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SPARC T5-2 Achieves JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Benchmark World Records

Brian Whitney
Principal Software Engineer

Oracle produced World Record batch throughput for single system results on Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Day-in-the-Life benchmark using Oracle's SPARC T5-2 server running Oracle Solaris Containers and consolidating JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle WebLogic servers and the Oracle Database 11g Release 2. There are two workloads tested: online plus batch workload and batch-only workload.

Online plus batch workload:

  • The SPARC T5-2 server delivered a result of 12,000 online users at 180 msec average response time while concurrently executing a mix of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne long and short batch processes at 198.5 UBEs/min (Universal Batch Engines per minute).

  • The SPARC T5-2 server online plus batch throughput is 2.7x higher than the IBM Power 770 server, both running 12,000 online users.

  • The SPARC T5-2 server online plus batch throughput is 6x higher per chip than the IBM Power 770 server. The SPARC T5-2 server has 2 chips and the IBM Power 770 has 4 chips, both ran 12,000 online users.

  • The SPARC T5-2 server online plus batch throughput is 3x higher per core than the IBM Power 770 server. Both servers have 32 cores and ran 12,000 online users.

Batch-only workload:

  • The SPARC T5-2 server delivered throughput of 880 UBEs/min while executing the batch-only workload (Long and Short batch processes).

  • The SPARC T5-2 server batch-only throughput is 2.7x faster per chip than the IBM Power 770 server. The SPARC T5-2 server has 2 chips and the IBM Power 770 has 4 chips.

  • The SPARC T5-2 server batch-only throughput is 1.4x higher per core than the IBM Power 770 server. Both servers have 32 cores.

  • The SPARC T5-2 server batch-only throughput is 61% faster than the Cisco multiple system solution.

  • The SPARC T5-2 server batch-only throughput is 5x faster per chip than the Cisco UCS B200/B250 M2 servers. The SPARC T5-2 server has 2 chips and the Cisco 3 server solution has 6 chips.

  • The SPARC T5-2 server batch-only throughput is 18x higher per core than the Cisco UCS B200/B250 M2 servers. The SPARC T5-2 server has 32 cores while the Cisco solution utilized 36 cores.

Both workloads:

  • The SPARC T5-2 server offers a 5.4x cost savings for the application server when compared to the IBM Power 770 application server.

  • The SPARC T5-2 server running Oracle Solaris Containers and consolidating JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle WebLogic servers and the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 utilized a maximum 65% of the available CPU power, leaving headroom for additional processing.

  • The database server in a shared-server configuration allows for optimized CPU resource utilization and significant memory savings on the SPARC T5-2 server without sacrificing performance.

Performance Landscape

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Day in the Life (DIL) Benchmark
Consolidated Online with Batch Workload
System Rack
Units (U)		 Batch
Rate
(UBEs/min)		 Online
Users		 Users/
U		 UBEs/
Core		 UBEs/
Chip		 Version
SPARC T5-2 (2 x SPARC T5, 3.6 GHz) 3 198.5 12000 4000 6.2 99 9.0.2
IBM Power 770 (4 x POWER7, 3.3 GHz) 8 65 12000 1500 2.0 16 9.0.2

Batch Rate (UBEs/min) — Batch transaction rate in UBEs per minute.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Batch Only Benchmark
System Rack
Units (U)		 Batch
Rate
(UBEs/min)		 UBEs/
U		 UBEs/
Core		 UBEs/
Chip		 Version
SPARC T5-2 (2 x SPARC T5, 3.6 GHz) 3 880 267 25 440 9.0.2
IBM Power 770 (4 x POWER7, 3.3 GHz) 8 643 81 20 161 9.0.2
2 x Cisco B200 M2 (2 x X5690, 3.46 GHz)
1 x Cisco B250 M2 (2 x X5680, 3.33 GHz)		 3 546 182 15 91 9.0.2

Configuration Summary

Hardware Configuration:

1 x SPARC T5-2 server with
2 x SPARC T5 processors, 3.6 GHz
512 GB memory
4 x 300 GB 10K RPM SAS internal disk
2 x 300 GB internal SSD
4 x Sun Flash Accelerator F40 PCIe Card (4 x 93 GB)

Software Configuration:

Oracle Solaris 10 1/13
Oracle Solaris Containers
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0.2
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools (8.98.4.2)
Oracle WebLogic Server 11g (10.3.4)
Oracle HTTP Server 11g
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3)

Benchmark Description

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is an integrated applications suite of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Oracle offers 70 JD Edwards EnterpriseOne application modules to support a diverse set of business operations.

Oracle's Day in the Life (DIL) kit is a suite of scripts that exercises most common transactions of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications, including business processes such as payroll, sales order, purchase order, work order, and manufacturing processes, such as ship confirmation. These are labeled by industry acronyms such as SCM, CRM, HCM, SRM and FMS. The kit's scripts execute transactions typical of a mid-sized manufacturing company.

  • The workload consists of online transactions and the UBE – Universal Business Engine workload of 61 short and 4 long UBEs.

  • LoadRunner runs the DIL workload, collects the user’s transactions response times and reports the key metric of Combined Weighted Average Transaction Response time.

  • The UBE processes workload runs from the JD Enterprise Application server.

    • Oracle's UBE processes come as three flavors:
      • Short UBEs < 1 minute engage in Business Report and Summary Analysis,
      • Mid UBEs > 1 minute create a large report of Account, Balance, and Full Address,
      • Long UBEs > 2 minutes simulate Payroll, Sales Order, night only jobs.
    • The UBE workload generates large numbers of PDF files reports and log files.
    • The UBE Queues are categorized as the QBATCHD, a single threaded queue for large and medium UBEs, and the QPROCESS queue for short UBEs run concurrently.

Oracle's UBE process performance metric is Number of Maximum Concurrent UBE processes at transaction rate, UBEs/minute.

Key Points and Best Practices

Four Oracle Solaris processors sets were used with Oracle Solaris Containers assigned to the processor sets as follows:

  • one JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Application server, two Oracle WebLogic Servers 11g Release 1 each coupled with an Oracle Web Tier HTTP server instances (online workload), each in an Oracle Solaris Container (three total),

  • one JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Application server (for batch only workload) in an Oracle Solaris Container,

  • Oracle Database 11g Release 2.0.3 database in an Oracle Solaris Container,

  • the Oracle database log writer.

Other items of note:

  • Each Oracle WebLogic vertical cluster, with twelve managed instances, was configured in a dedicated webserver container in order to load balance users' requests and to provide the infrastructure to support high number of users with ease of deployment and high availability.

  • The database redo logs were configured on the raw disk partitions.

  • The mixed batch workload of 44 short UBEs and 8 long UBEs was executed concurrently with the 12,000 online application users, producing a sustained rate of 198.5 UBE/min.

See Also

Disclosure Statement

Copyright 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Results as of 03/26/2013

SPARC T5-2 (SPARC T5-2 Server base package, 2xSPARC T5 16-core processors, 32x16GB-1066 DIMMS, 4x600GB 10K RPM 2.5. SAS-2 HDD,2x300GB SSDs, 4x Sun Flash Accelerator F40 PCIe Cards, 2x Power Cables) List Price $98,190. IBM Power 770 (IBM Power 770:9917 Model MMC, 2x3.3GHz 16-core, 32x one processor activation, 2xCEC Enclosure with IBM Bezel, I/O Backplane and System Midplane,2x Service Processor, 16x 0/64GB DDR3 Memory (4x16GB) DIMMS-1066MHz Power7 CoD Memory, 24x Activation of 1 GB DDR3 Power7 Memory, 10x Activation of 100GB DDR3 Power7 Memory, 2x Disk/Media Backplane. 2x 300GB SAS 15K RPM 2.5. HDD (AIX/Linux only), 1x SATA slimline DVD-RAM drive, 4x AC Power Supply 1925W) List Price $532,143. Source: ibm.com, collected 03/18/2013.

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