Comments on: Sun Fire T2000 vs. Sun Fire V440

By: Ricky

Ricky — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:15:38 +0000

Aniruddha,

try starting from here

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/real_world_tests.jsp

although a bit outdated.

Regds

By: Jon Emmons

Jon Emmons — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:34:25 +0000

Aniruddha,

Unfortunately I haven’t worked on the T2000 in a while and didn’t have the chance to evaluate 10g on it. You’re right that Sun pushes them as an application server, but the multiple cores and plenty of RAM make them solid for Oracle databases too. I’d love to see how they’d perform in a RAC configuration but unfortunately don’t have the resources or time.

By: Aniruddha

Aniruddha — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:26:58 +0000

Hi Jon,
Have you also tested Oracle 10g on the T1000? I am trying hard on Google to find user experiences. Sun on their website recommends T1000 for web applications and not as a database server but I do not see significant changes in the specs between the T1000 and the entry level T2000 servers. This post is quite old. What’s the status now wrt Oracle performance on these servers? Any new experiences? Unfortunately in India I cannot avail the Try/Buy offer from Sun.

By: Jon Emmons

Jon Emmons — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:43:18 +0000

Scott,

First, in the interest of full disclosure, I am currently working for SunGard Higher Education, although I was not when I originally wrote this article.

I do not know of any institutions who are using T2000s for Banner databases but my opinion is that it should work fine for small to medium schools. Note that this is just my opinion, and not that of SGHE (I’m not typically involved in this type of capacity planning.)

If you were to go with a T2000 you will obviously want to use some type of external disk array for your data. The T2000 drives are limited in capacity (they are the size of laptop drives) but are sufficient as system disks.

Sorry I can’t give you more of a confirmation on this. You may consider putting in a support ticket or polling other schools through one of the client mailing lists.

Best of luck.

By: Scott McNeilly

Scott McNeilly — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:32:27 +0000

We are using the Banner system from SunGard Higher Education with an Oracle database. Has anyone had experience with the Banner Oracle database on a Sun T2000 server? Does it perform satisfactorily? The pricing of the T2000 is attractive, but performance is more important.

By: avinash

avinash — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:48:35 +0000

Hi,

Anybody out there running a sizable ClearCase Multisite
environment on Sun Fire T2000 Servers? I’d like to know the comparision in performance against, say, the v880 or v440.

Please let me know.. thanks in advance !

By: yumianfeilong

yumianfeilong — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:33:22 +0000

T2000 is a throughput based machine. If application has too much serial like a single threaded batch job, then performance will not match traditional architectures and may run longer.Such as export&import&alter table move etc. Would be a little slower on t2000….

By: Lioni

Lioni — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:20:00 +0000

We are looking at using T1000 or T2000’s for the apps tier and maybe the database tier for 11.5.10. Oracle Applications.

I believe Kurt has been having performance issues using 11.5.10 apps with a T2000, did you resolve the issue in the end Kurt? Did the T2000 beat the Sparc iii based servers and what were the server specs?

Any information gratefully received.

By: Jon Emmons

Jon Emmons — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:37:02 +0000

Baburajan,

Since import/export is very read/write intensive I’d say the difference could be the disk. Are you seing lots of i/o wait in top?

By: Baburajan A

Baburajan A — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:46:08 +0000

I have recently set up Oracle on T2000. I am gettign slow performance complaint. Database import (130 GB) takes about 45 hrs on this box. On E3500 server, the same takes about 30 hrs. Could any one help me on tuning this . Thanks a bunch !!