We have produced the following currently publicly available reports for Red Hat, Inc.

 

 

 

Migrating Oracle Database from Oracle Solaris 10 on the Sun Fire V440 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on the IBM System x3650 M3 We did this migration from start to finish, and we show you how to do it, too.

SR-IOV performance advantage: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 We compared the database performance of PostgreSQL instances on a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 using Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) connections and normal bridged connections to the iSCSI SAN.

Database scaling using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 We compared the database performance of a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with multiple PostgreSQL database instances using cgroups to that of the same server with a single PostgreSQL database instance.

Hardware-assisted virtualized-I/O messaging analysis on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 We compared the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) performance of the KVM hypervisor platform with Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with the KVM hypervisor using standard bridged networking.

Migrating SAP ERP 6.0 and IBM DB2 LUW version 9.1 from Solaris 10 Enterprise on Sun Fire T2000 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform for SAP applications on IBM System x3650 M2 with Intel® Xeon® processors We summarize and detail the tested approach we followed for this migration

Java density performance comparison: Red Hat Kernel Virtual Machine with KSM vs. Microsoft Hyper-V on the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution We compared virtualized Java workload density performance of Red Hat KVM technology using Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V™ technology (Hyper-V) running on the same server-and-storage solution.

 

Virtualized database hypervisor scaling report: Red Hat Kernel Virtual Machine running on the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution We analyzed the scalability of virtualized online transaction processing (OLTP) performance of the Red Hat® Kernel Virtual Machine® (KVM) hypervisor technology.

 

Virtualized messaging hypervisor analysis on Red Hat Kernel Virtual Machine running on the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution We analyzed the virtualized messaging performance of the Red Hat® Kernel Virtual Machine® (KVM) hypervisor with VMs running Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).

 

SPEC CPU2006 SPECint_rate performance on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Intel-based servers We tested two configurations: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 running native on an Intel Xeon® X7460-based (2.66 GHz) server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 running as a guest on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on the same server.

SPEC CPU2006 SPECfp_rate performance on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Intel-based servers We tested two configurations: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 running native on an Intel Xeon® X7460-based (2.66 GHz) server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 running as a guest on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on the same server.

SPECjbb2005 performance on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Intel-based servers We tested two configurations: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 running native on an Intel Xeon® X7460-based (2.66 GHz) server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 running as a guest on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on the same server.

SPEC CPU2006 SPECfp_rate_base performance on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and 3 AS Intel-based servers SPEC CPU2006 is an industry-standard benchmark created by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation to measure a system's floating-point processor performance. We measured the SPECfp_rate_base performance of three servers: a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 server on a Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7140M-based (3.4 GHz) server, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 guest on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 server on a Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350-based (2.93 GHz) server, and a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 server on a Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350-based (2.93 GHz) server.

SPECjbb2005 performance on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and 3 AS Intel-based servers SPECjbb2005 is an industry-standard benchmark created by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation to measure a server's Java performance. We measured the SPECjbb2005 performance of three servers: a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 server on a Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7140M-based (3.4 GHz) server, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 guest on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 server on a Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350-based (2.93 GHz) server, and a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 server on a Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350-based (2.93 GHz) server.

SPEC CPU2006 SPECint_rate_base performance on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and 3 AS Intel-based servers  SPEC CPU2006 SPECint_rate_base is an industry-standard benchmark created by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation to provide a comparative measure of compute-intensive integer performance. We used it to evaluate the performance of three servers: a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 server on a Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7140M-based (3.4 GHz) server, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 guest on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 server on a Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350-based (2.93 GHz) server, and a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 server on a Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350-based (2.93 GHz) server.

Linpack performance on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and 3 AS Intel-based servers  Linpack is an industry-standard benchmark that solves linear equations and uses the speed of the system under test at that task as a measure of the system's floating point performance. We used Linpack to evaluate the performance of three servers: a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 server on a Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7140M-based (3.4 GHz) server, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 guest on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 server on a Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350-based (2.93 GHz) server, and a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 server on a Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350-based (2.93 GHz) server.

We gave the following presentation at Fall IDF in San Francisco on September 19, 2007:

Comparative performance test Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS on Intel-based servers Red Hat, Inc. and Intel Corp. commissioned us to compare the performance of three servers, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 server on a Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7140M-based (3.4 GHz) server, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 guest on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 server on a Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350-based (2.93 GHz) server, and a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 server on a Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X7350-based (2.93 GHz) server on three different workloads. This presentation, which we gave at Fall IDF in San Francisco on September 19, 2007, summarizes our findings.

We had previously published four reports comparing the performance of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Intel processor-based system and a Sun Solaris 10 AMD processor-based system. Sun required us to remove those reports.