Sun's Server and Storage Systems Achieve Record Performance on Massive 33 TB Oracle Database

 Palo Alto 15 Nov 99 Sun Microsystems, announced that the Sun Enterprise 10000 Starfire server and Sun StorEdge A5100 and A5200 fibre channel disk arrays combined with Oracle8i and VERITAS Volume Manager 3.0.2 have achieved record performance on one of the world's largest data warehouse configurations, a massive 33 terabyte Oracle database. The Sun test configuration performed at a record speed of 251,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) in an I/O-intensive online transaction processing (OLTP) environment and achieved throughput of 3 gigabytes per second.

Summary test results showed that the Sun Enterprise 10000 server and Sun StorEdge A5100/A5200 arrays combined with Oracle8i and VERITAS Volume Manager 3.0.2 configuration:

  • Produced record I/O performance with 251,000 IOPS, which is consistent with the 3,000 mainframe MIPS rating of the Sun Enterprise 10000;
  • Delivered record I/O throughput of 3 GB/sec;
  • Simulated real world application environments including complex high-performance data warehouse environments used for e-commerce, web-based transactions, and commercial applications;
  • Demonstrated the uncompromising reliability essential to mission-critical data center applications using RAID 1+0 for data protection;
  • Demonstrated ease of manageability and serviceability on a large scale using VERITAS Volume Manager 3.0.2 to manage 2,880 disk drives;
  • Used Oracle8i to scan a 15 TB table in less than 2.5 hours. Oracle8i also enabled the 15 TB table to be joined with a 1 TB table in less than three hours.

 

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