A Sun BluePrints Online article discusses the Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 with Oracle solution, describing the architecture and performance characteristics for determining proper sizing of systems.

This Sun-Oracle solution consists of the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System with Sun Blade T6340 server modules and the Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network ExpressModule (NEM), Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System, Sun Rack II, Solaris 10 Update 8 (SPARC), Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager, Sun GlassFish Web Space server, Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3, and Oracle Database 11g with RAC. The authors describe these components in detail, summarizing the architecture as one that "encompasses all needed components from the underlying hardware to the portal software, provides a flexible and adaptable implementation of highly available and scalable enterprise collaboration initiatives, delivered through a Web-based portal interface."

In regards to performance, the BluePrints article covers the test environment, workload, and test description, and summarizes the results for both a one blade and two blade server modules. Each server tested had 16 cores (128 threads), 32 GB of RAM, and virtualized NEM connectivity. For increased vertical scalability, multiple instances of the application/portal servers were run in six zones. And for increased horizontal scalability, multiple application/portal servers were deployed on more than one blade server module.

The results summary states that the study measured the rate as logins per second, assuming that logins are the most expensive operation and that the number of actual users to logins is approximately half the number of people logging in any given time to the number of active users accessing the portal. These assumptions represent a busy and casual portal site.

Based on the workload used during this test, the authors conclude, it is estimated that a configuration of one Sun Blade T6340 server module with six zones can actively serve portal Web pages to 73,200 active users at any given time.

"This solution provides flexibility, scalability, and unparalleled performance with RAS capabilities throughout the entire hardware and software stack," the BluePrints states, "and can help enterprises quickly deploy Web services and adapt their existing applications to Enterprise 2.0 requirements."

Procedures used to set up and configure the test environment are included in the appendix.

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