EMC DOCUMENTUM CONTENT MANAGEMENT
BENCHMARK
EMC DOCUMENTUM CENTERSTAGE
V1.2 SP1 WITH 500 USERS ON
VMWARE
SERVERS
RUNNING
RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.5
AND ORACLE DATABASE 11G
As a global leader in content management applications, EMC is committed to delivering high-performance solutions that deliver rich
functionality with robust performance at volumes that are representative of enterprise customer environments.
EMC benchmarks demonstrate our software’s performance characteristics for a range of processing volumes in a specific configuration.
Customers and prospects can use this information to determine the software, hardware, and network configurations necessary to support
their processing volumes.
The primary objective of our benchmarking effort is to provide as many data points as possible to support this important decision.
between teams, whether they are working on internal projects or
across an extended enterprise with external suppliers, partners,
and contractors.
SUMMARY OF RESULTS
EMC Documentum CenterStage v1.2SP1
Benchmark
(English)
Référence
d'exécution
(Français)
BenchmarkTest
(Deutsch)
Patrón
de
rendimiento
(Español)
Users
500
Transactions per hour
78,317
Average response time (seconds)
1.38
Application server hits (each second)
156
EMC Documentum CenterStage v1.2SP1
Actifs
500
Transactions par heure
78,317
Temps de réponse moyen (secondes)
1.38
Coups de serveur d'application (par seconde)
156
EMC Documentum CenterStage v1.2SP1
Benutzer
500
Verhandlungen pro stunde
78,317
Durchschnittliche antwortzeit (sekunden)
1.38
Anwendung bedienererfolge (pro Sekunde)
156
To avoid silos of unmanaged knowledge assets propagating at the
department level and to mitigate new elements of risk,
organizations need to provide a dynamic and full-featured
compliant and collaborative content management web experience
to their employees. They need EMC Documentum CenterStage.
EMC Documentum CenterStage v1.2SP1
Activos
500
Transacciones por hora
78,317
Tiempo de reacción medio (segundos)
1.38
Golpes del servidor del uso (por segundo)
156
基准
(中文)
Extended enterprise collaboration offers several benefits to a
company: faster time to market with goods and services; reduced
product development costs; rapid access to a broader pool of
knowledge or expertise; and closer interaction with customers
resulting in higher satisfaction. But with these benefits comes
exposure to litigation risk and financial penalties. Organizations
must ensure that all information created through these interactions
is managed in a secure environment with a strong emphasis on
ownership to ensure security, control, and compliance.
The goal of this benchmark was to simulate 100, 250, and 500
concurrent users of EMC Documentum’s CenterStage v1.2
SP1 engaging in a variety of content management and
collaboration related transactions while maintaining
acceptable response times.
EMC Documentum CenterStage v1.2SP1
用户
500
交易每小时
78,317
平均响应时间 - 秒
1.38
应用服务器安打 - 每秒
156
BENCHMARK PROFILE
In July 2011, EMC® Documentum® conducted a benchmark to
demonstrate the scalability and performance of CenterStage®
enterprise collaboration software on a ESX 4 VMware
environment. This benchmark was conducted at Documentum’s
lab located in Pleasanton, California.
In order to thrive, organizations need a business-to-business
collaborative environment that fosters more efficient interaction
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Highlighting throughput and sustainability, the benchmark
environment was able to process around 78,317 Documentum
CenterStage transactions during a one hour steady state period.
The environment consists of several images deployed on VMware
ESX 4 all hosted on one Cisco C460 Server with 32 Intel® Xeon®
x7560 cores running at 2.27GHz. HP LoadRunner®, also hosted
on VMware, was used to simulate various user workloads.
Multiple tests were conducted and used to collect the metrics
presented in this summary. Transaction processing times and
system utilization were measured for all tests.
All tests were conducted in a controlled environment with no
other applications running. The test scenario designed was
sustained for about 1 hour. Tuning changes (if any) were
approved by EMC Documentum development and will be
generally available in a future update or release.
Log Off: The user logs off from the My Spaces view of
CenterStage.
Table 1 below provides average response times in seconds for
100, 250 and 500 concurrent users performing various actions
within each of the business processes exercised in the benchmark.
BUSINESS PROCESSES
EMC Documentum defines a business process as a series of user
operations against structured and unstructured data. In these
processes the user is guided through a number of transactions that
incrementally bring the business process to completion. Nine
different types of Documentum CenterStage “based” business
processes were exercised in this benchmark:
The response times do not include browser render time and are
calculated based on the time a transaction is initiated by the user
to the time all the data is received at the client in response:
Response Times - CenterStage 1.2 SP1
Business Process Transaction
100
Log on to My Spaces
View Folder in Space
Log on to My Spaces: The user logs on to the My Community
home page within CenterStage. Then, the user navigates to My
Spaces and views all the Spaces.
View Folder in Space: From the My Spaces home page, the user
randomly selects a space and is presented the space’s home page.
The user then navigates to browse content in a space and then
randomly selects a folder to view its contents. After viewing the
folder, the user navigates to the space home and closes the space.
View Data Table in Space
View File Page in Space
View Data Table in Space: From the My Spaces view, the user
randomly selects a space and is presented the space’s home page.
The user then navigates to browse content in a space and then
randomly selects a data table in the space directory tree. After
viewing the data table, the user navigates to the space home and
closes the space.
View Wiki Page in Space
View File Page in Space: From the My Spaces view, the user
randomly selects a space and is presented the space’s home page.
The user then navigates to browse content in a space and then
randomly selects a folder to view its contents. Then the user
randomly picks a file and selects view page to see its details.
After viewing the file page, the user navigates to the space home
and closes the space.
View Discussion in Space
View Tag in Space
View Wiki Page in Space: From the My Spaces view, the user
randomly selects a space and navigates to the space home page.
The user then navigates to browse content in a space and then
randomly selects a wiki to view its contents. Click “All Pages in
this Wiki” link. Then the user randomly picks a page in the wiki
to view its contents. After viewing the wiki page, the user
navigates to the space home and closes the space.
Search in Space
Log Out
View Discussion in Space: From the My Spaces view, the user
randomly selects a space and navigates to the space home page.
The user then navigates to browse content in a space and
randomly selects a discussion to view. Then the user randomly
picks a topic to view its contents. After viewing the discussion
topic the user navigates to the space home and closes the space.
Logon
Navigate to Space
Browse Content in Space
View Folder in Space
Navigate to Space Home
Close Space
Navigate to Space
Browse Content in Space
View Datatable in Space
Navigate to Space Home
Close Space
Navigate to Space
Browse Content in Space
View Folder in Space
View File Page in Space
Navigate to Space Home
Close Space
Navigate to Space
Browse Content in Space
View Wiki in Space
Click All Pages in Wiki
View Wiki Page in Space
Navigate to Space Home
Close Space
Navigate to Space
Browse Content in Space
View Discussion in Space
View Discussion Topic in Space
Navigate to Space Home
Close Space
Navigate to Space
View Tag in Space
Click Tag in Space
Navigate to Space Home
Close Space
Navigate to Space
Click Search in Space
Search in Space - 150 Results
Search in Space - Facets
Navigate to Space Home
Close Space
Logout
Average Response Time
Transactions per hour per user
Total Transactions per hour
0.086
0.404
0.479
0.384
0.259
0
0.404
0.479
1.328
0.259
0
0.404
0.479
0.384
0.233
0.259
0
0.404
0.479
0.365
0.362
0.679
0.259
0
0.404
0.479
0.776
0.697
0.259
0
0.404
0.149
0.716
0.259
0
0.404
0.683
0.566
0.064
0.259
0
0.074
0.35
164
16,339
Table 1. Average Response Times in Seconds
View Tag in Space: From the My Spaces home page, the user
randomly selects a space and navigates to the space home page.
The user then navigates to find tagged content in a space and
randomly selects a tag to view its results. After viewing the tag
results, the user navigates to the space home and closes the space
to view My Spaces.
Search in space: From the My Spaces home page, the user
randomly selects a space and navigates to the space home page.
The user then navigates to search and filter content to initiate a
search and view its results. After viewing the search results, the
user navigates to the space home and closes the space.
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250
500
0.18
0.645
0.771
0.6
0.417
0
0.645
0.771
2.111
0.417
0
0.645
0.771
0.6
0.371
0.417
0
0.645
0.771
0.609
0.582
0.838
0.417
0
0.645
0.771
1.192
1.002
0.417
0
0.645
0.235
1.157
0.417
0
0.645
0.943
0.728
0.088
0.417
0
0.117
0.54
161
40,348
0.745
1.803
2.099
1.78
1.16
0
1.803
2.099
4.053
1.16
0
1.803
2.099
1.78
1.172
1.16
0
1.803
2.099
1.762
1.575
1.932
1.16
0
1.803
2.099
2.595
2.059
1.16
0
1.803
0.897
2.395
1.16
0
1.803
2.084
1.427
0.207
1.16
0
0.387
1.38
157
78,317
METHODOLOGY
DATA COMPOSITION
The test scenarios used were exercised via HP’s LoadRunner
load generators using Documentum’s CenterStage v1.2 SP1
benchmark kit scripts and data expansion tools.
The data composition for this benchmark was built using a
custom data loader. A summary of the data composition
follows in Table 2:
HP LoadRunner was used as the load driver to drive the
activity of up to 500 concurrent users on the system.
Data Composition Summary
Measurements were recorded on all of the servers when the
user load was attained and the environment reached a steady
state.
1
500 spaces.
2
Each space has:

5 Discussions with 40 topics,

5 Wikis with 150 pages.

20 comments on every discussion topic

2 comments on each wiki page.

10 Folders with 10 sub folders with an average
of 10 documents per folder.

5 data tables with 1,000 rows, 20 fields per row.

Each user is a member of 100 spaces.
3
Repository: Approx. 1 million objects.
Figure 1 illustrates the multi-tiered benchmark environment
used for testing:
LoadRunner Definition
HP Mercury Load
Generator
Tomcat App Server Documentum
CenterStage
Tomcat App Server Documentum
CenterStage
1
Simulated 100, 250 and 500 concurrent users.
2
Pacing between iterations of 240-360 seconds with
think time of 16 seconds randomized to 75-125% .
3
Steady state of 60 minutes was used for compiling
results.
Table 2. Data Composition and Load Summary
SERVER PERFORMANCE
Documentum Content
Server
PATCH/UPDATE COMPLIANCE
The execution of this benchmark generated several
performance specific enhancements. These enhancements will
all be made available via Service Packs (or Hotfixes).
Oracle Database
Server
Performance may vary on other hardware and software
platforms and with other data composition models.
Figure 1. Test environment configuration
Each Documentum CenterStage Application server had one
Tomcat instance running with 2 GB min and max heap size. In
total, the test used 2 Tomcat instances for 500 concurrent
users.
SERVER UTILIZATION
Figure 2 summarizes average CPU cores consumed:
Figure 2. Average CPU Utilization
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BENCHMARK ENVIRONMENT
Content Server:
Content Server 6.7 was hosted on one VMware image as
follows:
HARDWARE CONFIGURATION
All VMware images were hosted on a Cisco C460 server
running 32 Intel® Xeon® x7560 cores running at 2.27GHz with
256GB RAM. The storage configuration is a 30 disk RAID 5
metaLUN running on a CLARiiON CX4-960.
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Load Runner Controller and Generators:
LoadRunner v11.0 was hosted on one VMware image as
follows:
 Two Intel Xeon x7560 virtualized processors operating at
2.26 GHz
 2 GB of memory
 One 40GB internal HDD
 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP2
Database Server:
Oracle 11.1.0.6 was hosted on one VMware image as follows:
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Application Servers:
Tomcat 6.0.29 with jdk1.6.0_26 hosting CenterStage
application was hosted on 2 VMware images as follows:


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Eight Intel Xeon x7560 virtualized processors operating
at 2.26GHz
8 GB of memory
Two internal HDD - 50GB, 120GB
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 64-bit
Eight Intel Xeon x7560 virtualized processors operating
at 2.26GHz
32 GB of memory
Two internal HDD - 50GB, 250GB
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 64-bit
Software Versions:
VMware ESX 4.0.0 build 261974
EMC Documentum Server 6.7 (6.7.0010.0226)
EMC Documentum CenterStage v1.2.1000.0056
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 64-bit
Oracle 11.1.0.6 64 bit Enterprise Edition
Apache Tomcat 5.0.29
Java 1.6.0_26
HP LoadRunner 11.0
Eight Intel Xeon x7560 virtualized processors operating
at 2.26GHz
8 GB of memory
Three internal HDD - 50GB, 20GB, 40GB
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 64-bit
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