Yet another BM Seer benchmark blog, this time on the Sun Fire X4270 Server Two-tier SAP-SD ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Standard world record performance.

Seer reports that the Sun Fire X4270 server with two Intel Xeon X5570 processors (8 cores, 16 threads) achieved 3,700 SAP SD Benchmark users running SAP ERP application release 6.0 enhancement pack 4 benchmark with unicode software, using Oracle 10g database and Solaris 10 OS.

He explains that this benchmark result highlights the optimal performance of SAP ERP on Sun Fire servers running the Solaris OS and the seamless multilingual support available for systems running SAP applications.

The Sun Fire X4270 server beat both 2-processor HP ProLiant DL380 G6 and HP ProLiant BL460c G6 by 12% even though all three systems use the same processors and memory, according to Seer.

In January 2009, a new version, the Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark, was released. This new release has higher cpu requirements and so yields from 25-50% fewer users compared to the previous Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 (non-unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark.

Results for the IBM System x3650 were obtained with the older SAP ERP 6.0 (non-unicode) version, Seer notes, asking why IBM did not move to the new version as Sun did. He adds that IBM has not published a benchmark using the new SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark.

Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website.

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