Performance and Scalability Benchmark: Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Industry Applications on HP BL460c Servers Running Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.5 and Oracle 10gR2 DB on HP RX6600

This paper describes the performance and scalability capabilities of Oracle's Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Applications Release 8.0. The benchmark comprised 5,000 concurrent users running Siebel CRM Release 8.0 industry applications on HP BL460c and Oracle 10gR2 DB on HP RX6600 Servers. The servers supporting the Siebel Gateway, Siebel Application Server and Siebel Web Server SWSE Plug-in ran the Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.5 operating system, while the server supporting the Oracle 10gR2 DB ran the HP-UX 11iv3 operating system. Oracle's Siebel Platform Sizing and Performance Program is a test suite certified by Oracle and executed independently by HP. HP completed the benchmark on August 8, 2008; Oracle certified it on August 28, 2008.