BizTalk Performance Lab Delivery Guide – TOC v 0.02 – Please Comment
As promised, here is the deeper look at the Table of Contents for the BizTalk Performance Lab Delivery Guide.
As Pages are added to this site, I will update the links in this post.
Since the whole purpose of this site is to give the community a dirty read during the evolution process of the guide, please remember that everything is subject to change based upon community feedback.
Chapter 1, Introduction,
Chapter 2, A Lab Process, outlines a process and walks you through the process we use to conduct BizTalk Performance Labs on the BizTalk Ranger Team.
Chapter 3, Performance Factors, enumerates the Factors affect performance because if you don't know what to look out for it's hard to know where to start. This chapter starts by reiterating that the factors in Wayne Clark's 2004 paper are all still valid. Factors for 2006 are then discussed.
Chapter 4, Performance Metrics, is short but important as it provides reference material for learning about Performance Metrics used during a BizTalk Server Performance Lab. It's important to note that Performance Metrics involves many other technologies than BizTalk, like SQL Server, IIS, COM+, ASP.NET, etc.
Chapter 5, Performance Bottlenecks, enumerates the types of performance bottlenecks that can be encountered and offers guidance for identifying, isolating, measuring and tuning in each specific situation.
Chapter 6, Useful Tools, will probably be the most entertaining chapter since it will give how-to information on usage of various powerful tools and techniques.
Chapter 7, Engagement Documents, will provide those following the guide with a starting point from which to document the activity and planning for a performance lab engagement.
What Is a BizTalk Performance Lab? 6
Who is the Audience? 6
Why was this Written? 6
A Process for Conducting Performance Labs 7
Why Consider Scope? 10
A Document Engagement Summary 10
Hardware Diagram 14
High Level Architecture Diagram 16
The Plan Phase 16
Why Plan 17
Third-Party Software and Technology 17
Detailed Lab Hardware Stack 17
Detailed Lab Software Stack 18
Physical Space and other Logistics 18
The Prepare Phase 18
A Detailed Solution Design 19
The Application to be Tested 20
The Build Lab Phase 21
Build Lab Infrastructure 21
Configuring Third-Party Software 22
Configure Performance Monitoring 23
Run Automated Deploy 23
Run Automated Functional Testing 23
Run Automated Load Tests 23
Document Solution Performance Baseline 24
The Execute Phase 24
Performance Factors in 2004 24
Performance Factors in BizTalk 2006 26
BAM 26
Host Design 26
Orchestrations 26
Receive Ports 26
Send Ports 26
The Tracking Host 26
The Tracking Service 26
Delivery Notification 26
Correlation 26
Message Size 26
Flat File Processing 27
Business Rules Engine 27
BizTalk Performance Metrics 27
SQL Server Performance Metrics 27
Windows Server 2003 Performance Metrics 28
IIS 6.0 Performance Metrics 28
ASP.Net Performance Metrics 28
High-Level BizTalk System Bottlenecks 28
Items to Check First 29
Processing Host Queues 29
Specific Types of Performance Bottlenecks 29
Disk I/O Bottlenecks
CPU Bottlenecks
Memory Bottlenecks
Network I/O Bottlenecks
Database Contention Bottlenecks
MaxConnections Causing Bottlenecks
Thread Starvation Bottlenecks
Large Message Size Bottlenecks
XML Bottlenecks
Pipeline Bottlenecks
Tracking Bottlenecks
ASP.Net Bottlenecks
Errors and Exceptions Causing Bottlenecks
HTTP Bottlenecks
SOAP and Web Services Bottlenecks
MQ Series Bottlenecks
Throttling Bottlenecks
MaxReceiveInterval as Related to Latency and Bottlenecks 66
Useful Tools and How to Use Them 67
PerfMon 67
Tracelog.exe 67
Logman.exe 67
Log Parser 67
PALS 67
Performance Log Viewer 1.6 (toolbox) 67
SQLIO 67
Where to Obtain SQLIO 67
How to "Quickly" Use SQLIO 67
SQLIO Resources 67
SQLIOSIM 68
When To Use SQLIO vs. SQLIOSIM 68
Log Parser 2.2 68
RDCMan (toolbox) 69
Where to Obtain RDCMan 70
How to "Quickly" Use RDCMan 70
RDCMan resources 70
The F1 Profiler 70
PerfConsole 70
PowerShell Scripts Which Make use of These Tools 70
Engagement Documentation Examples
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