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Oracle E-Business Suite Performance Benchmarking on Cisco UCS driven by Intel® Xeon™ Processors Greg Blotter Performance and Solutions Engineer Cisco Systems, Inc.

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• Released in 2005 for E-Business Suite version 11.5.10 Modified in 2008 for E-Business Suite version 12.0.4 Modified in 2010 for E-Business Suite version 12.1.2 Modified in 2012 for E-Business Suite version 12.1.3

• Developed on Linux/x86-64. Portable to other platforms.

• Benchmark kit is composed of three components: Online Transactions, Order-to-Cash Batch, Payroll Batch.

• Demonstrates performance and scalability on variety of platforms.

• Provides best practices and validates sizing guidelines.

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Four different data models simulate different-sized enterprise workloads.

Data Model Online Users Order-To-Cash Batch Payroll Batch Small <= 1,000 10,000 Order Lines 5,000 Employees Medium 1,001 – 3,000 50,000 Order Lines 10,000 Employees Large 3,001 – 10,000 100,000 Order Lines 50,000 Employees Extra-Large > 10,000 750,000 Order Lines 250,000 Employees

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• Final results are approved by Oracle and certified by independent auditor (InfoSizing) before publication.

• Published results and detailed benchmark reports are publicly accessible on the Oracle web site.

• All tuning is documented and reproducible.

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For Oracle OpenWorld 2012, Cisco is announcing four new results with the E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark

•  Cisco UCS holds the top four positions.

•  Cisco UCS leads in every category.

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• For E-Business Suite 12.1.2 Cisco UCS beats IBM System p by 19 percent

• For E-Business Suite 12.1.3 Cisco UCS beats Oracle Sun Server by 6 percent

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• For E-Business Suite 12.1.2 Cisco UCS beats IBM System p by 63 percent

• For E-Business Suite 12.1.3 Cisco UCS is first to publish!

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839,865

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6% faster than Sun

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Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server

•  2 × 2.90 GHz Intel® Xeon™ E5 2690 Eight-Core processors with Hyper-Threading enabled (2-processors, 16-cores, 32-threads each with 20 MB of Level 3 cache

•  128 GB Memory

•  2 × 300 GB 15K RPM internal disk drives attached to an integrated LSI Logic Symbios MegaRAID SAS 2004 controller

•  Oracle E-Business Suite R12 •  Oracle11g 11.2.0.3 (64-bit) •  Oracle Linux 5.7 (x86 64-bit)

EMC VNX5300 Storage System

•  Attached to 1 Cisco UCSB-MLOM-40G-01 Virtual Interface Card

•  75 × 536 GB 6Gbps 15K RPM disk drives

•  Database and logs configured using Oracle ASM and RAID 5

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•  You can trust Cisco UCS for your E-Business Suite deployment.

•  Cisco has the expertise to deliver E-Business Suite performance.

•  Cisco is a committed Oracle partner.

•  The Intel® Xeon™ E5 Processor is a performance leader.

Take a closer look at the Cisco Unified Computing System.

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Maintained #2 in N. America (21.9%) and #2 in the US (22.2%)

x86 Blade servers are growing over twice as fast as the overall x86 computing market

Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2 2012, August, 2012, Revenue Share 2 IDC Q1 CY12 Server Forecaster, Based on x86 Blade Revenue

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Maintained #3 worldwide in x86 Blades with 15.2%, just behind IBM’s 15.4%

UCS momentum is fueled by game-changing innovation; Cisco is quickly passing established players1

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•  Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs

•  Cisco UCS Performance http://www.cisco.com/go/ucsatwork

•  Cisco and Oracle Solutions http://www.cisco.com/go/oracle

•  Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark

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