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An Oracle Business White Paper April 2013

Oracle Solaris and SPARC Technology Redefining Data Center Economics


Introduction 1

Data Center Innovation Redefining Data Center Economics 3

Oracle Solaris 3

Oracle SPARC Solutions to Fit Every Need 4

The Extensive Oracle Solaris Ecosystem 6

Reducing Cost Through Consolidation 6

Built-in Virtualization 7

Performance Scalability and Flexibility for Massive Consolidation 7

Streamlining IT with a Cloud-Ready Platform 8

The Best Platform for Oracle Deployments 10

Mission-Critical Availability 12

Summary 14

For More Information 15


Introduction

Modern data center management is a constant balancing act requiring rapid responses to new business opportunities and careful management of existing infrastructure costs Choosing infrastructure platforms that can meet both needs is key to successful IT organizations

Many data center teams are turning to cloud-style deployments to rapidly deploy new services and consolidate existing infrastructure for the best return on investment Platforms designed for cloud infrastructure accelerate business results faster than traditional standalone server network and storage implementations

Implementing successful cloud infrastructure requires more than state-of-the art data center technologies such as fast wide-area networks powerful servers immense storage capacities and pervasive high-performance virtualization -- it requires an end-to-end technology vision

Oraclereg delivers a focused enterprise data center portfolio designed around the principle of hardware and software engineered to work together This approach results in a co-engineered tested and optimized enterprise stack that reduces risk delivers leading performance and simplifies deployment and management

Oracle Solaris and Oraclersquos SPARC T-Series and M-Series processors and servers are at the heart of Oraclersquos IT platform solutions Built-in server network and storage virtualization technologies along with Oracle 12c Enterprise Manager Cloud Control make these Oracle Solaris systems the best cloud infrastructure solution for mission critical cloud deployments Thousands of Oracle customers are using these platforms today to efficiently consolidate their data center environments and rapidly deploy new services

Modern cloud infrastructure relies on platforms that are fast scalable and cost effective The faster the platform the more business transactions can be accomplished Scalable platforms ensure that as existing applications are consolidated onto cloud-ready systems those systems respond gracefully as platform utilization increases While getting speed and scale in a cost-effective solution can result in a tradeoff with other vendors Oracle recently unveiled the best cost performance platforms for enterprise cloud infrastructure

To achieve these outstanding cost performance results Oraclersquos SPARC systems and Oracle Solaris are painstakingly co-engineered to deliver world-class performance as evidenced by a

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multitude of record-breaking benchmarks Oracle SPARC T4-based servers have set 20 records and the latest Oracle SPARC T5-based servers already boast 17 impressive results Figure 1 summarizes some of the most recent achievements

FIGURE 1 ORACLE SOLARIS DELIVERS LEADING BENCHMARK RESULTS ON ORACLE SPARC T5

BENCHMARK RESULT

TPC-C Fastest Database Server

SPECjbb 2013 Fastest Java Server

SPECjEnterprise 2010 Fastest Middleware Server

SPEC CPU 2006 Fastest raw processor performance

SAP-SD Fastest SAP 8-processor Server

Siebel Fastest CRM Server

Oraclersquos SPARC system pricing is designed to deliver the best value to data center customers This highly competitive pricing model combines with outstanding performance for these results

bull Oracle SPARC T5-8 is the fastest single server for Oracle Middleware with a 12x cost performance advantage over the IBM Power 780 (1)

bull Oracle SPARC T5-8 server has a 25x price performance advantage over the IBM P780 3-node cluster when including hardware and software costs (2)

bull Oracle SPARC T5-8 server has a 7x price advantage over a similar IBM Power 780

configuration for database on a server-to-server basis (3)

bull Oracle SPARC M5-32 high end server delivers a 25x cost advantage over a comparable IBM system (4) with massive IO and memory capacity for large complex workloads and application consolidation

This paper discusses how Oracle Solaris combines with the latest Oracle SPARC-based systems to deliver cost effective highly efficient cloud infrastructure platforms as well as providing the best platform for Oracle application database and middleware deployments

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Data Center Innovation Redefining Data Center Economics

Oraclersquos strategy is to deliver best-of-breed products including hardware systems the Oracle Solaris operating system (OS) and the broad portfolio of Oracle software including Javatrade technology Oracle Database middleware and applications As shown in Figure 2 Oraclersquos focus on co-engineering extends broadly to integrate the entire application stack from the application layer at the top to disk storage systems at the bottom Oracle is the number one vendor in the top three software segments (applications middleware and database) and Oracle Solaris is today the number one deployment platform in the market for Oracle Database applications Best of all this complete top-to-bottom solution is open and fully integrated

Figure 2 Oracle Solaris and SPARC servers are at the heart of Oraclersquos product set

Developed together for over two decades Oracle Solaris and SPARC technology lie at the center of Oraclersquos integrated product portfolio As the owner of the intellectual property comprising both technologies Oracle has freedom to innovate at all levels of processor OS system and software designmdashallowing effective optimization for efficient computation and data flow from application to disk Beyond performance when operational issues are considered this approach significantly reduces the amount of integration and test work that adopting organizations might otherwise face Rigorous testing of every component up and down the stackmdashfrom firmware to applicationsmdashminimizes risk by ensuring safe system and software updates As an example of the power and flexibility of this approach Oracle integrates virtualization technology into both the Oracle Solaris operating system as well as select processor firmware helping to ensure that the optimum virtualization technology is available for the applications that need it

Oracle Solaris

Oracle Solaris helps Oracle deliver integrated hardware and software solutions that are reliable scalable and secure In fact tens of thousands of organizations worldwide depend on Oraclersquos SPARC-based systems and Oracle Solaris to run their business These organizations rely on the maximum scalability that is achieved when multi-core servers and highly threaded operating systems host middleware and applications that are tuned to take advantage of these capabilities

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Servers built using SPARC processors offer over 1500 threads and 32 terabytes (32 TB) of memory To exploit these ample resources Oracle Solaris offers the industry-leading threading model the result of nearly two decades of innovation and use by demanding workloads Oracle Database and middleware products have been tuned to maximize performance and scalability on Oraclersquos SPARC platforms Oracle Solaris also provides an exceptionally secure environment offering on-chip encryption capabilities a robust cryptographic framework Trusted Extensions and virtualization capabilities Finally a comprehensive development platform enables organizations to create new applications that maximize solution performance while improving reliability

Oracle SPARC Solutions to Fit Every Need

SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a RISC instruction set architecture developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) The scalable aspect of SPARC comes from the fact that the SPARC specification allows implementations to scale from embedded processors up through large server processors all sharing the same (non-privileged) core instruction set

The scalability and performance of the latest SPARC T5-based systems derives from the proven ldquoS3rdquo coremdashfirst introduced in Oraclersquos SPARC T4 processormdashwhich delivered a significant boost in single-threaded application performance The placement of 16 of these cores in the SPARC T5 processormdash accompanied by a move to a 28nm processmdashyields a predicted 25-fold performance improvement Oraclersquos SPARC T5 systems also offer double the IO bandwidth of their predecessors along with larger CPU and memory configurations Similarly Oraclersquos SPARC M5 platforms deliver up to a six-fold throughput improvement over their predecessors

A single version of Oracle Solaris runs across Oraclersquos SPARC systems including Oracle SPARC M-Series servers and SPARC T-Series servers This compatibility allows data centers to run a single OSmdash Oracle Solarismdashgreatly simplifying administration

Oracles SPARC servers running Oracle Solaris are ideal for mission-critical applications requiring high performance best-in-class availability and unmatched scalability on all application tiers SPARC servers include built-in virtualization systems management and security at no additional cost

Oracle SPARC servers systems and solutions are provided to fit every need

bull O r a c l e S P A R C T -S e r i e s S e r v e r s Based on the worldrsquos fastest microprocessor Oraclersquos SPARC T-Series servers running Oracle Solaris delivers up to 23x performance improvement over the previous generation processor

bull O r a c l e S P A R C M -S e r i e s S e r v e r s Powered by the new SPARC M5 processor Oraclersquos SPARC M5-32 server is a massively scalable SMP data center server designed for very large business-critical workloads and server consolidation

bull O r a c l e E n g i n e e r e d S y s t e m s Oracle Engineered Systems are pre-integrated to reduce the cost and complexity of IT infrastructure while increasing productivity and performance Oraclersquos SPARC SuperCluster is a prime example of this integrated approach combining tested and tuned SPARC T-Series servers storage interconnect and software that is ready to deploy

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bull O r a c l e O p t i m i z e d S o l u t i o n s Oracle Optimized Solutions are applications-to-disk solutions comprised of SPARC servers storage and networking components configured and integrated with Oracle Solaris Oracle Database Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle applications Oracle is the only company to provide the complete optimized technology stackmdashincluding the vital application layermdashwith engineering tuning and collaboration provided at every level

Lowering Risk and Protecting Investments

Organizations already using Oracle Solaris and SPARC technology enjoy a degree of investment protection unparalleled in the industry Oracle is unique in offering a far-reaching binary compatibility guarantee minimizing risk and requalification effort in deploying older applications onto the latest OS version Compatibility is also provided between the SPARC and x86 releases of Oracle Solaris such that code can easily be recompiled to move x86 applications to the more scalable SPARC environment

As well as protecting existing investments the set of features and programming interfaces in Oracle Solaris grows richer over time and continuing improvements are constantly made in both CPU and compiler technology If source code is available older Oracle Solaris applications can be easily recompiled and often achieve significant performance improvementsmdashespecially when moving to more powerful hardware Those same improvements apply equally to code built with open source tools In fact Oracle testing on SPARC T5-based systems has demonstrated up to five-fold application performance increases for code compiled with Oracle Solaris Studio compilers when compared to open source alternatives

Moving existing infrastructure onto the latest operating system and hardware platforms is greatly simplified by the combination of binary compatibility and flexible virtualization technologies Oraclersquos published roadmap for SPARC systems (Figure 3) confirms continuing coordinated investment in Oracle Solaris and platform technologies providing even greater scalability and performance into the future Oraclersquos SPARC T5 and SPARC M5 Series servers can run both Oracle Solaris 10 and Oracle Solaris 11 and support consolidation of Oracle Solaris 8 and Oracle Solaris 9 applications using Oracle Solaris Zones feature protecting investments even further

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Figure 3 The Oracle Solaris and SPARC technology roadmap helps protect technology investments

The Extensive Oracle Solaris Ecosystem

Oraclersquos comprehensive portfolio of operating system virtualization and cluster technologies includes Oracle Solaris Oracle VM Server for SPARC Oracle Solaris Cluster and Oracle Solaris Studio software development tools which form the core of a large developer ecosystem Oracle Solaris is a proven industry-leading operating system with features designed to handle business-critical enterprise operations In fact Oracle Solaris provides key functionality for virtualization optimal utilization high availability unparalleled security and extreme performance for both vertically and horizontally scaled environments Oracle Solaris runs on a broad range of SPARC systems and compatibility with existing applications is guaranteed Over 50000 businesses and institutions run over 11000 certified applications on Oracle Solaris today Coupled with SPARC servers Oracle Solaris continues to set world records for performance scalability and cost-effectiveness Oracle is also continuing to improve and enhance Oracle Solaris and will continue to develop innovative technologies

Reducing Cost Through Consolidation

Virtualization technology is increasingly popular and available but there are very real limits to the number of workloads that can be consolidated onto commodity x86 servers As a result large networks of small servers can still proliferate adding to expensive and cumbersome server sprawl As these installations inevitably grow so does the need for potentially complex networking and other power hungry resources Licensing and management of multiple OS images and even virtualization software can likewise spiral out of control if not managed very carefully There may also be instances where commodity x86 systems simply do not offer the compute and memory capacity to serve workloads that

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continue to grow in size and complexity In contrast a recent IDC study has shown that SPARC systems running Oracle Solaris can offer dramatically lower costs over a three-year period when compared to x86-based Linux systems1

Built-in Virtualization

There is no additional cost for using virtualization when running Oracle Solaris on Oraclersquos SPARC systems Two complementary virtualization technologies are available At the hardware level Oracle VM Server for SPARC allows the creation of virtual machines with unique configurations of OS version and workload Implemented through the hypervisor on Oraclersquos SPARC T-Series platforms this approach provides the additional benefit of live migration over a secure network connection Complementing Oracle VM Server for SPARC Oracle Solaris Zones is a feature of Oracle Solaris and uses the process management resource management and security features of the operating system to isolate and manage multiple workloads Both technologies are provided at no extra cost

Oraclersquos SPARC based systems can support extensive consolidation either through Oracle Solaris Zones or Oracle VM Server for SPARC or a combination of the two Further efficiency is gained through flexible power management helping to ensure optimal workload response against the power management policy set for the system Oracle Solaris Zones can also take on the personality of earlier Oracle Solaris releases In fact live migration and physical-to-virtual migration tools can vastly simplify the re-hosting and consolidating of workloads from older Oracle Solaris systems into a zone on newer hardware This ability means that replacing aging and power-hungry infrastructure is a simple operation typically requiring no costly re-qualification process for compliance or recoding (or even recompiling) of applications As Oracle continues to develop and deliver more powerful systems this flexibility also paves the way to future consolidation and cost savings

Network virtualization native to Oracle Solaris further enhances the consolidation experience since common network functions such as switches and load balancers can become virtual software instances rather than physical components This ability reduces latency in communication between the different tiers of an application and reduces the amount of physical hardware and cabling that must be deployed Oracle Virtual Networking allows for consolidation at the interconnect fabric layer providing seamless interaction with Linux and Microsoft Windows environments along with interoperability with the full set of network and storage protocols

Performance Scalability and Flexibility for Massive Consolidation

To be able to consolidate effectively new systems must have the performance capacity security and scalability to support expected performance levels for targeted applicationsmdasheven as applications change and grow over time The near-linear scalability and flexibility of Oraclersquos SPARC systems

1 SPARC Servers An Effective Choice for Efficiency in the Datacenter (httpwwworaclecomusproductsservers-storageserverssparc-enterpriseidc-dce-2012-1612359pdf)

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running Oracle Solaris allows for massive consolidation using Oracle Solaris Zones Oracle VM server for SPARC or a combination of these technologies In addition the security feature inherent in Oracle Solaris means that secure multi-tenant configurations can easily be realized with end-to-end encryption of network traffic and data Oracle Solaris also provides the ability to monitor and control processor resources and network bandwidth in virtualized environments helping to ensure balanced operation and adherence to service level agreements

As an example of effective consolidation Mazda Motor Corporation has modernized and consolidated its Mazda Digital Innovation (MDI) system on Oracle SPARC T4-4 and Oracle SPARC T4-2 servers running Oracle Solaris Since both the old and the new servers were running Oracle Solaris the migration to the new SPARC T4 servers took only two days to complete With SPARC T4 servers running Oracle Solaris Mazda has achieved

bull 50 percent faster PDM tool response time at peak hours with as many as 3500 users and 1 million transactions during peak hours

bull 40 percent reduction in monthly operational costs

bull 75 percent lower monthly server power consumption

bull 90 percent reduction in its data-center footprint (12 racks down to one)

Streamlining IT with a Cloud-Ready Platform

The foundation of a mission-critical cloud must combine agility flexibility and security with scale and performance Oracle Solaris possesses all of the attributes required to power the most demanding enterprise clouds Built-in virtualization ease of deployment for applications and workload mobility are base-line requirements More importantly control of these capabilities must be achieved across large pools of compute and storage resources For compliance purposes ease of monitoring and reporting are likewise necessary These features are available in Oracle Solaris 111 combined with the benefits of centralized monitoring via the Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall appliance

There are at least two important dimensions to managing a cloud environment that must be considered When managing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) a system administrator will need to be concerned with the physical hardware through managing server configurations performing bare-metal OS installations conducting backups and other typical data center operations Above that level the administrative role entails efficient management of virtualized services and may even extend to consumers engaging in self-provisioning activities Effective cloud solutions must take these different roles into account

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ldquoThe operating system in a cloud environment must meet a different set of requirements than traditional legacy OS deployments in the areas of scalability multi-tenancy security virtualization new storage and networking architectures Support for cloud middleware languages development frameworks and runtimes As the cloud market begins to mature from lower-tier applications to enterprise cloud computing Oracle Solaris traditional strengths in security scalability and fault mitigation can bring these capabilities to the cloudrdquo2

As organizations look to move from a traditional data center model to a cloud-based model SPARC platforms running Oracle Solaris can greatly simplify the transition As new technology has emerged the continued Oracle Solaris binary compatibility of the SPARC processor itself has remained paramount allowing binary compatibility from generation to generation of Oracle Solaris For example when considering a private cloud deployment binary compatibility greatly simplifies the transition from a traditional data center model to an actual cloud To save costs and complexity even legacy environments can be encapsulated for deployment in a cloud environment and having a common OS means there is no learning curve in moving to the new deployment model In fact all of the built-in OS capabilities contribute directly to an Oracle Solaris based cloud from the native virtualization of CPU and network features to accelerated encryption to simple risk-free lifecycle management

At the same time the diverse operational management requirements of cloud computing demand a comprehensive management approach Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c is Oraclersquos premiere cloud management solution It is the industryrsquos first complete solution including self-service provisioning balanced against centralized and policy-based resource management integrated chargeback and capacity planning Oracle Enterprise Manager offers complete visibility of the physical and virtual environments from applications to disk Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center also plays a key role in facilitating the basics of cloud operation by providing detailed system management power monitoring and software maintenance functions across large populations of servers all from a single console

Access to the full suite of Oracle software plus a growing portfolio of ISV applications ensures that Oracle Solaris is perfectly suited to host the entire spectrum of service models be it IaaS Software as a Service (SaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS) This competence completeness and flexibility eases the burden on in-house developers and allows for quicker time to market with complex solutions Oracle Solaris also boasts a powerful set of development tools that are optimized to ensure the best performance for custom software

2 Source IDC White Paper Oracle Delivers Unique Value with Oracle Solaris httpwwworaclecomuscorporateanalystreportsindustriesidc-solaris-1012-1866805pdf

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As a compelling example Australian Telco provider AAPT is offering ldquoSolaris as a Servicerdquo leveraging the secure multi-tenancy capabilities of the OS AAPT runs a combined private cloud (for internal consumption) on Oracle Solaris 11 and offers this service to external customers as well with a choice of hardware spanning Oraclersquos SPARC T-Series servers and Oracle SPARC M-Series servers as well as Oraclersquos x86-based servers The company achieves very high consolidation ratios (over 401) by taking advantage of low-overhead Oracle Solaris Zones for virtualization along with integrated network virtualization and network services

The Best Platform for Oracle Deployments

Oracle software and hardware products are engineered tested packaged certified deployed supported and upgraded together This unique ability provides an advantage no other vendor can offermdashcomplete integration and optimization across the entire technology stack As a result Oracle Solaris running on Oraclersquos SPARC technology is simply the best platform for Oracle database application and middleware products With software and hardware designed and tested to work together management gets dramatically easier as well Performance and availability increase at the same time that costs and deployment times decrease

Oracle runs its own business on Oracle Solaris and SPARC systems At the time of the Sun acquisition the Oracle mission critical global single instance database and ERP environment was consolidated onto two Sun SPARC M9000 servers to support the additional 30000 employees This large migration was accomplished in under eight weeks with only 12 people

This entire infrastructure was upgraded in December 2012 to run on SPARC SuperCluster (Figure 4) to provide still greater performance and significant cost savings The new architecture incorporates Oracle E-Business Suite 12i and a 23 TB database to support 260000 users and over one million customer accounts This most recent migration was completed in a matter of weeks and overall the new installation is twice as fast as the previous combination of M9000 and EMC storage Transaction processing throughput has increased over seven-fold IO response times have shortened and the system still has plenty of capacity headroom to meet increasing demand

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Figure 4 Oracle runs on Oraclersquos SPARC SuperCluster and Oracle E-Business Suite supporting 260000 users and over one million customer accounts

The combination of Oracle Solaris and Oracle SPARC servers provides an unequaled range of benefits including

bull Extreme performance Oraclersquos SPARC servers continue to set world records for dozens of performance benchmarks consistently beating alternative systems

bull Mission-critical availability Near-zero downtime Oracle Solaris binary compatibility guarantee for over 15 years and simplified systems management provide unmatched reliability and availability at a low total cost of ownership

bull Unmatched security SPARC servers feature on-chip cryptographic acceleration that combines with the advanced security capabilities of Oracle Solaris

bull No-cost virtualization With virtualization capabilities built into every server and Oracle Solaris at no additional cost creating an efficient and flexible data center has never been simpler or more affordable

bull Total integration Oraclersquos unique ability to integrate and optimize across the IT stack offers breakthrough levels of performance efficiency and scalability Oraclersquos technical roadmap demonstrates that Oraclersquos SPARC systems and Oracle Solaris will continue to deliver strong integration with Oraclersquos software to optimize IT for the most demanding workloads

bull Technical superiority Oracle Solaris and SPARC technology have been developed together for over 25 years to help manage complex computing environments Since acquiring Sun Oracle has continued to make significant investments in and innovations to these important technologies

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Beyond these general advantages having control of the entire hardware and software stack also allows Oracle to make key technology improvements to bring performance and other benefits directly to Oracle databases middleware and applications These kinds of enhancements would be impossible on other platforms given the level of integration and co-engineering that is required Several examples of these kinds of improvements are listed below

bull Optimized shared memory (OSM) Designed in conjunction with the Oracle Database team optimized shared memory (OSM) is a new shared memory interface in Oracle Solaris 11 that permits dynamic resizing of the Oracle Database SGA without a reboot as well as two-fold faster database instance startup

bull DTrace for IO outlier detection The Oracle Database can tap into Oracle Solaris DTrace functionality to monitor database IO performance and quickly resolve IO issues

bull New virtual memory subsystem Predictive memory page allocation is a key feature of the new virtual memory system in Oracle Solaris 111 actively adapting resources to database and application memory needs

bull Centralized audit reporting Integration with the Database Firewall and Audit Vault appliance helps simplify compliance reporting for Oracle Solaris and Oracle Database to help data center personnel meet compliance requirements and more easily detecting and analyzing security threats

bull Hardware-based cryptography Hardware based cryptographic acceleration in SPARC CPUs a ldquoSoftware in Siliconrdquo feature enables pervasive use of encryption to reduce risk and ensure faster operation of Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) This same combination of CPU and OS functionality offers similar acceleration of Java security operations

Mission-Critical Availability

All of Oraclersquos new SPARC T-Series and SPARC M-series platforms boast impressive enterprise-class capabilities in terms of reliability availability and serviceability (RAS) Hardware fault management and reporting is handled through close collaboration between embedded service processors and Oracle Solaris Diagnostic agents in software can identify failed or failing components and take remedial action to keep the system running At the same time the integrated Automated Service Request (ASR) facility in Oracle Solaris can proactively submit a problem report to My Oracle Support (MOS) without operator intervention to ensure rapid service response Oracle SPARC M-Series servers can include redundant pairs of service processors and clock boards to offer full hardware redundancy for the highest levels of uptime and serviceability Oracle SPARC M-Series servers can be divided into electrically isolated Physical Domains (PDOMs) allowing up to four completely separate OS environments to be installed in a single server

Oracle Solaris provides further software resiliency for applications The Oracle Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF) feature treats a set of interdependent processes as a service In the event any part of the service should fail SMF will restart the service by bringing the appropriate components back online in the correct order Availability is also enhanced by Oraclersquos software maintenance tools

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which are designed for fast risk-free updates As a result of these innovations unplanned downtime is rare and planned downtime is minimized

Continuity of mission-critical services is required even in the event of system or software failure To address this need Oracle Solaris Cluster provides high availability ranging from a simple two-node failover configuration to full disaster recovery across data centers spanning multiple geographic locations (Figure 5)

Figure 6 Oracle Solaris Cluster provides high availability and multi-clustermulti-site disaster recovery for critical applications

Oracle Solaris Cluster is the only high availability solution that integrates with Oracle Solaris at the kernel level providing yet another example of Oraclersquos tightly integrated co-engineering practices This approach yields near instant failure detection of the entire Oracle stack including applications middleware operating system servers storage and network interconnects Any failure executes a policy-based application-specific recovery and reconfiguration enabled through redundant infrastructure and intelligent software algorithms

Oracle Solaris Cluster seamlessly integrates high availability with virtualization for mission-critical cloud infrastructure By supporting both Oracle Solaris Zones and Oracle VM Server for SPARC Oracle Solaris Cluster is configurable to offer protection at the application zone or VM levelmdashwith policy-based recovery behavior and reliable management of multi-tier dependencies Administrative isolation for multi-tenant environments is also provided offering ease of operation in conjunction with Oracle Enterprise Manager

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Summary

Oracle is redefining data center economics with the worldrsquos fastest processor and mission critical cloud capabilities Oracle Solaris and Oraclersquos SPARC servers deliver robust infrastructure and generation-to-generation compatibility for the most complex and demanding enterprise applications Oracle continues to invest in this key technology combination introducing new SPARC processors new SPARC systems and innovation in the first cloud-ready operating system Oracle Solaris

Oracle SPARC T5 systems Oracle SPARC M5 systems the Oracle Engineered Systems and Oracle Optimized Solutions that deploy them now deliver even greater performance and capacity than their accomplished predecessors Together these systems satisfy the non-stop need for additional scale throughput and security Consolidation of existing applications onto the new Oracle Solaris SPARC based platforms can yield substantial operating cost reduction as well

Organizations can continue to rely on Oracle Solaris and SPARC because of Oraclersquos ongoing investment and co-engineering across the entire Oracle software portfolio bringing new functionality better performance and lower cost to bear on the increasing demands and opportunities of the marketplacemdashwhile accommodating the very real constraints of the data center To begin an evaluation of the latest that Oracle has to offer or to put Oracle Solaris and SPARC technology to work please contact your local Oracle Sales Representative

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For More Information

For more information on Oracle Solaris and Oraclersquos SPARC servers please see these references

REFERENCES FOR MORE INFORMATION

WEB SITES

Oracle Solaris httpwwworaclecomsolaris

Oracle SPARC Servers httpwwworaclecomsparc

Performance Benchmarks httpwwworaclecombenchmark

Oracle Optimized Solutions httporaclecomoptimizedsolutions

Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure on SPARC httpwwworaclecomtechnetworkserver-storagehardware-solutionso12-

043-cloud-sparc-1659149pdf

Oracle SPARC SuperCluster httpwwworaclecomsupercluster

Oracle Consulting Services httpwwworaclecomusindustriesprofessional-services038040htm

Oracle Technolgy Network Solaris 11 httpwwworaclecomtechnetworkserver-

storagesolaris11overviewindexhtml

Oracle Solaris 11 and Oracle SPARC Servers httpwwworaclecomtechnetworkserver-

storagesolaris11technologiessparc-optimization-1873878html

Oracle Technology Network httpwwworaclecomtechnetworkindexhtml

(1) SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjEnterprise are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Results from wwwspecorg as of 03262013 SPARC T5-8 5742217 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS IBM Power 780 1664634 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPSSPARC T5-8 server (SPARC T5-8 server base package 8x SPARC T5 16-core processors 128x16GB-1066 DIMMS 2x600GB 10K RPM 25rdquo SAS-2 HDD 4x power cables list price $268742 IBM Power 780 (IBM Power 7809179 Model MHB 8x386GHz 8-core 64xone processor activation 4xCEC Enclosure with IBM Bezel IO backplane and system midplane16x 032GB DDR3 memory (4x8GB) DIMMS-1066MHz Power7 CoD Memory 12x Activation of 1 GB DDR3 Power7 Memory 5x activation of 100GB DDR3 Power7 Memory 1x DiskMedia Backplane 2x 1468GB SAS 15K RPM 25rdquo HDD (AIXLinux only) 4x AC power supply 1725W) list price $992023 Source Oracle price list and IBMcom collected 03252013 costperformance ratio = 127 = (9920231664634)(2687425742217)

(2) Source Transaction Processing Performance Council wwwtpcorg as of 32613 SPARC T5-8 (81281024) with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition with Partitioning 8552523 tpmC $055 USDtpmC available 9252013 3 node IBM Power 780 Server 9179-MHB Power 7 386 GHz (864256) with IBM DB2 97 10366254 tpmC $138tpmC available 101310 price performance ratio = 25 = (13855)

(3) SPARC T5-8 $268742 8 x 36 GHz T5 CPU 2024 GB memory IBM Power 780 $1908530 8 x 392 GHz 64 core POWER7 CPU 2024 GB memory price advantage 7x = ($1908530 $268742)

(4) SPARC M5-32 (SPARC M5-32 Server base package 32xM5 6-core processors 64x16GB-1066 DIMMS 6x600GB RPM 25rdquo SAS-2 HDD 6x Power Cables) List Price $1045962 IBM Power 795 (IBM Power 795 Primary System Rack comprising of CEC enclosure and BPA 4x40GHz 32-core 2x 64 Processor Core activation for Power 7 2x 1024 (8x(4x32GB)) DDR3 DIMMS-1066MHz 48x Activation of 1GB DDR3 Power7 Memory 20x Activation of 100GB DDR3 Power7 Memory 1x 12X IO 26 SFF drive bays 2x 600GB SAS 10K RPM HDD 1x DVDTape SAS External Storage Unit 1x Rack-mounted HW Mgt Console 1x Power Cable Group BPD1 to first Processor Node 1x Power Cable Group BPD1 to second Processor Node 1x Power Cable Group BPD1 to third Processor Node 1x Power Cable Group BPD1 to fourth Processor Node 6x Bulk Power Regulator 2x Bulk Power Distribution Assembly List price of $2719336 Source ibmcom collected 03252013

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Oracle Solaris and SPARC Technology Redefining Data Center Economics April 2013

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Introduction 1

Data Center Innovation Redefining Data Center Economics 3

Oracle Solaris 3

Oracle SPARC Solutions to Fit Every Need 4

The Extensive Oracle Solaris Ecosystem 6

Reducing Cost Through Consolidation 6

Built-in Virtualization 7

Performance Scalability and Flexibility for Massive Consolidation 7

Streamlining IT with a Cloud-Ready Platform 8

The Best Platform for Oracle Deployments 10

Mission-Critical Availability 12

Summary 14

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