Performance benchmarks and tuning for a PATROL Agent

This topics contains the following information about the performance and network bandwidth utilization of the BMC PATROL Agent.

Performance testing configuration

The data is in this topic is based on the following configuration:

Assumptions used in performance testing

The data is in this topic is based on the following assumption:

• The PATROL Agent and PATROL for VMware vSphere are installed on Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 64-bit.
• The PATROL Agent and PATROL for VMware vSphere are installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 x86_64.

• The PATROL Agent and PATROL for VMware vSphere monitor a large virtual center that comprises 2500 virtual machines.

• The PATROL Agent is connected to the Integration Service and only data is sent to Infrastructure Management server using the Integration Service.

• The PATROL Agent is connected to the Integration Service. Both event and data are sent to Infrastructure Management server using the Integration Service.

• The network bandwidth between the PATROL Agent and the Integration Service is monitored using tools such as NetLimiter and PerfMon when the PATROL Agent is sending only data to the Integration Service.

• All the readings are taken in a network bandwidth capacity of 1 Gbps.

PATROL Agent tuning parameters

The following parameters have been documented based on testing the default configuration variables for the data flow between the PATROL Agent and the Integration Service:

The data value transfer rate between the PATROL Agent and the Integration Service is at 100 parameter values per second.

PATROL Agent network bandwidth utilization

The following table contains information about the network bandwidth utilized between the PATROL Agent and the Integration Service. The reading in the table is on the computer in which the PATROL Agent is installed on port 3183.

The following table contains information about the network bandwidth utilized between the Integration Service and the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server. The reading in the table is on the computer in which the  Integration Service is installed on port 12124.

From the tables above, the average data bandwidth measurement between the PATROL Agent and the Integration Service is at 2.73 KB per second. This data contains the following load:

• • Total number of virtual machines = 2500
  • Total number of VMware vSphere Server instances = 45000
  • Total number of parameters = 175000
  • The average data bandwidth measurement between the Integration Service and the Agent Controller is at 19.06 KB per second.