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 
        SAPERP/ECCRelease 
        SAPS 
        SAPS/Proc 
        Date 
       
       
        Sun Fire X4270 M3
2xIntel Xeon E5-2690 @2.90GHz 128 GB 
        Oracle Solaris 10
Oracle Database 11g 
        8,320 
        20096.0 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 
        20096.0 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 
        20096.0 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 
        20096.0 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 
        20096.0 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 
        20096.0 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 
   
    
        SAP Benchmark Website 
        
     
     Sun Fire X4270 M3 Server  oracle.com  OTN 
    
Oracle Solaris   
oracle.com 
OTN   
    
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition   
oracle.com 
OTN   
   
   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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