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An Oracle White Paper September 2012
Consolidation on High-End SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers Boost Server Utilization and Simplify Application Deployment by Consolidating on Oracle’s SPARC Enterprise M8000 or M9000 Servers
Oracle White Paper— Consolidation on High End SPARC Enterprise Servers
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Executive Overview 3 Why Server and Application Consolidation? 4 Requirements for Consolidation 5 Consolidation on Large, Vertically Scalable SMP Servers 6 Oracle’s SPARC Enterprise M8000 and M9000 High-End SMP Servers 7 Case Study 14 Conclusion 15 Further Information 15
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