IBM System i5 520 With POWER5 Performance in a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mixed Workload Environment

Overview

IBM recently announced a new family of high-speed IBM System i servers with POWER5 technology. Customers with older hardware are asking if they can expect comparable performance on these new systems with similar CPW ratings. The answer is yes. The IBM Oracle International Competency Center (IOICC) and the IBM Rochester development team conducted a series of mixed-workload performance tests on both an older four-way IBM System i 820 and a new IBM System i5 520 uni-processor system. The tests ran both JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP 8.0 Web users and multiple streams of batch workloads singly and concurrently.