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Key features
- Unique protection of application data from memory attacks or exploits of software vulnerabilities
- End to end encryption of data with near zero performance impact
- Easy compliance management of application environments throughout their life cycles, ensuring security of cloud infrastructure
- Extreme acceleration of Oracle database In-Memory queries, especially for compressed databases
- Ability to run analytics on OLTP databases, enabling real time insight on transactional data
- Optimized for Java applications, middleware software, database and enterprise applications
- Near zero overhead virtualization for deploying more than 100 virtual machines per processor, lowering the cost per virtual machine
- Advanced design enables this single processor system to outperform competitive two processor systems, lowering IT cost
Key benefits
- Based on the advanced SPARC M7 processor, with first ever software in silicon technology for security, performance and efficiency.
- 2 times faster performance per processor compared to current competitive processors or previous generation SPARC processors
- Scalability within the same family of servers from 1 to 16 sockets with complete compatibility for applications and management
- Runs the Oracle Solaris 11 operating system for secure and compliant application deployment through single step patching and immutable zones
- Agile and open cloud management with OpenStack and powerful application driven software declined networking
- Built in, no cost virtualization technology with Oracle Solaris Zones and Oracle VM Server for SPARC
- Guaranteed binary compatibility and support for legacy applications that run under Oracle Solaris 10, 9 and 8
- Up to 12.8 TB of accelerated storage utilizing industry standard NVMe technology in order to satisfy the most demanding I/O requirements
- Designed for the highest levels of reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) in a compact, energy efficient footprint.
Product Overview
Oracle's SPARC T7-4 server is a four 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 middlewware, 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.
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 encryption 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 quesry 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 to handle SQL primitives, such as those used by Oracle database in memory in Oracle databases. The accelerators operate on data at full memory speeds, taking advantage of the very high memory bandwidth of the processor.The 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 enterprise applications. Using this efficient design, together with Oracle Solaris virtualization technology with near zero overhead, a much larger 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 T7-4 server are large memory capacity, higher bandwidth and minimal latencu, 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 intergrated 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 multiserver management tools in Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, a system management tool that, in conjunction with Oracle Enterprise Mnagaer, 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.
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