Monday April 04, 2005 |
Monday April 04, 2005 Consolidating SybaseWhen designing system platforms for Sybase based applications, three patterns are available.
Sybase's development of multiple workspaces has again extended the parallelisation of the server and reduces the number of serial bottlenecks. This is a technique that might permit multiple applications to be hosted within a single ASE server instance i.e. adopt pattern two above. ASE has for many years had multiple #145;databases’ within it but a database is a unit of recovery, not of applications logic and while Sybase has dramatically reduced the number of scarce resources within the ASE instance, it has no concept of application and its resource management algorithms have no concept of priority nor of service quality. These weaknesses can be overcome by the Solaris resource manager which permits an application via a project to have its system resources guaranteed against anti-social behaviour be other applications. Having multiple Sybase instances within a Solaris instance would allow a more sophisticated resource management policy to be declared. Further reasons for ‘consolidating’ is that the regression tests for application changes are simpler. A change in one application will not require tests in the databases and procedures that are required by others and start/stop requests do not impact other applications. Any conflict around the values of the server run time parameters can be resolved using the consolidation model, to the extent that even different versions & EBFs of Sybase can be applied to different applications (using the file system name space to enforce and differentiate between versions). This last factor is very important if the platform designers do not own the Sybase version definition policy, such as when ISV code is being used. Platform designers have a choice and they should carefully consider which of the three patterns they wish to implement as they develop their infrastructure plans. tags: Technology "Platfrom Architecture" Sybase Solaris Consolidation 
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