IPS Performance Designer by HyPerformix

With IPS Performance Designer, you can:

• Establish a realistic end-to-end performance goal for an application and set performance budgets for each tier to achieve that goal.
• Validate that your application will meet performance objectives – before you begin development.
• Compare different architecture and infrastructure alternatives to find the best balance between performance, cost and risk.

OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT DURING REQUIREMENTS,ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN.

Description

IPS Performance Designer by HyPerformix provides the vision you need to commit to and deliver the right amount of service at the right costs - every time. By modeling your application's architecture, infrastructure, workload and resource requirements during the requirements, architecture and design stages, IPS Performance Designer provides answers to your questions on response time, integration, infrastructure and risk - all before any coding or programming begins.

With IPS Performance Designer, you can:

• Predict the performance and resource utilization for a new application based on architecture, infrastructure and workload characteristics. Define the variables that will affect performance and validate that performance objectives can be achieved with the resources available. Make intelligent tradeoffs when there are discrepancies between actual and goal.
• Scope application infrastructure and architecture design correctly. Ensure the availability of adequate infrastructure to support the service levels business units demand. Optimize existing resources and provide an accurate, quantitative justification for procurement of new systems.
• Validate requirements and modify architecture and infrastructure to meet budgets and service levels. Create multiple scenarios and compare alternatives to ensure service level agreements are met while minimizing costs.
• Provide business units with concrete data and assist in the decision-making process to achieve the best balance between performance, costs and risks. Understand the relationship between performance requirements and infrastructure costs, and accurately determine the viability of performance objectives. Propose alternatives that may be more economical - and yet equally effective - to the business.
• Determine potential performance problems before and during application design. Identify application performance and capacity characteristics of the application and its supporting infrastructure, detect potential performance issues and correct them during the design phase.
• Predict the impact of change before change occurs. Model and evaluate changes and additions to the application, ensuring the design will scale with workload changes. Make changes in application development when they're easier and more economical.

Features

• Provides answers before applications are written or infrastructures are designed.
• Predicts end-to-end response time across complex, multi-tier infrastructures.
• Identifies resource consumption of each server tier and network segment.
• Employs performance budgeting methods to assess design tradeoffs for each tier in a multi-tier infrastructure.
• Models the effect of multiple applications.
• Provides multiple scenario analysis capabilities.
• Leverages the HyPerformix library of over 1000 pre-built models of servers and mainframes.
• Uses intelligent assumptive data to create models of applications.
• Graphically illustrates key metrics such as:
  • Response time breakdown by component.
  • Variation of response-time actuals from goal, shown by tier.
  • Response time vs. transaction rate for each server tier.
• Generates reports that can be exported for inclusion in presentations.
• Provides an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. (A complementary two-hour online training class is available.)
• Guides the design process by providing quantitative performance feedback for architects and designers.

Benefits

Performance Designer provides the following benefits:

• Successful Application Deployments - by optimizing performance considerations early in the life cycle, a solid foundation is created for application performance.
• Recognizable Return on Investment - by eliminating redundant infrastructure components.
• Reduced Risk and Cost - by identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks during design instead of production.

Requirements

Minimum System Requirements

• PC with Intel Pentium-compatible processor running at 1 gigahertz (GHz) or higher
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
• 175 MB of disk space
• SVGA graphics with a minimum of 256 colors at a resolution of 800 x 600
• Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or Windows XP with Service Pack 2