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Will Oracle Ever Release Sun Servers Based On Westmere EP and Nehalem EX Processors? Yes.

Published June 28, 2010 Real Application Clusters Installation , Solaris 10 Oracle , Sun Fire X4470 , Westmere EP , x4470 , x4470 M2 , Xeon 5600 , Xeon 7500 1 Comment

Oracle has announced the release of several new x86 servers based on the Westmere EP and Nehalem EX processors. This is a really short blog entry, because the website is so loaded with information I haven’t much to add:

Oracle Real Application Clusters Does Not Scale?
I’d like to single out an interesting benchmark. This Oracle Sun x4470 SAP SD benchmark result highlights Real Application Clusters scalability and a result in 6U worth of rack space that beats the recent HP Proliant DL980 G7 result with Microsoft by 15%. The DL980 G7 is an 8U server.

Yes, It Runs IBM DB2, Too.
Lest we forget, people do deploy IBM DB2 on Solaris. To read more follow the link:

Updated Options for Deploying IBM DB2 on Solaris x86-based Servers

Testing Direct Versus Buffered UFS on Solaris 10 with Swingbench.

Published March 3, 2007 direct I/O , I/O Topics , Solaris 10 Oracle Leave a Comment

Padraig O’Sullivan has a good blog entry on Swingbench. Included is the topic of using Swingbench to test direct versus buffed UFS on Solaris 10. Good post—check it out.

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