Sun X4270 World Record SAP-SD 2-Processor Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 EP 4 (Unicode)
Sun Fire X4270 Server World Record Two Processor performance result on Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark
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World Record 2-processor performance result on the two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 enhancement pack 4 (unicode) standard sales and distribution (SD) benchmark on the Sun Fire X4270 server.
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The Sun Fire X4270 server with two Intel Xeon X5570 processors (8 cores, 16 threads) achieved 3,800 SAP SD Benchmark users running SAP ERP application release 6.0 enhancement pack 4 benchmark with unicode software, using Oracle 10g database and Solaris 10 operating system.
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This benchmark result highlights the optimal performance of SAP ERP on Sun Fire servers running the Solaris OS and the seamless multilingual support available for systems running SAP applications.
- The Sun Fire X4270 server using 2 Intel Xeon X5570 processors, 48 GB memory and the Solaris 10 operating system beat the IBM System 550 server using 4 POWER6 processors, 64 GB memory and the AIX 6.1 operating system.
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The Sun Fire X4270 server using 2 Intel Xeon X5570 processors, 48 GB memory and the Solaris 10 operating system beat the HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server using 2 Intel Xeon X5570 processors, 48 GB memory and the Windows Server 2008 operating system.
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In January 2009, a new version, the Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark, was released. This new release has higher cpu requirements and so yields from 25-50% fewer users compared to the previous Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 (non-unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark. 10-30% of this is due to the extra overhead from the processing of the larger character strings due to Unicode encoding. Refer to SAP Note for more details. Note: username and password for SAP Service Marketplace required.
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Unicode is a computing standard that allows for the representation and manipulation of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Before the Unicode requirement, this benchmark used ASCII characters meaning each was just 1 byte. The new version of the benchmark requires Unicode characters and the Application layer (where ~90% of the cycles in this benchmark are spent) uses a new encoding, UTF-16, which uses 2 bytes to encode most characters (including all ASCII characters) and 4 bytes for some others. This requires computers to do more computation and use more bandwidth and storage for most character strings. Refer to SAP Note for more details. Note: username and password for SAP Service Marketplace required.
Performance Landscape
SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance Table (in decreasing performance order).
SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Results
(New version of the benchmark as of January 2009)
| System | OS Database |
Users | SAP ERP/ECC Release |
SAPS | SAPS/ Proc |
Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Fire X4270 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB |
Solaris 10 Oracle 10g |
3,800 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) |
21,000 | 10,500 | 21-Aug-09 |
| IBM System 550 4xPower6 @5GHz 64 GB |
AIX 6.1 DB2 9.5 |
3,752 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) |
20,520 | 5,130 | 16-Jun-09 |
| Sun Fire X4270 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB |
Solaris 10 Oracle 10g |
3,700 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) |
20,300 | 10,150 | 30-Mar-09 |
| HP ProLiant BL460c G6 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB |
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 |
3,415 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) |
18,670 | 9,335 | 04-Aug-09 |
| Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX/RX 300 S5 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB |
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 |
3,328 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) |
18,170 | 9,085 | 13-May-09 |
| HP ProLiant BL460c G6 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB |
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 |
3,310 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) |
18,070 | 9,035 | 27-Mar-09 |
| HP ProLiant DL380 G6 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB |
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 |
3,300 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) |
18,030 | 9,015 | 27-Mar-09 |
| Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX920 S1 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB |
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 |
3,260 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) |
17,800 | 8,900 | 18-Jun-09 |
| NEC Express5800 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB |
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 |
3,250 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) |
17,750 | 8,875 | 28-Jul-09 |
| HP ProLiant DL380 G6 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB |
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 MaxDB 7.8 |
3,171 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) |
17,380 | 8,690 | 17-Apr-09 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
Results and Configuration Summary
Hardware Configuration:
- One, Sun Fire X4270
- 2 x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon X5570 processors
(2 processors / 8 cores / 16 threads)
48 GB memory
Sun Storage 6780 with 48 x 73GB 15KRPM 4Gb FC-AL and 16 x 146GB 15KRPM 4Gb FC-AL Drives
Software Configuration:
- Solaris 10
SAP ECC Release: 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode)
Oracle 10g
Certified Results:
Performance: 3800 benchmark users
SAP Certification: 2009033
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.
Key Points and Best Practices
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Set up the storage (LSI-OEM) to deliver the needed raw devices directly out of the storage and do not use any software layer in between.
See Also
Benchmark Tags
World-Record, Performance, SAP-SD, Solaris, Oracle, Intel, X64, x86, HP, IBM, Application, DatabaseDisclosure 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 08/21/09:
Sun Fire X4270 (2 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads)
3,800 SAP SD Users, 2x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon x5570,
48 GB memory, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10, Cert# 2009033.
IBM System 550 (4 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads)
3,752 SAP SD Users, 4x 5 GHz Power6,
64 GB memory, DB2 9.5, AIX 6.1, Cert# 2009023.
Sun Fire X4270 (2 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads)
3,700 SAP SD Users, 2x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon x5570,
48 GB memory, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10, Cert# 2009005.
HP ProLiant BL460c G6 (2 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads)
3,415 SAP SD Users, 2x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon x5570,
48 GB memory, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Cert# 2009031.
Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX/RX 300 S5 (2 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads)
3,328 SAP SD Users, 2x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon x5570,
48 GB memory, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Cert# 2009014.
HP ProLiant BL460c G6 (2 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads)
3,310 SAP SD Users, 2x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon x5570,
48 GB memory, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Cert# 2009003.
HP ProLiant DL380 G6 (2 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads)
3,300 SAP SD Users, 2x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon x5570,
48 GB memory, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Cert# 2009004.
Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX920 S1 (2 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads)
3,260 SAP SD Users, 2x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon x5570,
48 GB memory, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Cert# 2009024.
NEC Express5800 (2 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads)
3,250 SAP SD Users, 2x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon x5570,
48 GB memory, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Cert# 2009027.
HP ProLiant DL380 G6 (2 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads)
3,171 SAP SD Users, 2x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon x5570,
48 GB memory, MaxDB 7.8, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Cert# 2009006.
IBM System x3650 M2 (2 Processors, 8 Cores, 16 Threads)
5,100 SAP SD users,2x 2.93 Ghz Intel Xeon X5570, DB2 9.5, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Cert# 2008079.
HP ProLiant DL380 G6 (2 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads)
4,995 SAP SD Users, 2x 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon x5570,
48 GB memory, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Cert# 2008071.
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