I copied the fileserver0.wrf file over, ran the tilescore perl script. No tilescore was generated. I tried the manual perl script and got the results below. Anyone know what might be wrong? Contents of vclient0 results attatched.

C:\vmmark\results\Results_20080128150451>c:\\cygwin\\bin
perl -f c:\\vmmark\til
escore.pl -t 1
Computing_results_for_test_with_tile_count: 1
Run_start 1201532580 {10:03 2008:01:28}
Start_time 0 {19:00}
End_time 1201544100 {13:15}
Run_end 1201544100 {13:15}
Duration_in_minutes 20025735
Steady_state_start 1800 {19:30}
Steady_state_end 9000 {21:30}
Phase_0_begin 1800 {19:30}
Phase_1_begin 4200 {20:10}
Phase_2_begin 6600 {20:50}
Error: could not resolve start-time. Results data missing from one or more *.wrf
files or time on clients not synchronized

Contents of the vmmark/results directory attatched.

Thanks!

VM system clock drift on Webserver VM's

kcoin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:20:01 GMT

Hello,

Has anyone noticed the webserver VM's system clock drifting significantly over the period of a test run? We currently are running VMmark 1.0.

Thanks,

Kate

Installation doc?

ygao — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:52:19 GMT

Any there any installation doc for VMmark? I can't find it for some reason...Thanks

Javaserver running forever

kimono — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:10:43 GMT

Suddenly my tests are never ending because the javaserver0 job never stops! I have a job that is still running , and javaserver0 has been running for 19 hours, it's the only workload VM left running. Has any body else seen this? I've tried restarting everything, clients, vms, but keeps happening.

weird !

VMmark score

Mizzou_RobMan — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:43:21 GMT

When reviewing the results of HP and Dell's posted VMmark results, how do I compare the two? If a HP BL 680 G5 scores 10.17 and a HP DL 580 G5 scores 11.54. What is this telling me, besides that it appears to be better? Does this mean a DL 580 will run 11 VMs at load versus the BL 680 running 10 VMs at load?

VMmark V1.0.0 Released

psmith2006 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:47:53 GMT

VMmark V1.0.0 was released July 23 2007

For details and downloads see:

http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/

For info on how VMmark is being used see:

http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/

New Beta date???

rolandt — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:19:51 GMT

In several of the threads a new beta release is mentioned. Is there a estimated or targeted release date?

what is VMmark

pasoboble — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:27:08 GMT

Could someone explain me what is VMmark?

Thanks

Paso

VMmark 1.0 HTML results - Time Synch problem

rolandt — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:38:44 GMT

I cannot obtain results using VMmark v1.0 with 1 tile. When I run the results compiliation script "tilescore2html.sh" after completing a run I get the following "Error: could not resolve start-time. Time on clients not synchronized".

I am using 1 tile so 1 client. How can there be a "clients not synchronized" problem with a single client? What is causing the problem and how do I resolve it?

A second question - what requirements trigger the generation of the "Score_1_Tile_Test.out" results file at the end of the run? The results file is NOT produced when I use RUNTIME=3600 (1hr) instead of the default RUNTIME=10800 (3hr).

thanks.

vmark/fileserver workload

zghauri — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:00:58 GMT

I can't seem to run the fileserver workload with any other workload without it failing on startup for a single tile. I'm running one tile and all other workloads work fine for any duration of execution. However, when you add fileserver into the mix, it fails on startup leaving the tbench_srv processes running on the client. Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Windows R2 CLIENT "Sysprep" breaking NTFS permissions on VCLIENT directory

kimono — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:37:56 GMT

Has anybody faced strange NTFS problems after sysprepping (if you sysprep) the prime client and creating the new clients from that image? For some reason, I had to change the NTFS owner of the \vclientX directory and create some new ACLs on that folder ... I first noticed the problem after configuring LOADSIM on CLIENT1 and finding out I could not write the new vmmark.sim file to \VCLIENTX\MAILSERVER directory, and I could not change the NTFS permissions at all. (all ADD ACL buttons were greyed out.)

My process was - create and test fully the prime client on 1 tile, shutdown and ghost the prime client (not sysprepped at this point), image the prime client to a new physical host, power new CLIENT up, run sysprep, configure new hostname, networking, join domain etc.

Or doesn't anybody bother with sysprepping the CLIENTS. ( I am considering skipping this from now on, as the CLIENTS all will end up in their own domains, and SID duplication is not an issue)

What are actual cygwin requirements???

rolandt — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:44:17 GMT

What components of cygwin are really needed for VMmark?

I know it makes it simple to say install everything. But that a) takes a long time to download, b) takes up a lot of disk space (up to 2.5GB) on every client server, and c) includes a lot of packages that are obviously not going to be used (like compilers, databases, and xwindows).

VMmark public beta is now available!

jenniferanderson — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:30:47 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that the VMmark public beta is now available for download at: http://www.vmware.com/beta/vmmark/.

Build process suggestions

rolandt — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:57:09 GMT

First. I am very very happy that this benchmark idea has finally come to fruition.

As a newcomer to the process I wanted to make a few comments about the build/installation process. As was noted in the first posting to this forum the build process is rather lengthy and complicated. I fully recognize that complexity is a given, considering the various types of systems and workloads being put together. However, it seems to me that there are some places that we can reduce the effort a bit.

In particular the steps of building the 7 systems (yes 7, 3 windows VMs + 3 linux VMs + 1 windows Client) per tile can be resequenced to allow more leveraging of your effort. Obviously using templates is already recommended in the documentation and is definitely highly desirable.

For both sets of VMs (Windows and Linux) if you use a bit of thought and planning you can do just one OS install instead of 3. Create your VM, install the OS, install all the common software and do all of the common tweaking. Then clone that VM into the additional two VMs. Then you would do the specific workload installation steps in each VM before creating VM templates.

This alone cuts out 1-2 days of effort and elapsed time if for nothing but just waiting for W2K3 or RHEL to finish the install process.

vmmark/javaserver workload

VMwareUserR — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:32:49 GMT

The vmmark benchmarking guide page 80 mentioned that the installation directory is 'c:\apps\SPECjbb2005'. The following paragraph said to copy those three jars from \vserver\javaserver to 'c:\apps\SPECjbb2005-1.07'. Anyway, I used and kept one name - c:\apps\SPECjbb2005 and also modified VMMARK.CONFIG.5min config file using the same path. But it seems like somewhere in the setup is assuming the path should be c:\apps\SPECjbb2005-1.04 and the client path has to be in c drive. I did not install the \vclient0 into c drive, but I modified the path in the VMMARK.CONFIG.5min file. The setup did not seem to pick up the correct path from VMMARK.CONFIG.5min. is this a known bug?

vmmark/mailserver workload

VMwareUserR — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:44:00 GMT

I had trouble in downloading Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise edition "trial' version from the following URL
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads/exchange/2003/trials/2003.mspx

When I tried to install the exchange server 200 3 from MSDN CD, I got the compatibility issues warning. Your benchmark guide did suggest to use the trial version. But it is not available to me. What is your suggestion?

Thanks.

vmmark/dbserver workload

VMwareUserR — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:13:56 GMT

I followed the steps in the benchmarking guide to create the database. ( took me half day) All the network connections seemed to be working. The "STAF.cfg" on both client and dbserver machines have been modified to set the trust level to "5" for the client machine and VM machine. When I ran the test, I got the following similar error for all three database scripts - sqlplus_shutdown.sh, sqlplus_startup.sh and backup.sh during the wkld setup phase,

Stafcmd Process: sqlplus_shutdown.sh failed to start/complete. Returned: RC=25, STAFResult=Trust level 5 required for the PROCESS service's START request. Requester has trust level 3 on machine dbserver0.unisys.com

Then, I added the trust level 5 to user "oracle" in STAF.cfg file, but it did not help. Any suggestion?

Thanks.

vmmark configuration setup

VMwareUserR — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:10:15 GMT

I would like to ask you if it is possible that the benchmark kit can provide the patches for the setup configuration files, I spent quite a bit of time in editting the configuration files for the webserver workload yesterday and tried not to have the typos. Finally I still made one simple typo mistake that stopped the test. So, is it too much to ask you,

for the changes to the existing configuration files, can you provide the patch files,

for the new configurations, can you provide pre-typed texts or scripts

so that the user can avoid the typing as much as possible?

or just provide the pre-built image of each workload?

Configurations - /cpu/ram/disk

VMwareUserR — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:53:49 GMT

The VMmark benchmarking guide has specified the RAM and Disk size requirements for running 2 virtual cpu for mail, java,database servers and 1 cpu for standby, web and file servers. For future planning, what would be the requirements of RAN and Disk size if I double the number of virtual cpus for all the servers?

Thanks.

running a subset of the workloads

VMwareUserR — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:03:56 GMT

I just want to run those two standalone VMs(java and standby) that dont need the client software, but it seems like I still need to have the mail server up running to have the prime client join the mail server domain in order to run. My questions are

1. Do Java and standby VM have to reside on a Microsoft Windows member server joining the domain controller of the mail server? Can they be only a workgroup server?
2. Does the prime client have to be a member server of the mail server?
3. The VMMark benchmark guide kept mentioning '(refer to ''Hosts Files" on page xx) in many places, (e.g page 59 bottom line) what page number that page xx is refering to?

Thanks.

problem with build - apc for webserver

rolandt — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:22:43 GMT

I have run into a problem during my build of the web-server VM. Note, I am using the 20061219 version of VMmark & guide.

I get errors during the "make" in step 7 of APC install process. I have version APC-3.0.12.

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/usr/local/APC-3.0.12/apc_compile.c: In function 'my_prepare_op_array_for_execution':
/usr/local/APC-3.0.12/apc_compile.c:1904: error: union has no member named 'jmp_addr'
/usr/local/APC-3.0.12/apc_compile.c:1905: error: union has no member named 'jmp_addr'
/usr/local/APC-3.0.12/apc_compile.c:1913: error: union has no member named 'jmp_addr'
/usr/local/APC-3.0.12/apc_compile.c:1914: error: union has no member named 'jmp_addr'
-----
I have reinstalled php (php-4.4.3) and APC-3.0.12 twice and get the same errors.

What does this mean? What might I have done wrong? And, of course how do I fix it?

Standardization?

DougBaer — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:16:53 GMT

It would be nice to have VM appliances available for many of the workloads described in the test. This would reduce the possible variation in the results due to configuration differences within the VMs (patch levels, versions, etc). I realize this might not be possible with the Windows-based VMs, but how about the RHEL VMs? It is probably too much to ask that the vendors in question provide temporary benchmark licenses for such pre-configured appliances in order to provide standardized building blocks for the metrics.

The investment in time to create these VMs is pretty significant and seems to require a bit of cross-platform expertise. Not that this is a bad thing, but it may limit the number of folks able to run the tests.

That being said, I can tell that a lot of time and energy has gone into creating this benchmark -- and document.

My two cents -- thrown in to seed the pot.

Doug