Why Cisco UCS Drives the Highest Performance for Oracle E-Business Suite Greg Blotter Performance and Solutions Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc. April 2014

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Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark

  Released in 2005 for E-Business Suite version 11.5.10 Modified in 2008 for E-Business Suite version 12.0.4 Modified in 2010 for E-Business Suite version 12.1.2 Modified in 2012 for E-Business Suite version 12.1.3

  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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Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark Configuration Models

Four different configuration models simulate different-sized enterprise workloads.

Model Online Users Order-To-Cash Batch Payroll Batch

Small <= 1,000 10,000 Order Lines 5,000 Employees

Medium 1,001 – 3,000 50,000 Order Lines 10,000 Employees

Large 3,001 – 10,000 100,000 Order Lines 50,000 Employees

Extra-Large > 10,000 250,000 Order Lines 250,000 Employees

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Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark Audit and Publication

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

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

  All tuning is documented and reproducible.

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Cisco UCS is the established leader for the E-Business Suite Payroll Benchmark   1,017,629 employee paychecks processed in an hour.

  Cisco UCS is the first and only platform to break the million paycheck mark for the E-Business Suite Payroll benchmark.

World Record!

Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark Cisco Performance Leadership

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  Cisco UCS launched in 2009.

  This benchmark represents the 8th leadership result published by Cisco for the E-Business Suite Payroll benchmark.

  Since its introduction, Cisco UCS has never trailed in this benchmark. UCS is the established leader for the E-Business Suite Payroll Benchmark

Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark Cisco UCS Dominates the Landscape

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Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark A History of Cisco UCS Leadership

Over 1 Million Employees Per Hour!

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Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server

  Cisco 2 × 2.70 GHz Intel® Xeon™ E5-2697 v2 12-Core processors with Hyper-Threading enabled (2-processors, 24-cores, 48-threads each with 30 MB of Level 3 cache

  128 GB Memory

  2 × 300 GB 15K RPM internal disk drives attached to an integrated LSI Logic Symbios MegaRAID SAS 2004 controller

  Oracle E-Business Suite R12   Oracle11g 11.2.0.3 (64-bit)   Oracle Linux 5.7 (x86 64-bit)

Benchmark Configuration

EMC VNX500 Storage System

  Attached to 1 Cisco UCSB-MLOM-40G-01 Virtual Interface Card

  75 x 536 GB 6Gbps 15K ROM disk drives

  Database and logs configured using Oracle ASM

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  20 year relationship in networking – and now systems

  All of Cisco runs on Oracle except phone and video - Cisco has 1000s of Oracle databases (both RAC and singe instance) - Cisco’s largest Oracle database if over 40TB in size

  First Unified RAC Certification on Cisco UCS

  Joint Engineering Engagements - Developed Unified Fabric RAC Certification Testing - Cisco Validated Designs (CVD), FlexPod, VBlock - TPC-C, Oracle Application Benchmarks

  Committed to solving YOUR business challenges

  Over 4,500 Joint Customers

The Cisco and Oracle Relationship

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Over 4,500 Customers Run Oracle on Cisco UCS

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  Server market shrank 7.7%, yet Cisco UCS grew 34.9%1

  Cisco is quickly passing established players

  UCS momentum is fueled by game-changing innovation

  #2 worldwide in x86 Blades (21.5%)1

  #2 in Americas (31.1%)1

  #2 in North America (32.9%)1

  #2 in the US (33.9%)1

Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2 2013, August 2013, Revenue Share

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Cisco UCS #2 in Only Four Years

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  You can trust Cisco UCS for your E-Business Suite deployment.

  Cisco has the expertise to deliver E-Business Suite performance.

  Cisco is a committed Oracle partner.

  The Intel® Xeon™ E5 Processor is a performance leader.

Take a closer look at the Cisco Unified Computing System.

What This Means for You

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  Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs

  Cisco UCS Performance http://www.cisco.com/go/ucsatwork

  Cisco and Oracle Solutions http://www.cisco.com/go/oracle

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

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