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Oracle Benchmarking on Cisco UCS driven by Intel® Xeon™ ProcessorsGreg Blotter & Jason DingPerformance and SolutionsServer, Access and Virtualization Business Unit

October 3-5, 2011

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• Released in 2005 for E-Business Suite version 11.5.10Modified in 2008 for E-Business Suite version 12.0.4Modified in 2010 for E-Business Suite version 12.1.2

• Developed on Linux/x86-64. Portable to other platforms.

• Benchmark kit is composed of three components:Online Transactions, Order-to-Cash Batch, Payroll Batch.

• Demonstrates performance and scalability on variety of platforms.

• Provides best practices and validates sizing guidelines.

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Four different data models simulate different-sized enterprise workloads.

Data Model Online Users Order-To-Cash Batch Payroll BatchSmall <= 1,000 10,000 Order Lines 5,000 Employees Medium 1,001 – 3,000 50,000 Order Lines 10,000 EmployeesLarge 3,001 – 10,000 100,000 Order Lines 50,000 EmployeesExtra-Large > 10,000 750,000 Order Lines 250,000 Employees

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• Final results are approved by Oracle and certified by independent auditor (InfoSizing) before publication.

• Published results and detailed benchmark reports are publicly accessible on Oracle web site.

• All tuning is documented and reproducible.

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Since the release of E-Business Suite R12, 13 payroll benchmarkresults have been published by various platform vendors.• Cisco UCS holds the top three positions.

With these benchmarks• Cisco UCS beats IBM System x by 60 percent.• Cisco UCS beats IBM System p by 64 percent.• Cisco UCS beats HP ProLiant by 84 percent.

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200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

700000

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Oracle E-Business Suite 12.0.4Extra-Large Model Payroll Batch Benchmark

Results Comparison

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.0.4Medium Model Payroll Batch Benchmark

Results Comparison

257,143

IBMPower 750

229,885

HP ProLiant DL380 G6

401,499

HP ProLiant DL380 G6

364,786

IBMx3550

422,535

Cisco UCSB200 M2

64% faster than IBM

84% faster than HP

581,846

Cisco UCSB200 M2

45% faster than HP

60% faster than IBM

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• Three New Performance World Records on Cisco UCS.• What are these benchmarks?• What does it mean to Oracle customers?

Innovative Architecture Ensures Performance throughout Oracle Stack

Cisco Performance Leadership – Top to BottomUCS Achieves Top Performance across the Entire Stack

EnterpriseApplications

MiddleWare

Database

OperatingSystem

Virtualization

Oracle E-BusinessSuite, PeopleSoft,

Siebel, JD Edwards,Oracle Fusion

Oracle WebLogic,Oracle SOA Suite,

OracleAS

Oracle Database,Oracle TimesTen

Oracle Linux

Oracle VM

Business User

BU

SIN

ES

S S

ER

VIC

ES

B230 M2

SPECjEnterprise2010 (2-Node)

Oracle WebLogic

Oracle Java HotSpot Server VM

Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Linux

26,118.67 EjOPSWorld Record

2-node ConfigurationAny Intel x86 based

B440 M2

Benchmark Details

Cisco UCS Model

World Record Results

SPECjbb2005Oracle Java HotSpot Server VM

B440 M2

SPECjbb2005Oracle Java HotSpot Server VM

2,798,763 BOPSWorld Record

4-socket

1,408,935 BOPSWorld Record

2-socket

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• Three New Performance World Records on Cisco UCS.• What are these benchmarks?

I. SPECjEnterprise2010II. SPECjbb2005

• What does it mean to Oracle customers?

-A realistic workload for measuring performance & scalability of J2EE H/W and S/W platforms

-Auto Industry-“Just-in-Time” Manufacturing-Supply Chain-Ordering/Inventory

-Customers: Car Dealers -browse catalogue-purchase automobiles-sell automobiles-track dealership inventory

-Real-world Business Model-Distributed-Large and Complex-Max efficient and mini inventories-Heavy weight-Mission Critical

A typical e-commerce environment built on J2EE Application Server Architecture

Transaction Type

Transaction Mix

Purchase (place orders) 25%

Manage Inventory

(sell or cancel orders)

25%

Browse (10 forwards + 3 backwards)

50%

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• Three New Performance World Records on Cisco UCS.• What are these benchmarks?

I. SPECjEnterprise2010II. SPECjbb2005

• What does it mean to Oracle customers?

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• Demonstrates the breadth and depth of Cisco’shigh-performance data center products.

• End-to-end solution using the Cisco UCS with both blade and rack-mount servers.

• United with Cisco networking technology.• Demonstrate Cisco UCS products work extremely well

with Oracle products (OS, AppServer, JVM, JDBC, DB).• Customers can power their enterprise applications with

high-performance UCS systems with confidence.

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• Three New Performance World Records on Cisco UCS.• What are these benchmarks?

I. SPECjEnterprise2010II. SPECjbb2005

• What does it mean to Oracle customers?

• Emphasizes the work of the middle tier: business logic and object manipulation.

• Clients are replaced by driver threads

• Database storage emulated by binary trees of objects.

• Exercises the implementations of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler, garbage collection, threads, and OS.

• Measures performance of CPUs, caches, memory hierarchy and the scalability of multi-core processors.

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• Three New Performance World Records on Cisco UCS.• What are these benchmarks?

I. SPECjEnterprise2010II. SPECjbb2005

• What does it mean to Oracle customers?

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• Achieved on Cisco UCS 2-socket and 4-socket blade servers.• Cisco has incorporated the top-of-the-line Intel Xeon E7 family

into a flexible, scalable, blade form factor.• Oracle JVM and enterprise application code run extremely well

on these blades.• Organizations can power enterprise applications even better

along with the agile, efficient, and simplified infrastructure of the Cisco UCS Blade Servers

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Cisco has an established tradition of demonstrating world-record performance on enterprise application benchmarks.• Oracle E-Business Suite• SPECjEnterprise2010• SPECjbb2005

Cisco UCS: The best x86 platform for Oracle environments.

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• Cisco UCShttp://www.cisco.com/go/ucsatwork

• Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Benchmarkhttp://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark

• SPEC Benchmarkshttp://www.spec.org

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John ChambersChairman and CEO, Cisco

Wednesday, October 5, 8:00 - 8:45 a.m.

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