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Rational® Performance Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about what's new, installation, and known issues in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Performance Tester.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the task flows to get you started with Rational® Performance Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
- Tutorials
  This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of Rational® Performance Tester.
- Samples
  This section describes about the sample project which can be used with Rational® Performance Tester to test the functionality of an application.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Test Author Guide
  This guide describes how to create test scripts in Rational® Performance Tester and enhances tests by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points. This guide is intended for testers.
- Test Execution Specialist Guide
  This guide describes tasks that you can perform on schedules, test execution with custom code, and Extending Rational® Performance Tester to support other protocols. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. This guide is intended for test managers.
- Troubleshooting Guide
  This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with Rational® Performance Tester.
- Reference Guide
  This guide describes, additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Performance Tester.
- All Guides (PDFs)
  This page contains the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides for Rational® Performance Tester in PDF format.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
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AIX


Hardware	Components	Requirement	Notes
Disk space	Rational® Performance Tester Agent	10 GB	Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install. Large test runs can store several gigabytes of data. Make sure that you have adequate disk space before attempting a large test run. For best results with large test runs, use 16 GB of RAM. For best results with large test runs, use a 2.30 GHz or higher Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
Memory	Rational® Performance Tester Agent	8 GB
Processor	Rational® Performance Tester Agent	1.86 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or higher

Linux


Hardware	Components	Requirement	Notes
Disk space	Rational® Performance Tester Agent Rational® Performance Tester Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality	10 GB	Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install. An additional 500 MB of disk space is required in the /tmp directory.
Memory	Rational® Performance Tester Agent Rational® Performance Tester Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality	8 GB	For best results with large test runs, use 16 GB of RAM.
Processor	Rational® Performance Tester Agent Rational® Performance Tester Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality	Minimum: 1.86 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or higher	For best results with large test runs, use a 2.30 GHz or higher Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

Mac


Hardware	Components	Requirement	Notes
Disk space	Rational® Performance Tester Agent Rational® Performance Tester Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality	10 GB	Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install. Large test runs can store several gigabytes of data. Make sure that you have adequate disk space before attempting a large test run.
Memory	Rational® Performance Tester Agent Rational® Performance Tester Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality	8 GB	For best results with large test runs, use 16 GB of RAM.
Processor	Rational® Performance Tester Agent Rational® Performance Tester Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality	Minimum: 1.86 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or higher	For best results with large test runs, use a 2.30 GHz or higher Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

Windows


Hardware	Components	Requirement	Notes
Disk space	Rational® Performance Tester Agent Rational® Performance Tester Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality	10 GB	Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install. Large test runs can store several gigabytes of data. Make sure that you have adequate disk space before attempting a large test run. Additional disk space is required if you use FAT32 instead of NTFS. An additional 500 MB of disk space is required in the directory that you specify in the environment variable TEMP.
Memory	Rational® Performance Tester Agent Rational® Performance Tester Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality	8 GB	For best results with large test runs, use 16 GB of RAM.
Processor	Rational® Performance Tester Agent Rational® Performance Tester Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality	Minimum: 1.86 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or higher	For best results with large test runs, use a 2.30 GHz or higher Intel Core 2 Duo processor.