Oracle Adding SuperCluster T5-8

Oracle Corp. extends its hardware and software engineered together with the SuperCluster T5-8, its fastest engineered system.

Based on a fast database server, fast database storage, and the world’s fastest microprocessor, it delivers performance and 10x better price performance than a comparable IBM Power7+-based solution(1).

It delivers performance by co-engineering SPARC T5-8 servers and Oracle Exastorage Server hardware with Oracle database, middleware and systems software to provide:

• Up to 10x faster database and application performance than a build-your-own IT approach.
• 2.5x better performance than the previous generation SuperCluster.

Exadata Storage Expansion Rack X3-2
              

Versus a build-your-own IT approach, SuperCluster T5-8 helps increase data center efficiency through:

• 5x lower TCO by running Oracle Database and enterprise applications together on a single system
• 5x faster time to value
• 32x faster deployment of database cloud services.

Engineered with no single point of failure, SuperCluster T5-8 enables the HA needed for enterprise-critical databases and applications.

With built-in zero-overhead virtualization and security, it combined with database and infrastructure-as-a-service capabilities, is for consolidation and enterprise private cloud deployments.

Design integrates over 16TB of flash storage along with hundreds of compute cores of the world’s fastest microprocessor and hundreds of terabytes of accelerated database storage(2). The system is coupled with a low-latency fabric and delivered, managed and optimized for database and application performance.

Oracle accelerates application and database cloud service deployments on SuperCluster with Oracle Optimized Solutions for the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, Enterprise Database Cloud, Oracle WebCenter Content and SAP.

Engineered, tested and integrated together, Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 provides technology at every level, and enables customers to avoid the risks associated with build-it-yourself systems.

• New features in Solaris 11 provide capabilities for Oracle Database Administrators and Java Application Architects. Co-engineered with Oracle software and hardware, Solaris delivers the high service levels through self healing capabilities and helps meet demanding compliance requirements for enterprise cloud deployments.
• Oracle VM Server for SPARC enables provisioning of databases and applications across a range of performance, capacity and availability attributes to cost effectively manage SLAs. Combining the provisioning capabilities of Solaris 11 with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center makes it possible to rapidly configure, deploy, monitor and manage sophisticated and secure agile mission-critical service environments
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c uses a holistic approach to manage SuperCluster and provides lifecycle management from monitoring to management and ongoing maintenance for the entire system.
• Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage 7320 Appliances provide the throughput, performance to power Oracle Database and I/O-intensive enterprise applications, as well as efficiency to help reduce capacity and enable storage consolidation.

"Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 runs Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic up to 10x faster than systems pieced together by costly integration projects," said John Fowler, EVP, systems, Oracle. "The benefits of this virtualized system extend to any application that uses Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic today, without changes, making this the world’s best enterprise mission critical consolidation platform. Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 can be applied with equal ease to problems of tremendous scale, or to transformative consolidation with impressive economics."

Footnotes
(1) Comparison of IBM Power 780 16 chips, 128 cores, 3.72GHz Power 7+ 2TB memory system, DS8870 28.8TB HDD and 6.4TB flash storage, V7000 60TB HDD and 4TB flash storage (total list $6.1M) to comparably performing Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 half rack high performance storage configuration 8 chips, 128 cores, 3.6GHz SPARC T5, 88.8TB HDD storage, 10.6TB lfash storage. ($595K). 10x price/performance advantage
(2) Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 full rack configuration.