Solaris servers with Sun Enterprise 3500

Added: 12/17/2005

Sun servers under the operation system Solaris are known for their high performance. Consequently, it is not a surprise that the Sun Enterprise 3500 model proved its high position, when it was announced the best server in its class. High results in the official test, TPC-C, are the best proof for this position of the Solaris servers. Combining hardware with efficient software solutions made this purposes possible.

The newest representative of the Solaris servers' family Sun Enterprise 3500 set a new record in this class by the TPC-C (test "C" of the Council for measuring transactions processing performance) test.

This server is mounted with the disk subsystems Sun StorEdge and software Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise. These Solaris servers show a higher performance than the other servers under the Windows NT or Unix operation systems. In this way the Solaris servers won the competition with the Hewlett-Packard K570 by nineteen percent by cost.

This event is a new record for Sun servers, provided by the Sun Microsystems Company. Sun Enterprise 3500 demonstrated a record performance for the processing of online transactions. These Solaris servers use the disk arrays Sun StorEdge A5000 and A1000; this combination presents a better result than the analogues servers from different producers. The Solaris servers process transactions thirty five percent faster than the nearest competitors from the symmetric multiprocessor systems under Windows NT and other Unix RISC computers. The servers with a number of processors from one up to eight took part in the testing competition.

The Solaris servers with the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5 and the BEA Tuxedo software usage achieved the highest performance parameters for this class of servers. This is one more proof for the Solaris servers' efficiency with an affordable buying price.

The production of the new servers of Sun Enterprise 3500-6500 series is a testimony for the Sun Microsystems intentions to provide hardware of the middle class with the best characteristics of performance, scalability and reliability. The announced performance record shows that the Sun Enterprise 3500 server takes a leading position among the eight processor servers. This server won the competition with all the computers of this class that are currently available in the market. Additionally, this server grants the highest level of traditional mainframe functions, such as a dynamic reconfiguring and re-switching to the alternative route. There are no competitors for the Solaris servers in this area either among the Windows NT servers or for the Unix machines.

The modern Windows NT servers reach the top of performance in the eight processor configuration. The eight processor server Sun Enterprise 3500 can be replaced with more powerful servers from the Sun Enterprise family without changing the operation system or software. There is scalability for the 64 processors and 20 terra-bytes of disk space. At the same time, the clusters allow achieving the highest performance in the largest computer systems. The family of the symmetric multi-processor servers Sun guarantees the required performance level without any complicated features, which are usual for the cluster solutions. The Sun solution provides the ability to improve the power by the growth of the calculation abilities with time.

The Solaris servers show an amazing performance due to the Sun and Sybase interaction that has lasted for more than thirteen years. There are some corporative works that permit achieving a high performance and databases scalability on the Sun hardware.

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