topic Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package in Scalability

[deprecated] QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

Jens_Argentzell — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:46:14 GMT

This package is deprecated and will be no longer maintained.

This download contains a document that outlines all required information on how to access/execute/analyze/submit results for the QlikView Hardware Benchmarking test package. The goal with the QV HW Benchmarking package is to have a unified QlikView specific Hardware test that can be executed for various environments with the aim to establish a matrix for comparisons on how different servers and configurations perform with QlikView. The document contains information on how to download additional files needed and where to upload the results. This package only supports QlikView 11.

The QV Hardware benchmarking package consists of two parts, stand-alone QV desktop based and a QlikView Server based Benchmark tests, focusing different areas of hardware performance. QV documents and scripted tests are part of the Benchmarking package.

This package can be used for analytics on your own to perform comparisons of performance for different hardware configurations, but more important is that any test results are provided to the Scalability Center, making sure that your results becomes part of the general summary to improve coverage and statistical accuracy of the results.

This package is deprecated and will be no longer maintained.

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

IAMDV — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 01:16:49 GMT

Super stuff! Thanks for sharing.

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

hanselalf — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 07:46:08 GMT

Hi Jens,

graet stuff, but for me the download is not working. Something wrong here?

FTP Account Details

- FTP (Site requires secure SSL connection): ftpeu.qliktech.com

- User: SC-files

- Password: Files4Benchmarking

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

PawelF — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:27:54 GMT

Hi,

Are you using FTP client or trying to access FTP site from web browser?

I will update documentation for this. For web browser access you should be able to use following address:

https://ftpeu.qliktech.com/thinclient/

The user name and password is correct.

If you're using FTP client, can you tell me which one? I will try to check it.

Regards

Scalability Center

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

hanselalf — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:06:38 GMT

Hi Pawel,

thank you for your support. It was an internal network problem. Now it's working an I'm using ftp client filezilla.

Best regards

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:21:55 GMT

Hi, this is an excellent idea. I was able to run the stand alone desktop tests without any problems, however I am unable to open the SC_BenchmarkApp1.qvw on the QVS (access point or via open in server). I get the following error:

"Access denied! The server (XXX) is currently out of SESSION CALs. If the problem persists, please contact your system administrator."

I can open the document fine on the desktop - just not on the QVS. I can open all other documents fine on the access point (including other ones downloaded from the demo site), so it appears to be something specific to this QV Application (there are plenty of free CALS on the server).

The version I have is "SC_BenchmarkApp1_5_scripts_QV11_20120528".

If you have any ideas, I'm all ears.

Thanks

UPDATE: I have tried loading the version 10 application up on one of our current development servers (which I know is configured correctly and has CAL's), and am getting the same issue. So this appears to be affecting both version 10 and version 11 of the SC_BenchmarkApp1.qvw.

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

PawelF — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:04:11 GMT

Hi Graeme,

Sorry for late reply.

"Access denied! The server (QVS) is currently out of SESSION and USAGE CALs. If the problem persists, please contact your system administrator!" - is usually connected with wrongly configure QVS. In order to run 'Part 2 - QlikView Server Benchmark' successfully there is need for changing QVS configuration.

In order to make package independent on number of available CALs we used document embedded license to make sure that when test is run shortage of CALs will not be experienced. Using embedded license requires some setup on document level in order to work properly.

Please refer to documentation in this case especially to part: '1.8 QlikView Server and Web Server settings in QMC'.

We also advise to temporarily remove other mounted folders. Accessing or auto load of other documents will affect the benchmarking results.

If you have any questions regarding Benchmarking package do not hesitate to ask them.

Best regards,

Scalability Center

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:07:37 GMT

Hi Pawal,

Thanks for the information. I have never used the embedded licenses before (we predominantly use session CAL's here). Thanks for the pointer - I'll take a look into it.

Regards,

Graeme

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:45:02 GMT

Hi Pawel, what exact FTP protocol and port should I use? I tried SFTP, FTPS and FTP with SSL/TSL- nothing works and I get error "cannot establish connection to host 188.65.156.40

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

PawelF — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:38:22 GMT

Hi Borys,

It should work with FTP with SSL. Have you also tried the thinclient via web interface?

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 13:25:34 GMT

we spent 4 hours last week and reps from Qlik ended up creating an FTP account for us on Qlik's FTP location in US. They confirmed the issue and the ftp credentials above do not work. They said they put a request for your IT department.

Thin client works but it is terrible slow from US. I was able to dowload files from root folder and it took 5 hours but it was impossible to download 7 Gb qvw file. If you want I can PM your the name of a person from Qlik who helped me with FTP site on Qlik's US location.

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

Emmanuelle__Bustos — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:38:01 GMT

Excellent!!!

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

marksmunich — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:11:46 GMT

Interesting. Thanks !!!

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

qlikviewwizard — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 06:36:52 GMT

Good document. Thanks for sharing.

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

adamdavi3s — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 07:40:32 GMT

Bit late to the party here.... but we are running this as it looks excellent, however I am getting a 'not enough space for object heap' error... do I just literally need a bigger HDD?

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

Daniel_Larsson — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 07:54:39 GMT

adam davies wrote:

Bit late to the party here.... but we are running this as it looks excellent, however I am getting a 'not enough space for object heap' error... do I just literally need a bigger HDD?

Hi, are you running on a 32-bit or 64-bit OS?

On a 32-bit system the maximum heap size is 1280mb this is unfortunatly not enough for the benchmarking package to get reliable results.

If you're running on a 64-bit OS, make sure you are using 64-bit java.

We are allocating 3Gb of heap, so you need enough free RAM for this allocation on the machine.

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

adamdavi3s — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:03:07 GMT

haha it said KB so I read it as 300GB!

Running win 8x64 and 64gb ram so hopefully OK, I will double check the Java thank you

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

adamdavi3s — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:29:06 GMT

Perfect thank you, schoolboy error!

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

adamdavi3s — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:44:35 GMT

One final comment... there isn't much explanation about what the Err is?

It just says a growing rate isn't acceptable, but are results like this OK?

Re: QlikView 11 Hardware Benchmarking Package

Frederic_De_Ranter — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:58:39 GMT

Hi,

Seems you're having a configuration issue. You shouldn't have any errors when running the benchmarking package. So this result is not ok.

One way to check your configuration is to use firefox with the ModifyHeaders plugin to connect to the QlikView server under test. This way you can check if a connection can be made succesfully.