System Performance And Reliability; Operations, Administration And Maintenance - Alcatel-Lucent VitalQIP 7.2 Product Description

VitalQIP Product Description
VitalQIP has been deployed on hardware vendor supported high availability configurations.
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SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY

VitalQIP has been architected to provide the industry's leading performance and reliability.
In a traditional server environment, the DHCP server has been benchmarked by Exodus Labs at
successfully dispensing over 79,000 DHCP leases per minute. These leases are the full four-packet
DHCP exchange, not including "renews." This is the highest performance as reported by an independent
testing agency. The DNS server has been clocked at over 10,000 DNS queries per second, which is on
the order of industry performance. Performance of other components such as administrative clients and
the database can be engineered and configured according with specifications especially with respect to
memory.
The Alcatel-Lucent Appliance follows in the same path by providing the best price performance solution
in the market today.
Model 1000 Appliance
Powered by a high performance 64-bit Architecture Intel
platform.
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DNS: 36,000 Queries per Second
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DHCP: 3,200 Leases per Second
Model 5000 Appliance
Powered by two 64-bit Dual-Core Intel
platform with mirrored RAID 1 and dual power supplies.
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DNS: 95,000 Queries per Second
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DHCP: 6,400 Lease per Second
The reliability of VitalQIP is also based on customer needs and design. The DHCP failover mechanism
provides for highly reliable DHCP service to clients via hot sparing type functionality. The DNS
architecture is inherently redundant, and Alcatel-Lucent fully supports this. Other VitalQIP services can
be distributed for high reliability. The use of database add-ons such as Oracles' Transaction Application
Failover (TAF) can also be employed to support a highly available system.
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OPERATIONS, ADMINISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE

The VitalQIP administrator can install, configure, and maintain the IP Name and Address services. The
administrator also can monitor service and capacity levels. Administration can be performed either at the
central site or remotely. Regularly performed administration such as database backups, reclaiming of
addresses, and file transfers to the DNS and DHCP server processes can be scheduled to execute at a
certain time or at a certain interval. All tasks can be executed from the GUI interfaces or from CLI
commands. This is further enhanced by the ability to deploy VitalQIP architecture on a full appliance
based solution. This easies not only the set-up but also the administration and pact management.
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