Sun Fire X4270 M3 SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode) Two-Tier Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark

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Oracle's Sun Fire X4270 M3 server achieved 8,320 SAP SD Benchmark users running SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 with unicode software using Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Solaris 10.

  • The Sun Fire X4270 M3 server using Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Solaris 10 beat both IBM Flex System x240 and IBM System x3650 M4 server running DB2 9.7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition.

  • The Sun Fire X4270 M3 server running Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Solaris 10 beat the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 server using SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition by 6%.

  • The Sun Fire X4270 M3 server using Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Solaris 10 beat Cisco UCS C240 M3 server running SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition by 9%.

  • The Sun Fire X4270 M3 server running Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Solaris 10 beat the Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S7 server using SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition by 10%.

Performance Landscape

SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance Table (in decreasing performance order).

SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Results
(benchmark version from January 2009 to April 2012)

System OS
Database
Users SAP
ERP/ECC
Release
SAPS SAPS/
Proc
Date
Sun Fire X4270 M3
2xIntel Xeon E5-2690 @2.90GHz
128 GB
Oracle Solaris 10
Oracle Database 11g
8,320 2009
6.0 EP4
(Unicode)
45,570 22,785 10-Apr-12
IBM Flex System x240
2xIntel Xeon E5-2690 @2.90GHz
128 GB
Windows Server 2008 R2 EE
DB2 9.7
7,960 2009
6.0 EP4
(Unicode)
43,520 21,760 11-Apr-12
HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8
2xIntel Xeon E5-2690 @2.90GHz
128 GB
Windows Server 2008 R2 EE
SQL Server 2008
7,865 2009
6.0 EP4
(Unicode)
42,920 21,460 29-Mar-12
IBM System x3650 M4
2xIntel Xeon E5-2690 @2.90GHz
128 GB
Windows Server 2008 R2 EE
DB2 9.7
7,855 2009
6.0 EP4
(Unicode)
42,880 21,440 06-Mar-12
Cisco UCS C240 M3
2xIntel Xeon E5-2690 @2.90GHz
128 GB
Windows Server 2008 R2 DE
SQL Server 2008
7,635 2009
6.0 EP4
(Unicode)
41,800 20,900 06-Mar-12
Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S7
2xIntel Xeon E5-2690 @2.90GHz
128 GB
Windows Server 2008 R2 EE
SQL Server 2008
7,570 2009
6.0 EP4
(Unicode)
41,320 20,660 06-Mar-12

Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website http://www.sap.com/benchmark.

Configuration and Results Summary

Hardware Configuration:

Sun Fire X4270 M3
2 x 2.90 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2690 processors
128 GB memory
Sun StorageTek 6540 with 4 * 16 * 300GB 15Krpm 4Gb FC-AL

Software Configuration:

Oracle Solaris 10
Oracle Database 11g
SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode)

Certified Results (published by SAP):

Number of benchmark users:
8,320
Average dialog response time:
0.95 seconds
Throughput:

Fully processed order line:
911,330

Dialog steps/hour:
2,734,000

SAPS:
45,570
SAP Certification:
2012014

Benchmark Description

The SAP Standard Application SD (Sales and Distribution) Benchmark is a two-tier ERP business test that is indicative of full business workloads of complete order processing and invoice processing, and demonstrates the ability to run both the application and database software on a single system. The SAP Standard Application SD Benchmark represents the critical tasks performed in real-world ERP business environments.

SAP is one of the premier world-wide ERP application providers, and maintains a suite of benchmark tests to demonstrate the performance of competitive systems on the various SAP products.

See Also

Disclosure Statement

Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP SD benchmark based on SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode) application benchmark as of 04/11/12: Sun Fire X4270 M3 (2 processors, 16 cores, 32 threads) 8,320 SAP SD Users, 2 x 2.90 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2690, 128 GB memory, Oracle 11g, Solaris 10, Cert# 2012014. IBM Flex System x240 (2 processors, 16 cores, 32 threads) 7,960 SAP SD Users, 2 x 2.90 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2690, 128 GB memory, DB2 9.7, Windows Server 2008 R2 EE, Cert# 2012016. IBM System x3650 M4 (2 processors, 16 cores, 32 threads) 7,855 SAP SD Users, 2 x 2.90 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2690, 128 GB memory, DB2 9.7, Windows Server 2008 R2 EE, Cert# 2012010. Cisco UCS C240 M3 (2 processors, 16 cores, 32 threads) 7,635 SAP SD Users, 2 x 2.90 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2690, 128 GB memory, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 DE, Cert# 2012011. Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S7 (2 processors, 16 cores, 32 threads) 7,570 SAP SD Users, 2 x 2.90 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2690, 128 GB memory, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 EE, Cert# 2012008. HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 (2 processors, 16 cores, 32 threads) 7,865 SAP SD Users, 2 x 2.90 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2690, 128 GB memory, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 EE, Cert# 2012012.

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