Benchmark Testing Results: Lawson System Foundation and Microsoft SQL Server i Benchmark Testing Results: Lawson System Foundation Running on SQL Server Benchmark testing confirms the performance and scalability of the Lawson System Foundation 9.0.1 running on SQL Server2008 R2 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Technical White Paper Published: October 2011 Applies to: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Abstract Lawson and Microsoft worked together on a series of benchmarking tests using Lawson System Foundation (LSF) 9.0.1 running on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. The goal of the benchmark testing was to confirm that the LSF module running on the Microsoft platform can meet the demands of the largest Lawson enterprise customers. The benchmark testing results confirm that LSF running on SQL Server is scalable and responsive. With its ability to scale on SQL Server, LSF not only meets the current needs of large customers, but can also scale as their needs grow. SQL Server can provide the additional benefits of reduced licensing, hardware, administration, and support fees for Lawson customers. Customers can be confident that LSF―deployed on SQL Server and Windows Server―provides a reliable, cost-effective, and low-maintenance platform that can help meet their performance and scalability requirements.
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Benchmark Testing Results: Lawson System Foundation and Microsoft SQL Server i
BenchmarkTestingResults:Lawson
SystemFoundationRunningonSQLServer
Benchmark testing confirms the performance and scalability of the Lawson System Foundation 9.0.1
running on SQL Server2008 R2 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
Technical White Paper Published: October 2011 Applies to: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Abstract
Lawson and Microsoft worked together on a series of benchmarking tests using Lawson System Foundation
(LSF) 9.0.1 running on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. The
goal of the benchmark testing was to confirm that the LSF module running on the Microsoft platform can
meet the demands of the largest Lawson enterprise customers.
The benchmark testing results confirm that LSF running on SQL Server is scalable and responsive. With its
ability to scale on SQL Server, LSF not only meets the current needs of large customers, but can also scale as
their needs grow. SQL Server can provide the additional benefits of reduced licensing, hardware,
administration, and support fees for Lawson customers.
Customers can be confident that LSF―deployed on SQL Server and Windows Server―provides a reliable,
cost-effective, and low-maintenance platform that can help meet their performance and scalability
requirements.
Benchmark Testing Results: Lawson System Foundation and Microsoft SQL Server ii
Overview of Lawson and LSF ............................................................................................................................ 1
Benefits of SQL Server....................................................................................................................................... 2
Hardware Used ................................................................................................................................................. 3
Software Used .................................................................................................................................................. 4
Test Details and Results ................................................................................................................................. 6
Online Human Resource Processing Form (HR11) ............................................................................................ 6
Online Payroll Record Processing Form (PR36) ................................................................................................ 8
Payroll Cycle Batch Test (PR Cycle) ................................................................................................................. 10
Online Accounts Payable Basic Invoice Form (AP20) ...................................................................................... 14
Accounts Payable Batch Test (AP Cycle) ......................................................................................................... 16
Online Finance Department Journal Transaction Form (GL40) ...................................................................... 18
General Ledger Batch Test (GL Batch) ............................................................................................................ 21
Additional Information ................................................................................................................................ 24
About Lawson ................................................................................................................................................. 24
About Microsoft.............................................................................................................................................. 24
Benchmark Testing Results: Lawson System Foundation and Microsoft SQL Server 1
Introduction The technological foundation of an organization’s business software determines, to a substantial
degree, its performance and value. Lawson has developed a standards-based infrastructure—
Lawson System Foundation (LSF)—that consolidates core Lawson technology and enterprise-class
technologies, with the goal of meeting or exceeding an organization’s expectations for ease of
implementation, application performance, investment protection, security, scalability, total cost of
ownership (TCO), and return on investment (ROI).
In August 2011, Lawson and Microsoft worked together on a series of benchmarking tests using LSF
9.0.1 running on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.
The goal of the tests was to demonstrate overall scalability of the system as the workload increases,
to validate the base sizing formulas used for LSF on the Microsoft platform, and to prove that the
Microsoft platform is a viable solution for large customer implementations.
The benchmark testing results determined that LSF running on SQL Server and Windows Server
provided scalability, and LSF and other components in the technology stack were able to take full
advantage of the 32 available processing cores. Highlights of the benchmark testing include the
following:
• The overall system was able to provide significant scalability.
o The maximum sustained number of concurrent users tested was 6,000 for the
online payroll record processing form test.
o The maximum number of concurrent batch jobs tested was 72 jobs for the payroll
batch process test with a volume of 288,000 employees.
• No physical memory saturation or excessive paging was observed.
• SQL Server was not the limiting factor in any of the benchmark tests.
This white paper presents the details of the hardware and software used in the benchmark testing,
in addition to the full results. Links are provided for further information.
OverviewofLawsonandLSF Lawson provides software and service solutions to more than 4,500 customers worldwide in the
manufacturing, distribution, maintenance, healthcare, and service sectors. Lawson solutions help
customers simplify their businesses by helping them streamline processes, reduce costs, and
enhance business or operational performance.
Applications in the Lawson S3 product line are designed to help customers staff, source, and serve.
These applications primarily target services industries such as enterprise financial management,
human resource management, supply chain management, and business intelligence. Industries that
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use Lawson S3 products include healthcare, retail, state government, local government, and K-12
education.
LSF, the Lawson middleware layer, insulates the Lawson S3 applications from the underlying
operating systems and databases on which the applications are deployed. LSF provides
performance, scalability, and security to the Lawson S3 applications. LSF combines an industry
standard, open run-time environment with tools for managing deployment, security, and
performance to meet an organization’s industry-unique operational needs.
BenefitsofSQLServer SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides a reliable, cost-effective, low-maintenance database
framework for LSF that can support the largest and most process-intensive deployments. SQL Server
is a comprehensive, integrated, and enterprise-ready data-management software solution.
Hundreds of enterprises are currently running 10 terabyte (TB) and larger transactional databases
on SQL Server.1
Running LSF on SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides Lawson customers with many benefits,
including:
• Scalability and performance.
SQL Server includes many features that help Lawson customers scale up and scale out as
their businesses grow.2
• Lower hardware costs.
SQL Server runs on standard commodity server hardware, dramatically lowering the TCO
when compared to mainframe hardware.
• Lower software costs.
With SQL Server, customers can typically enjoy a 3:1 reduction in licensing costs compared
to the largest competitor.3
• Simpler systems management and lower staffing costs.4
SQL Server database administrators (DBAs) can typically manage three times as many
physical databases as a competitor’s DBAs.5
• Lower maintenance costs.6
SQL Server first-year maintenance costs are up to 77% less than those of the largest