Exactly how does one go about deploying a large number of zones on an M8000 Enterprise Server, especially given that twelve separate links would be needed for the different networks and twice that number for IPMP. In the course of answering this question for a customer, Steffen Weiberle came up with a number of suggestions in his blog "Solaris 10 Zones and Networking -- Common Considerations."
Results of the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0 benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and X6270 blade servers are available. This benchmarking report is particularly significant, writes Giri Mandalika in his Scratchpad blog, because the workload has both online transactions and batch processes and, furthermore, it is the first time Sun has published a PeopleSoft benchmark on x64 hardware running Oracle Enterprise Linux.
ETSA Utilities, South Australia's primary electricity distributors with 800,000 residential and business customers, faced the task of upgrading its legacy IT infrastructure that hosts the company's ERP system while at the same time improving the processing time of ERP system jobs and increasing the availability of ERP mission-critical systems. In addition, ETSA sought to reduce payroll processing time and improve data load time. The utility found the infrastructure it was looking for in the Sun product line.
How valid are HP's claims of pre-eminence in SAP SD benchmarks? In a Sun Performance and Best Practices blog, Guido Ficco comments on significant SAP SD 2 Tier results and HP claims. According to Ficco, HP's claims rely on data skewed to establish their result. In defense of his position, Ficco cites the results for the latest version of SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode).
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