Seamless Upgrade to 8.5 Version. Performance Testing Tuning of Ektron & the Environment

Seamless Upgrade to Ektron 8.5Performance Testing and Tuning of Ektron and the Environment

Ranga Srinivasan – PresidentEmail: [email protected]

Aditya Rambha – Lead, Ektron Practiceemail: [email protected]

Agenda

• Benefit of 8.5 upgrade• Process of Upgrade • Performance testing• Tuning for best results

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Benefit of Upgrades

• Add New Set of Features– Microsoft Search Server Integration– Complete Framework API– Support for 3-Tier Architecture– Cleaner Workarea Interface

• Stability– eSync updates– Complete Over Haul of Load Balancing

• Performance– Our tests proves 20%-40% improvements based

on some upgrades we’ve done ( < v7.6, > v7.6)

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Agenda

Benefit of upgrades• Process of upgrade• Performance testing• Tuning for best results

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Process of Upgrade

• System Requirements • Existing Architecture• Types of Upgrade• Process Walkthrough• Best Practices

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Hardware System Requirements

• Web Server– Windows 2008 or above 64 bit (32 bit allowed for non search

components)– 8 GB (4 GB max if 32 bit used)– 2.6 GHz Quad core – 80 GB plus asset size free disk space

• Database Server– Windows 2008 or above 64 bit – 16 GB– 2.6 GHz Quad core

• Search Server– Windows 2008 or above 64 bit– 8 GB – 2.6 GHz Quad core – 80 GB plus 2xRam free disk space

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Software System Requirements

• IIS 7.0 or higher• Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 or

higher

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Review Existing Architecture

• Features and Functionality– eCommerce– Community–Micro sites– Etc.,

• Customization– Custom Code– Custom DB Scripts– Third Party Integrations

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Review Existing Architecture

• Baseline Performance metrics• eSync Setup• Load Balancing Setup• Search Functionality–Web Search– Product Search– Community search– XML Search

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Upgrade Best Practices

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• Search Server– Install PowerShell– Setup AD user for Search Server– Window Update Running– Copy assets / privateassets

• Web Server– Pause schedule eSync Profile– Backup certificates– Backup the site

• Database Server– Verify enough space– Backup the database

Process Walkthrough

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• Download the product• Upgrade Steps

Upgrade Steps

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Upgrade Steps

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Upgrade Steps

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Upgrade StepsSearch Server Connectivity

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Upgrade StepsRegistering Site with Search Server

• Site not registered

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Upgrade StepsRegistering Site with Search Server

• Connection String• Crawl Interval• Credentials• Advance crawl options

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Issues

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• HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

• Point “Sharepoint Central Administrator v4” website to .Net Framework 2.0 in IIS

Agenda

Benefit of upgradesProcess of upgrade• Performance testing• Tuning for best results

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Performance Goal

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Conclusions From Forrester / Akamai Study

Perceived page load times should be no more than two seconds. Companies direct online sales suffer when not meeting those expectations Companies will suffer in-directly across all channels and in the consumers’ perceptions of their brand

Performance Testing Goal

• Website is able to handle current and future website traffic?

• Website meets acceptable end user response time under Peak and Average Load Conditions?

• Plan and simulate future volume testing conditions.

• Identify, fine tune and optimize bottlenecks • Application level (through proper setup and

coding best practices)• Hardware (sizing, hosting, cloud etc..)• Servers – web, database and network

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Test Process and Challenges

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• Web Traffic Est. and Work Load Model• Planning for Load Testing• Team Work and Communication• Plan and Setup the Test Environment• Data Strategy• Scripting • Test Run and Monitoring• Results Analysis • Tuning• Retesting

QA & Performance Test Center

Managed Performanc

e Testing ServicesDBA

Ektron DeveloperPerformance

Test Engineer

CSS Engineer

Network Administrator

Ektron Architect

Designer/Navigation

Performance Test Types

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• Load Testing• Reliability Testing/Endurance Testing• Stress Testing• Volume Testing• Capacity and Scalability Testing• Configuration Testing

Performance Test Tools

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• When and Why to Automate? • HP Load Runner– VuGen– Controller– Analysis

• IBM Rational Performance Tester• OpenSTA• Jakarta Jmeter• SilkLoad

Methodology

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Optimize

Goal Achieved?

Measure

Analyze

Test and Measure

• Bounce Rate• Time on Site• Page Views• Page Load Time• Page Size• Server CPU Usage• Server RAM Usage• DB Connections

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Optimize

Goal Achieved?

Measure

Analyze

Analyze

• System Environments• Code Profile• Ektron Setup• Page Profile• Hardware Environment

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Optimize

Goal Achieved?

Measure

Analyze

Optimize

• Content Size• Images• CSS• JS• Cache• System Tuning• Code Tuning

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Optimize

Goal Achieved?

Measure

Analyze

Goal Achieved

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Optimize

Goal Achieved?

Measure

Analyze

• Bounce Rate• Time on Site• Page Views• Page Load Time• Page Size• Server CPU Usage• Server RAM Usage• DB Connections

Agenda

Benefit of upgradesProcess of upgradePerformance testing• Tuning for best results

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Tuning Overview

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Tuning Scope

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Performance Tuning

Web/Application server

IIS

Web Service Counters Adsutil

MetaEdit.NET

CLR TuningASP.NET Tuning

Enterprise Services

Application Pool Size Object Pool Size

Optimize Idle Time

ManagementPacket Privacy

Only

System

CPU Memory

Disk I/O Network I/O

Web Services

Configure maxconnections

Database server

SQL

Indexes

Cache

Transactions

Locks

System

CPU

Memory

Disk I/O

Network I/O

Environment Tuning

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• CMS and DB must be in Separate Server• Web and DB Server Configurations must match

with Site Traffic and Size• Caching Techniques• Page Level and Data Level Caching according to

requirement• Keep the Business Pages warm by TinyGet URL -

IIS Resources

Environment Tuning

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• Enable HTTP Compression • Web.config Settings– Ek_Cache Controls– Reduce Log Level– Disable Debug Mode– Increase ASP Threads per Processor Limit up to

the available resource limit– Disable WCF services tracing

Code Tuning

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• Taxonomy Tuning and Search (Depth and Level)• Splicing of Data rendering for list, multimedia and

other content to reduce whole data rendering at first load

• Reusable Code in Business logic• Avoiding Unnecessary Loops• Appropriate Use of Javascript

Code Tuning

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• Avoid too many post backs, use Ajax or JQuery• Zipped Files for lesser HTTP Request• Avoid In line JavaScript – make it as External • Avoid illegal characters in the URL• Avoid redirects wherever possible• Always keep CSS at Top, and Script below CSS• Avoid passing dynamic values to CSS

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Benefit of upgradesProcess of upgradePerformance testingTuning for best results

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Thank you