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First Enterprise Application to Prove MySQL Supports Immense Scale

JAVAONE?San Francisco, Calif. - News Release:

• Today at JavaOne, Hyperic (Booth #1028), announced the results of a large scale performance study on Hyperic using Sun Microsystems? MySQL database as a backend.
• Results showed Hyperic monitoring upwards of 2.3 million metric transactions per minute.
• These results definitively prove that MySQL and Hyperic can be a compelling option for even the most demanding enterprise and web applications.
• Hyperic customer CNET was part of large-scale beta testing of MySQL on Hyperic.

About the tests:

• The tests simulated a large-scale deployment monitoring 32,000 services across 675 discreet managed platforms.
• There were two primary tests?designed to determine the actual and maximum loads amount of metrics per minute that Hyperic is capable of running on MySQL.
  • In the Actual Load test, Hyperic HQ averaged 220,000 metrics per minute, with minimal server load for either Hyperic HQ or MySQL.
  • In the Maximum Load test, Hyperic HQ achieved a record 2.3 million metrics per minute, with constraints on the Hyperic Server and only moderate load on MySQL.

• The test setup used standard hardware that would typically be used to run Hyperic HQ with MySQL
  • The Hyperic HQ Server ran on a 2 Quad Core, 2GHz machine with 16 GB of RAM, 4 GB of Heap and a NIC with a 1 GB interconnect between HQ and MySQL
  • The MySQL Database Server ran on a 2 Quad Core, 1596 MHz machine with 8 GB of RAM, 4.5 GB InnoDB buffer pool, 16 thread concurrency, O_DSYNC flush method, and RAID-1 146G SAS 3G HardDrives

Supporting Quotes:

“For growing web-driven companies, scaling their web applications is critical to their business. Traffic is unpredictable and can grow exponentially. Operations teams must not only monitor every component of their application stack, but quickly respond if things go wrong. These performance results prove that the combination of Hyperic and MySQL is a good fit for companies that need a massively scalable web infrastructure.? — Paul Melmon, senior vice president of engineering at Hyperic

?MySQL has been designed and optimized to handle the fast-growth and high-traffic requirements of today?s modern online applications. As Hyperic is also targeting this same Web audience, there is a natural synergy between our products. MySQL and Hyperic address enterprise-level needs for performance, scalability, availability and reliability.? –Zack Urlocker, vice president of products, Sun Microsystems Database Group

“Support for MySQL has proven to be a major win for Hyperic customers by offering a scalable, enterprise class data store with the array of features they demand to handle reliable backup, archive, and disaster recovery of the highly valuable data Hyperic HQ captures. Since the official release in late January, we’ve had about a quarter of our Enterprise customers either migrate or express interest in migrating to MySQL as a database backend.” –Marty Messer, director of customer success at Hyperic

Supporting resources:

MySQL Performance study

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Hyperic?s History with MySQL

Beginning today, administrators of Zimbra Collaboration Suite, the leader in open source, next-generation email and collaboration software, now have a fully supported, enterprise-ready solution for managing their complex, mission critical environments with the general availability of Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra. The plugin made available by Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, will allow Zimbra customers to easily monitor and manage the performance of their open source messaging and collaboration suite along with all other layers of their infrastructure.

Hyperic’s software provides unprecedented cross-stack visibility and helps enterprises to pinpoint, correct and prevent problems at every layer ? including hardware, networks, virtualization, middleware and applications. The new Hyperic HQ plugin instantly enables system administrators of Zimbra to take full advantage of Hyperic?s powerful management capabilities, including auto-discovery, monitoring, complex alerting and remediation.

“Email and collaboration are core components of running a business and we know that our customers are focused on providing the highest levels of availability for their messaging solution,? said Scott Dietzen, President and CTO of Zimbra. ?Hyperic HQ’s plug in for Zimbra provides a integrated solution to monitor Zimbra and to enable our customers to achieve a higher level of stability.”

“Hyperic is set on providing the most complete out-of-the-box technology support for the always-on, fast moving online services businesses,” said Doug MacEachern, CTO and co-founder of Hyperic. ?Email and collaboration play a pivotal role for these types of businesses to fluidly work together across geographies, teams, and topics. Now with the extra support from Hyperic HQ, Zimbra users can manage and monitor the overall health of all Zimbra deployments along with the rest of their IT systems infrastructure.?

About the plugin
The new plugin monitors the health and performance of every published performance statistic for Zimbra and its infrastructure components. For a full list of management metrics see the Zimbra wiki. The plugin allows Hyperic HQ to automatically discover the availability of the complete set of Zimbra daemons including: Zimbra Tomcat, Zimbra Logger MySQL, Zimbra MySQL, Zimbra OpenLDAP, Zimbra Cyrus SASL, Zimbra ClamAV, Zimbra Apache Httpd, Zimbra Postfix, Zimbra AMaViS, Zimbra Log Watch, Zimbra Swatch, and Zimbra MTA Config. Hyperic also supports full scale management of MySQL, Apache, Tomcat and OpenLDAP, other technologies used by Zimbra.

In addition to the Zimbra plugin, new OpenLDAP and Vyatta plugins were added to the HyperFORGE. Vyatta issued a press release this morning describing the Vyatta plugin and Hyperic?s partnership with Vyatta. For more information on the Vyatta plugin and relationship see the press release.

Availability
The Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra, OpenLDAP and Vyatta are available today and are supported for all current Hyperic 3.0 releases. The plugins, along with all other supported and user contributed plugins, are available on Hyperic’s HyperFORGE.