Recently Oracle's Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array was put to the test. Two IO performance metrics were measured on the solid-state flash array using Vdbench 5.0. This is a disk and tape I/O workload generator for verifying data integrity and measuring performance of direct attached and network connected storage. The flash array delivered 17 GB/sec sequential read throughput performance for 1 MB transfers and 10 GB/sec write sequential throughput performance for 1 MB writes.
(Get More Information . .)
When Oracle released its Sun Fire X4800 a few weeks ago, its documentation described the high-end x86 enterprise system as providing up to 8 sockets of Intel Xeon Processor 7500 series CPUs, huge memory, hot-plug PCI-Express gen 2 IO options, including access to up to 8 x 1GbE and 8 x 10GbE NICs and compute scalability up to 64 cores (128 threads with Intel Hyperthreading enabled). Now with Oracle VM, Wim Coekaerts reports full utilization of all 64 cores can be had even without hyperthreading enabled.
(Get More Information . .)
Find out more about Oracle's Sun Fire X4800 server architecture in a white paper that details the Intel Xeon 7500 technology and the inner-workings of the X4800, along with its systems management and operating systems choice. The Sun Fire X4800 is a new high-end x86 enterprise system, providing up to 8 sockets of Intel Xeon Processor 7500 series CPUs, huge memory, hot-plug PCI-Express gen 2 IO options, including access to up to 8 x 1GbE and 8 x 10GbE NICs and compute scalability up to 64 cores (128 threads with Intel Hyperthreading enabled).
(Get More Information . .)
The Sun Fire X4275 Server comes in for some generous praise in Dave Mitchell's review for ITPro, from whom it receives four out of six stars as a solution eminently qualified for duty in such storage-hungry applications such as multimedia, data warehousing and video surveillance, given its 12 TB and 24 TB SATA drive configurations.
(Get More Information . .)
Sun Fire X4170, X4270 and X4275 are part of Sun's new family of servers based on the Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. These new servers are best suited for large enterprises as well as for sophisticated small and medium businesses (SMB).
(Get More Information . .)
News and Solutions for Users of Solaris, Java and Oracle's Sun hardware products
Just the news you need, none of what you don't –
42,000+ Members – 24,000+ Articles Published since 1998
