Dell Performance

Oracle Database Performance on Sun and Dell Servers Running Solaris

Date : 9/1/2008
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Principled Technologies (PT) compared a typical existing installation with a typical new purchase configuration to analyze what customers might experience if they stay with Solaris™ and Oracle® but migrate from RISC to x86. The goal of the testing was not to achieve maximum performance, but to focus on the performance typical in a real-world scenario.

PT measured the Oracle database performance of the following two servers running Sun’s Solaris OS:
  • Dell™ PowerEdge™ R900 running Oracle 10g R2 Enterprise Edition on Solaris 10
  • Sun Fire™ v440 running Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition on Solaris 9

A common system configuration for an existing Sun™ environment — a three year-old Sun Fire v440 with 32 GB of RAM and all of its disk drive bays full — was compared to a moderate configuration of a new six-core Intel® Xeon® 7400 series-based Dell PowerEdge R900 server with 64 GB of RAM and all of its disk drive bays full. Using the DVD Store Version 2 as a test tool, stress was placed on each configuration, and performance was measured. The Dell PowerEdge R900 running Oracle 10g R2 Enterprise Edition on Solaris 10 achieved 13 times greater performance than the Sun Fire v440 running Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition on Solaris 9.