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Most Advanced Two-Socket Server for End-to-End Security
Oracle's SPARC T7-2 server is a two processor system that enables organizations to respond to IT demands with extreme security and performance, at a lower cost compared to alternatives. It is ideal for a wide range of enterprise class workloads, including database, applications, Java, and middleware, especially in a cloud environment. This system is based on the SPARC M7 processor, the first to use a revolutionary technology from Oracle referred to as Software in Silicon. Software in silicon technology is a breakthrough in microprocessor and server design, enabling databases and applications to run faster and with unprecedented security and reliability. The silicon secured memory feature of Oracle's SPARC M7 processor provides the capability of detecting and preventing invalid operations to application data, through hardware monitoring of software access to memory.
Features & Benefits
| Fastest cryptographic acceleration in the industry, more than 3x faster than competitors |
Delivers end-to-end data encryption and secure transactions with near-zero performance impact, and at no additional hardware cost |
| Secure, encrypted, live migration of workloads between systems |
Helps ensure that secure data is not exposed while maintaining the necessary uptime to keep your business running |
| Oracle’s Silicon Secured Memory helps ensure your data is secure |
Prevents malicious memory attacks, helps ensure the integrity of the application data, and improves developer efficiency by verifying access to data in memory through hardware |
| Engineered for Oracle workloads |
Complete integration across the entire stack, delivering extreme performance for Oracle Database and Java workloads with outstanding value and business agility |
| Execute OLTP transactions and data analytics on a single SPARC M7 based server with in-memory technology |
Quickly access and analyze data to gain new insights for making business decisions in real time |
| Acceleration engines in the SPARC M7 processor greatly accelerate Oracle Database 12c In-Memory, and the processing of uncompressed and compressed data |
Acceleration of database queries and fast decompression of data sets result in unparalleled performance gains |
| Built-in, no-cost virtualization for mission-critical cloud infrastructures |
Enables you to consolidate workloads and simplify IT infrastructures, bringing new levels of efficiency, manageability, and agility to the data center |
| Single-step patching, immutable virtual machines, and easy security audits with Oracle Solaris 11.3 |
Easily deploy security patches and help ensure security compliance |
This can stop malware from exploiting software vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows. The hardware approach of silicon secured memory is much faster than traditional software based detection tools, meaning that security checks can be done in production without significant impact to performance. In addition, each processor core contains the fastest cryptographic acceleration in the industry, allowing IT organizations to deliver end to end data encryptions and secure transactions with near zero performance impact. In summary, you can easily activate data protection and encryption security by default, without additional hardware investment.
In memory, query acceleration is another unique software in silicon feature in SPARC M7 based servers. It is implemented through accelerators specifically designed into the chip's silicon handle SQL primitives, such as those used by Oracle Database in memory in Oracle database. The accelerators operate on data at full memory speeds, taking advantage of the very high memory bandwidth of the processor. This produces extreme acceleration of in memory queries while processor cores are freed up to do other useful work.
In addition, the ability of these accelerators to handle compressed data on the fly means that larger databases can be kept in memory, or that less server memory needs to be configured for a given database size. Consider the result, you can run fast in memory analytics on your database, using much less memory than the size of your data, without significantly increasing server utilization rates or affecting your OLTP operations.
The record breaking performance of the servers based on SPARC M7 processors comes from its 32 cores, each handling up to 8 threads using unique dynamic threading technology. The processor can dynamically adapt to provide extreme single thread performance, or enable massive throughput by running up to 256 threads. The processor cores are designed to accelerate Java workloads, especially Java 8 applications and beyond and enterpsie applications. Using this efficient design, together with Oracle Solaris virtualization technology with near zero overhead, a much large number of virtual machines can be supported on Oracle's SPARC servers compared with Intel Xeon based systems, resulting in a significant decrease in the cost per virtual machine.
The technology breakthrough in SPARC servers is enabled by the Oracle Solaris operating system. Oracle Solaris 11 is a secure, integrated and open platform engineered for large scale enterprise cloud environments, with unique optimization for oracle database, middleware and application deployments. Security can be easily set up and enabled by default, while single step patching and immutable zones allow compliance to be maintained with simplicity. You can create complete application software stacks, lock them securely, deploy them in a cloud and update them in a single step, all while maintaining compliance and easily generating audit reports. Oracle Solaris 11 combines OpenStack with powerful application driven software defined networking for agile deployment of cloud infrastructure.
Built in virtualization capabilities in Oracle's SPARC servers include both Oracle Solaris zones and Oracle VM server for SPARC. These allow enterprise workloads to be run within a virtual environment with near zero performance impact. You can virtualize and consolidate many servers onto one, reducing the physical footprint of the data center as well as lowering the costs of operation, power and cooling. Oracle Solaris zones technology provides the capability to run legacy applications that require earlier versions of Oracle Solaris.
Other advanced capabilities of the SPARC T7-2 server are large memory capacity, higher bandwidth and minimal latency, which are achieved through four enhanced memory controllers per socket, faster and reduced power DDR4 memory and prefetch acceleration techniques. The I/O subsystem supports low profile PCIe 3.0 adapters and industry standard NVMe flash technology to provide high capacity storage with minimal latency. Integrated controllers for networking, disks and management reduce the cost of the system and provide greater expandability.
All Oracle servers ship with comprehensive server management tools at no additional cost. Oracle integrated lights out manager (Oracle ILOM) utilizes industry standard protocols to provide secure and comprehensive local and remote management, including power management and monitoring, fault detection and notification. Oracle Premier support customers have access to my oracle support and multi server management tools in Oracle enterprise manager ops center, a system management tool that, in conjunction with Oracle enterprise manager, coordinates servers, storage and networking for a complete cloud infrastructure as a service (laaS).
Oracle enterprise manager ops center also features an automated service request capability, whereby potential issues are detected and reported to Oracle's support center without user intervention, assuring the maximum service levels and simplified support.
