The authors tested the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 on a SPARC T4 while migrating the guest domain from one SPARC T4 server to another without shutting down the Oracle DB. Testing used the Swingbench OrderEntry workload that ships with Oracle 11g to generate workload. The scenario includes a 30GB DB disk size with 18GB SGA size and 50 workload users; the time between actions taken by each user was 100 ms. The paper shows the complete configuration process, including the creation and configuration of guest domains using the ldm command.
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Among the recent records set by Oracle technology is the one reported in SPARC Enterprise M8000 with Oracle 11g Beats IBM POWER7 on TPC-H @1000GB Benchmark. In this instance an Oracle SPARC Enterprise M8000 server configured with SPARC64 VII+ processors, Oracle's Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array storage, Oracle Solaris, and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 achieved a TPC-H performance result of 209,533 QphH@1000GB with price/performance of $10.13/QphH@1000GB, surpassing the performance of the IBM POWER7 server on the 1 TB TPC-H decision support benchmark.

The benchmark revealed that the SPARC Enterprise M8000 server delivers higher performance than the IBM Power 780 even though the SPARC VII+ processor-core is 1.6x slower than the POWER7 processor-core. The SPARC Enterprise M8000 server was found to be 27% faster than the IBM Power 780. IBM's reputed single-thread performance leadership did not provide benefit for throughput in this test.
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