Cisco Cisco UCS B440 M1 High-Performance Blade Server White Paper

 

 

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White Paper 

 

Deploy a High-Performance Database Solution: 
Cisco UCS B420 M4 Blade Server with Fusion 
ioMemory PX600 Using Oracle Database 12c 

What You Will Learn 

This document demonstrates the benefits of using the Cisco UCS

®

 B420 M4 Blade Server with Fusion ioMemory 

PX600 for a high-performance transactional workload on Oracle database12c. Swingbench was used to populate 

the database and generate the I/O workload for this solution. The solution performed nearly 1 million transactions 

per minute, resulting in 100,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS) with average latency of just 0.4 millisecond. 

Solution Benefits 

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Optimize your return on investment (ROI). 

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Easily deploy and scale the solution. 

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Get faster responses at a lower cost. 

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Achieve a high number of I/O operations per second (IOPS) and low latency. 

Highlights 

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The Cisco UCS

®

 B420 M4 Blade Server platform enables customers to improve performance of all critical 

applications, reduce IT costs through consolidation, manage more data on less hardware, and make better 

business decisions in real time. Linear scalability in database performance was achieved as the number of 

users increased from 50 to 400 concurrent users.  

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Overall productivity is increased due to the elimination of inherent issues that arise with spinning-disk 

solutions. The solution decouples database and storage administration from database storage 

troubleshooting to optimize Oracle applications, leading to an improved customer experience. 

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Reduced storage infrastructure requirements result in a significant cost reduction. 

Overview 

Designed for demanding virtualization and database workloads, the Cisco UCS B420 M4 Blade Server (Figure 1) 

combines a large memory footprint with 4-socket scalability using the Intel

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 Xeon

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 processor E5-4600 v3 product 

family. The blade server supports 2133 MHz of DDR4 memory and uses Cisco UCS virtual interface card (VIC) 

technology to achieve up to 160 Gbps of aggregate I/O bandwidth, all in a dense, full-width blade form factor. The 

Cisco UCS B420 M4 maintains memory performance even as capacity grows, and the large power envelope of the 

Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis means the Cisco UCS B420 M4 can handle up to 3 terabytes (TB) of 

memory without compromising CPU speed or core count. Up to four Cisco UCS B420 M4 servers can be installed 

in the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis.