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Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Deploying Coherence-Based Applications

• 1.1 Deploying Coherence with a Standalone Application
• 1.2 Deploying Coherence to an Application Server
  • 1.2.1 Deploying Coherence as an Application Server Library
  • 1.2.2 Deploying Coherence in a Java EE Module
    • 1.2.2.1 Deploying Coherence Within an EAR
    • 1.2.2.2 Deploying Coherence Within a WAR
• 1.3 Running Multiple Applications in a Single Cluster
  • 1.3.1 Specifying a Scope Name
  • 1.3.2 Scoping Applications in a JavaEE Environment
    • 1.3.2.1 Isolating Applications in a JavaEE Environment
    • 1.3.2.2 Sharing Application Data in a JavaEE Environment
  • 1.3.3 Scoping Applications in a Standalone Environment
  • 1.3.4 Providing a Custom Scope Resolver

2 Platform-Specific Deployment Considerations

• 2.1 Deploying to AIX
  • 2.1.1 Multicast and IPv6
  • 2.1.2 Unique Multicast Addresses and Ports
• 2.2 Deploying to Cisco Switches
  • 2.2.1 Buffer Space and Packet Pauses
  • 2.2.2 Multicast Connectivity on Large Networks
  • 2.2.3 Multicast Outages
• 2.3 Deploying to Foundry Switches
  • 2.3.1 Multicast Connectivity
• 2.4 Deploying to IBM BladeCenters
  • 2.4.1 MAC Address Uniformity and Load Balancing
• 2.5 Deploying to IBM JVMs
  • 2.5.1 OutOfMemoryError
  • 2.5.2 Heap Sizing
• 2.6 Deploying to Linux
  • 2.6.1 Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL)
  • 2.6.2 TSC High Resolution Timesource
• 2.7 Deploying to Oracle JRockit JVMs
  • 2.7.1 JRockit and the Native Posix Thread Library (NPTL)
  • 2.7.2 OutOfMemoryError
• 2.8 Deploying to Oracle JVMs
  • 2.8.1 Heap Sizes
  • 2.8.2 AtomicLong
  • 2.8.3 OutOfMemoryError
• 2.9 Deploying to OS X
  • 2.9.1 Multicast and IPv6
  • 2.9.2 Unique Multicast Addresses and Ports
  • 2.9.3 Socket Buffer Sizing
• 2.10 Deploying to Solaris
  • 2.10.1 Solaris 10 (x86 and SPARC)
  • 2.10.2 Solaris 10 Networking
• 2.11 Deploying to Virtual Machines
  • 2.11.1 Supported Deployment
  • 2.11.2 Multicast Connectivity
  • 2.11.3 Performance
  • 2.11.4 Fault Tolerance
• 2.12 Deploying to Windows
  • 2.12.1 Performance Tuning
  • 2.12.2 Personal Firewalls
  • 2.12.3 Disconnected Network Interface
• 2.13 Deploying to z/OS
  • 2.13.1 EBCDIC
  • 2.13.2 Multicast

3 Evaluating Performance and Scalability

• 3.1 Measuring Latency and Throughput
• 3.2 Demonstrating Scalability
• 3.3 Tuning Your Environment
• 3.4 Evaluating the Measurements of a Large Sample Cluster
• 3.5 Scalability: A Test Case
  • 3.5.1 Overview of the Scalability Test Case
  • 3.5.2 Step 1: Create Test Data for Aggregation
  • 3.5.3 Step 2: Configure a Partitioned Cache
  • 3.5.4 Step 3: Add an Index
  • 3.5.5 Step 4: Perform a Parallel Aggregation
  • 3.5.6 Step 5: Run the Aggregation Test Case
  • 3.5.7 Step 6: Analyzing the Results

4 Performing a Network Performance Test

• 4.1 Running the Datagram Test Utility
• 4.2 How to Test Network Performance
  • 4.2.1 Performing a Bidirectional Test
  • 4.2.2 Performing a Distributed Test
• 4.3 Understanding Report Statistics

5 Performing a Multicast Connectivity Test

• 5.1 Running the Multicast Test Utility
• 5.2 How to Test Multicast
• 5.3 Troubleshooting Multicast Communications

6 Performance Tuning

• 6.1 Operating System Tuning
  • 6.1.1 Socket Buffer Sizes
  • 6.1.2 High Resolution timesource (Linux)
  • 6.1.3 Datagram size (Microsoft Windows)
  • 6.1.4 Thread Scheduling (Microsoft Windows)
  • 6.1.5 Swapping
  • 6.1.6 Load Balancing Network Interrupts (Linux)
• 6.2 Network Tuning
  • 6.2.1 Network Interface Settings
  • 6.2.2 Bus Considerations
  • 6.2.3 Network Infrastructure Settings
  • 6.2.4 Switch and Subnet Considerations
  • 6.2.5 Ethernet Flow-Control
  • 6.2.6 Path MTU
• 6.3 JVM Tuning
  • 6.3.1 Basic Sizing Recommendation
  • 6.3.2 Heap Size Considerations
    • 6.3.2.1 General Guidelines
    • 6.3.2.2 Moving the Cache Out of the Application Heap
  • 6.3.3 Garbage Collection Monitoring
• 6.4 Coherence Communication Tuning
  • 6.4.1 Validation
• 6.5 Data Access Patterns
  • 6.5.1 Data Access Distribution (hot spots)
  • 6.5.2 Cluster-node Affinity
  • 6.5.3 Read/Write Ratio and Data Sizes
  • 6.5.4 Interleaving Cache Reads and Writes

7 Production Checklist

• 7.1 Network Recommendations
• 7.2 Cache Size Calculation Recommendations
• 7.3 Hardware Recommendations
• 7.4 Operating System Recommendations
• 7.5 JVM Recommendations
• 7.6 Security Recommendations
• 7.7 Application Instrumentation Recommendations
• 7.8 Coherence Modes and Editions
• 7.9 Coherence Operational Configuration Recommendations
• 7.10 Coherence Cache Configuration Recommendations
• 7.11 Large Cluster Configuration Recommendations
• 7.12 Death Detection Recommendations

A Log Message Glossary

• A.1 TCMP Log Messages
• A.2 Configuration Log Messages
• A.3 Partitioned Cache Service Log Messages