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Drive Optimal Efficiency and Reduce Cost with

Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers
Nickie Chan
Solutions Architect
APAC Systems, Oracle
2.0
The following is intended to outline our general
product direction. It is intended for information
purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any
contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any
material, code, or functionality, and should not be
relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any
features or functionality described for Oracle’s
products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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Oracle + Sun For SPARC Servers:
Complete, Open, Integrated Systems

• Open and standards-based

• Optimized, integrated and extensible
• Better performance, reliability, security
• Shorter deployment times
• Easier to manage and upgrade
• Lower cost of ownership
• Reduced change management risk
• Integrated support

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 Technical Benefits of Server Refresh
More for Less!

• Improved performance and scaling

• Improved virtualization
• Improved availability
• Reduced Complexity
• More energy-efficient systems
• Reduced foot print
• Simplified system management

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 Business Benefits of Server Refresh
More for Less!
• Improved performance and scaling
• Capacity for new business-critical applications
• Reduced software licensing costs
• Improved virtualization
• Better use of resources lowering acquisition costs
• Improved availability
• Reduced planned and un-planned downtime
• More energy-efficient systems
• Reduce power and cooling costs
• More performance per “floor tile”
• Reduced datacenter real estate costs
• Simplified system management
• Reduce management costs and increase flexibility

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Server Refresh and Consolidation
Change Deployment Topology
• Keep different workloads separate
• Mix like workloads
• One server with capability for workload separation –
domain, container and virtualization

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 SPARC Enterprise Servers
Over 20 Years Of Mission Critical Computing
• Optimized application performance
• Reliability, availability, serviceability, and security
• Scalable up to 256 cores, 4TB RAM
• Consolidation and virtualization
M9000
M8000
M5000
M4000
M3000

T3-4/ T5440
T3-2/T5240
T3-1/T5220

T3-1B T5120
T63x0

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 Server Refresh Path
Upgrade to Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers
SPARC
Sun Fire IBM HP Enterprise
V490 eServer p5 550 Integrity rx4640-8 M4000/T5x20
M4000/T3-1
eServer p5 550Q HP 9000 rp4410-4

V890 eServer P5 560Q HP 9000 rp4440-8 M4000/T3-2

HP 9000 rp7420-16 /T3-4
M5000/T5x40
E2900
Integrity rx7620-16
E4900 Integrity rx7640
E6900 eServer P5 570 Integrity rx8620-32 M8000
Integrity rx8640
HP 9000 rp8420-32
Integrity Superdome 16
HP 9000 Superdome 16

E20K eServer p5 590 Integrity Superdome 32 M9000/32

HP 9000 Superdome 32

E25K eServer p5 595 Integrity Superdome 64 M9000/64

HP 9000 Superdome 64

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 High Performance requires….

• Fast I/O
• Move data into the server from storage and the network
• Fast internal interconnect
• Move data inside the server to feed the processors
• With more processors this becomes more important
• Fast and dense memory
• Fast processors
• Frequency, cache, cores, threads, pipeline

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 New SPARC Enterprise Servers Have…

• When compared to older US-II, US-III, US-IV/IV:

• Faster processors
• Faster memory
• More memory (up to 4TB)
• Faster I/O (PCIe)
• More I/O slots (up to 288)
• Improved platform management (SNMP, Sun MC, Ops Center)
• Which means:
• Faster application performance
• Greater capacity
• Easter Integration

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 SPARC World Record Benchmark
Meeting Consolidation Capacity Requirement
• TPC-H: M9000 20% faster than IBM Power 565

•TPC-H:
• TPC-CM9000
: SPARC20% faster
T3 World than IBM Power 565
Record
• 3x more OLTP throughput than IBM Power 7
• 27% better price/performance
• 3.2x faster response time

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SPARC World Record Benchmarks
Meeting Consolidation Capacity Requirements
• World Record 1 Application Server SPECjEnterprise
SPARC T3-4 & Oracle 11g beat IBM Power7

Application Tier DB Tier JOPS@standard Database

SPARC T3-4 (64 core) SPARC T3-2 9,456.28 Oracle11g
IBM p750 (32 core) IBM PS702 7,172.93 DB2 9.7
• SPARC T3-1JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on “Day-in-Life”
4,200 users on T3-1 application server with fast response time
5% faster than IBM Power 750 i7.1 (1x 3.55GHz Power7)
2.1x better computational density than the IBM 750

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 High Availability
Meeting Consolidation RAS Requirements
Reliability
• System-level ECC
• Memory Extended ECC
• Cooler operating temperatures
• Instruction-level retry
• Memory Mirroring
• Reduced components
• Robust Oracle Solaris OS
• Oracle Solaris Cluster
• Oracle RAC
• Oracle Solaris Containers
• Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Software
*M8000/M9000
Serviceability
• Reduce downtime
• Fault-isolation (domains, Oracle VM
Server for SPARC)
• Dynamic reconfiguration
Highest • Hot-swap of fans and power
• Hot-swap of CPU’s and RAM*
Availability • Hot-swap of I/O*
• 7x24x365 app availability
• Up to 5 9’s uptime
• Online upgrades
• Fault-management architecture
• Predictive-self healing
• OEM Ops Center
• T-Series ILOM & M-Series XSCF
Monitor & Manage
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 RAS Improvements
Increasing Availability

• Processor improvements
• Instruction-level retry
• Cache degradation
• Register protection
• Memory
• Extended ECC (chipkill)
• Memory mirroring
• System
• 65% reduction in components
• Various Predictive-self Healing improvements
• Redundant hot-swappable internal boot disks

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 Sun SPARC Virtualization
Hard Partitions SPARC Hypervisors Solaris Containers

M-Series T-Series All Sun Systems

Dynamic Domains Oracle VM SPARC Solaris Containers
Complete Isolation: (Logical Domains) (Zones + SRM)
Resources Granular Solaris Trusted Extensions
Security Dynamic Solaris 8 and 9 Containers
Faults Low-overhead
Service

Multiple OSes Single OS

Included at Included at Included at

No Cost! No Cost! No Cost!

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 Virtualization Improvements
SPARC Enterprise vs Older SPARC

• Oracle VM SPARC (LDOMs)

• Hypervisor-based virtualization
• Available on T-Series
• Single-processor granularity for dynamic domains
• Greater flexibility for creating fault-isolated domains
• Available on M-Series

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 What About My Solaris 8 and 9 Apps?

• Solaris Binary Compatibility Guarantee

• Sun legal guarantee that Solaris 7, 8, 9 apps will run on S10
• Solaris 8 and 9 Containers
• Create Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 environments on Solaris 10
• Run Solaris 8 and 9 applications unchanged
• Protect legacy software investments

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 Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Containers
Consolidate Legacy Applications

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center

Solaris 8 Solaris 9
Container Container

Solaris 8 Solaris 9

Solaris 10

• Rapid conversion from older environments

• Simplifies move to newer, more efficient SPARC systems
• Lower power/cooling/space/support costs
• Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) consolidation

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Brad Forrester
Systems Operations Manager
Siteworx, Inc.

“We estimate that Solaris Containers

have been able to give us the
equivalent memory and processing
power of ten virtual servers on every
physical server. That’s resulted in an
80% reduction in space requirements
and 65% savings in energy costs.”

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 Brown-Forman
SPARC Enterprise Refresh Customer Reference

Products
 Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server, Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000
Server, Solaris 10 Operating System
Results
 Final consolidation of 29 servers into 9
 A reduction in power and cooling
 Saved DB2 data using Solaris 9 Container technology
 Creates virtualized servers for on-demand projects and month-end batch
processes

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 Manageability Improvements
Simplify and Reduce the Cost of Systems Management

• Reduce the number of management applications

• Sun Fire had 5 management apps
• M-Series has one (XSCF)
• T-Series has one (ILOM)
• ILOM used by Oracle’s Sun x86 servers
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
• Manage many servers
• Supports T-Series, M-Series and Sun x86 servers

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Comprehensive Full-Stack Management
Application to Disk

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 Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
Overview
• Most comprehensive Systems
Management solution for physical &
virtual systems
• Centralized end-to-end
management Virtual Machines
(Solaris Zones & Logical Domains)
• Combines discover, provision, update,
monitor and manage
• Extends to heterogeneous server Underlying hardware
(x86 and SPARC-based servers)
environments
• e.g., patching Linux & Windows

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 Operational Efficiency
Proof Point: Study Of Reduced Labor With Ops Center
Without Ops With Ops
Center* Center*
Identify 100 assets on the network Days Minutes

Compare inventory for 100 systems against Hours Minutes

baseline
Obtain software & patches and validate PKG/PGM Days < 24 hrs.
installation
Identify patches required for 100+ servers and Hours 15 min.
impact on system
Deploy O.S. to powered off 100 baremetal servers Days Hours

Apply security fix to 100 servers 1 Day 20 min.

Identify, validate, and deploy iLOM firmware on 100 Days Hours

servers
* Results based on an actual study with a large accounting firm customer

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 Energy Efficiency Improvements
More Compute Capacity per Watt

• Multi-core, multi-threaded processors

• More compute power with no power increase
• Improved virtualization or better system utilization
• Get more out of each server
• More efficient power supplies
• More performance per watt

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 Migrate to Energy Efficient Systems
Sun’s Amersfoort Datacenter Consolidation: 1-for-1 Replacements

Rack Utilization Power Utillization Cooling Utilization

88% 74% 75%

82 Savings Savings Savings
partially
full
RU cabinets kW BTU

Old New Old New Old New

Servers Servers Servers Servers Servers Servers

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 Consolidation and Server Refresh
SPARC Enterprise Servers for Consolidation

• Consolidate servers instead of 1:1 replacement

• Improve system utilization
• Improve business flexibility
• Increase availability

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 Compressing Your Data Center
Same Performance at 1/2 the Space and Power

7x IBM p5 570 Servers Sun SPARC

Enterprise
M9000 Server

POWER5+ Processors SPARC64-VII Processors

224RU Height 42RU 80%less!

29,000 Watts Power 6,000 Watts 60%less!

4370kg Weight 940kg 78% less!

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 Compressing Your Data Center
2x Performance at ½ the Space and Power

Sun Fire V445 Server Sun SPARC Enterprise

M3000 Server

4 Cores 4 Cores

4RU Height 2RU 50%less!

1260 Watts Power 470 Watts 62%less!

77 DB Noise Level 44DB 42%less!

37kg Weight 25kg 33% less!

Oracle Sun M-Values used for the Performance Comparisons 30

 Compressing Your Data Center
Same Performance at 1/10th the Space and Power
6 x Sun Fire v880 Servers
Sun SPARC EnterpriseT3-2 Server

UltraSPARC-III Processors SPARC T3 Processors

240RU Height 3RU 98%less!

13,200 Watts Power 2,000 Watts 85%less!

48 Processors Procs 2 Processors 95%less!

780kg Weight 36kg 95% less!

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Performance Gains with New Servers
SPARC Enterprise
Sun Fire Servers Servers
v440 12x Faster T3-1

6x Faster
v480 M4000

7x Faster
M5000
v880 23x Faster
T3-4

F15K 8x Faster M9000

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 Technology Case Study: Clifford Chance
SPARC Enterprise Refresh Customer Reference

Products
 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220, M9000, M5000 servers and
Solaris 10 Operating System
Results
Products
2x faster performance of key business application
and
 Consolidate 10 global datacenters to 4 datacenters
 Services
90% hardware reduction
 Increase server utilization from 15-25% to 85%
 Payback investment in 2 years
 Reduced datacenter floor space by 50%

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 Abacus
M-Series Refresh Customer Reference
Products
 Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 Server, Sun SPARC Enterprise
M5000 Server, Solaris 10 Operating System
Results
 Migrated existing software using Solaris Container technology
 Refreshed older Sun Fire 6800 and E6900 cabinets to 10 RU
 Reduced power and cooling.
 Utilizing Dynamic Domains on the M-Series servers to create
hard partitions and virtualized servers within each domain using
Solaris Containers
 Increased data analysis job speed by 50%

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 Summary

• Server Consolidation enables the Efficient

Datacenter
• Consolidation Customer Benefits:
• Increased system utilization
• Lower TCO
• Increased compute capacity
• Faster time to deployment
• Oracle Sun servers are ideal consolidation platforms
• High RAS
• High capacity
• Virtualization

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 For More Information.....

• Find out more about Oracle's Virtualization Capabilities

• http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/index.html

• Find out more about all of Oracle's Servers

• http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/index.html

• Find out more about Oracle's Solaris operating system

• http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/index.html

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