The following software and hardware configuration was used in conducting the SAM 9.1 benchmarking:

Table 1. Service Assurance Manager benchmarking hardware

Hardware

Operating system

CPU quantity

CPU Model

Memory

PowerEdge R310 - Dell

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8

4

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz

16 GB

The following three setups were used to deploy the Service Assurance Manager components and domain manager.