Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems

The Oracle corporation provided new generation of the Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems systems including rackmount-servers (rack), blade servers and network devices 10 GbE for cluster solutions.

The Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems platform is developed for the customers starting resource-intensive applications of Oracle and other suppliers on the server systems united in group, says Oracle. These systems are delivered with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM and provide the end-to-end virtualized environment creating completely tested and supported solution for the software of Oracle Software including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications. Systems are also certified on compatibility with other operating environments and virtualization platforms for architecture of x86.

The comprehensive product portfolio with architecture h86 from Oracle is designed using program and the hardware of corporation for the purpose of providing complete solutions of category "application-to-disk" ("from applications to disk arrays"). At the same time Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g provides simplification of work with systems due to support and management of all products — from applications to disk arrays — as a single system.

In general the Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems platform offers the optimized opportunities of systems management which reduce operating expenses: the module Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager - provides the single interface of command center for all hardware components (servers, blade servers, storage systems, network infrastructure, supply systems and virtualization); the module Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center - provides the high-scalable, easily integrated management system which provides management of lifecycle of the equipment and process automation; the Oracle Installation Assistant tool - allows to set and configure the blade servers and servers mounted in a rack in read minutes; zero-management blade networking and in-silicon network virtualization technologies - eliminate need for complex network administration for blade-solutions; transparent integration into solutions for management of a data processing center; integration into solutions for management from other suppliers.

The Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems systems in comparison with platforms of the previous generation offer high scalability and performance improvement: the high-scalable 8-processor x86 server Sun Fire managed by the Oracle Solaris operating system provides close to linear scaling of databases and applications; the technology a flash memory accelerates work of databases and applications, exacting to resources.

Besides, the Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems platform provides a considerable gain of operational efficiency that, according to developers, promotes cost reduction on a power supply and cooling, simplifies installation and network infrastructure: so, thanks to increase in energy efficiency almost for 45% in comparison with the systems of the previous generation the service output of the solution based on Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems can be increased without additional load of infrastructure of DPC on energy consumption by a power supply and cooling; the simple end-to-end complete solutions of application-to-disk in deployment covering all necessary range of hardware-software tools and systems - from the standard Oracle VM configurations to Oracle Exadata; the network devices Oracle 10 GbE for cluster solutions simplify network infrastructure and management of networks and also double performance of the Live Migration function which allows to transfer virtual machines between cluster nodes without interruption of workflows.

For system deployment acceleration h86 from Oracle are delivered with preset by Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. They are completely tested and provide full compatibility and support of environments of virtualization for the software of Oracle, including Oracle Database, binding software of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications, says Oracle.

The Sun Fire systems h86 are a part of a complete product portfolio of Oracle for environments of "cloud" calculations which includes program and the hardware.