The Oracle White Paper "Deploying Oracle Database on Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series Systems" provides technical information on the Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series systems and the mainframe-class RAS features and resource management capabilities that they offer. The white paper also explores the virtualization capabilities provided by Oracle Solaris and the Oracle Sun Enterprise M-series Systems, and offers as well several recommendations on how to combine virtualization technologies for enterprise deployments of Oracle Database.
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The TPC BenchmarkTM H (TPC-H) is a Decision Support benchmark that evaluates the performance of various Decision Support systems by the execution of sets of queries against a standard database under controlled conditions. In this particular instance, as reported by Joerg Moellenkamp in his blog, a Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition with partitioning and automatic storage management was pitted against an IBM p595, with both servers at the same 3 TB scaling factor. The Sun M9000-32 was reported to yield 188,229 QphH@3000GB with 32 processors, 128 cores, resulting in $23.99/QphH@3000GB.
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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."
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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.
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The quick-start guide "Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" by Ulrich Conrad provides an introduction to the steps for creating and preparing volumes on a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (release 2009.Q3) to be published and used by a server running Microsoft Windows for use with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a common "share."
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