2.2 Planning for Performance

The performance tests for Secure API Manager 2.x were run against the appliance deployment with the following configuration.

Table 2-1 Performance Testing Configuration for the Appliance

Component

Description

Notes

Virtual Environment

 

Operating System

VMware using vSphere 6.7

 

Hardware

Dell VxRail E560F servers

 

Processors

Two Intel Xeon Gold 6254 CPUs

Memory

768 GB of RAM

Per-server

Storage

vSAN with SSD drives

 

Network

25 GB per second throughput

 

Secure API Manager Appliance

 

 

Appliance

One appliance deployed

 

Processors

4 CPUs

 

Memory

12 GB

 

Payload Size

236 bytes per request

 

Analytics Server

See Configure Analytics in the NetIQ Secure API Manager 2.2 Administration Guide

 

Secure API Manager allows 1,500 requests per second to each appliance when we deployed the appliance in the performance testing environment listed in Table 2-1. If you increase the processors to eight processors per appliance we allow 2,900 requests per second. If you deploy an additional appliance, the requests scale linearly.

You add the additional processors through the VMware administration tools. For more information, see Change the Number of Virtual CPUs in the Host Client.