Igloo Products Corporation, the world's #1 cooler manufacturer, has migrated its legacy IBM mainframe IT infrastructure to Oracle's Sun SPARC servers and Oracle software in a move that is anticipated to deliver 169% ROI in three years and a break-even point in the first year. Igloo has consolidated its operations on two Sun SPARC Enterprise T-Series servers -- the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 -- in a virtualized system employing Oracle Solaris Containers. Igloo has determined that it can reduce its former monthly hosting fees by half now that it uses 66% fewer servers and 83% fewer CPUs.
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Using two SPARC T4-4 servers to run the application and database tiers and one SPARC T4-2 server to run the webserver tier, Oracle demonstrated world record performance of 15,000 concurrent users running the PeopleSoft HRMS Self-Service 9.1 benchmark on Oracle Solaris 10. This combination of the SPARC T4 servers running the PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1 benchmark supports 3.8x more online users with faster response time compared to the best published result from IBM on the previous PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9 benchmark. The average CPU utilization on the SPARC T4-4 server in the application tier handling 15,000 users was less than 50%, which leaves significant room for application growth. The application tier was configured with two PeopleSoft application server instances on the SPARC T4-4 server hosted in two separate Oracle Solaris Containers to demonstrate consolidation of multiple application, ease of administration, and load balancing.
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Along with his announcement of the release of Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3.05/11 Update 1 Juergen Schleich blogs that the package version of the Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 05/11 Update1 is the same for the core framework and the agents as for Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3. Therefore, he points out, it's possible to patch up an existing Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3. On the other hand, he continues, the package version of the Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 3.3 05/11 Update1 is NOT the same as Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 3.3, although it's possible to upgrade the Geographic Edition 3.3 without interruption of the service. Schleich's blog includes an extensive list of patch revisions for both Solaris 10 10/09 Update8 or higher and for Solaris 10 x86 10/09 Update8 or higher.
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Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 11g update 2 is now available, blogs Steve Wilson. Current users should see update 2 available in their auto update tab when logged into the enterprise controller. Update bundles will be available shortly through Oracle eDelivery, Wilson announces, promising to post updated links to those as soon as they're available. The new features in update 2 include support for Oracle Linux 6 and Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.1, plus various improvements in virtual networking set up for Oracle VM SPARC guests and Oracle Solaris Containers
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Oracle has posted a tabular list of Supported Virtualization and Partitioning Technologies for Oracle Database and RAC Product Releases that identifies those virtualization/partitioning technologies already supported and reaffirms the policies that each new OS and its complementary virtualization/partitioning technology, must be certified by Oracle and, further, that each new OS plus its virtualization/partitioning solution must be guaranteed by the appropriate hardware vendor to be backward compatible to the version listed in the tables cited in the above link.
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