Comparison of Sun Fire V 490 and Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server

Hi,

Which of the following will be ideal for a 2-node sun cluster with
Oracle HA or RAC interms of performance:

Sun Fire V490 Server with 2 * 2.1 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processors with
32MB cache each, 16GB memory (16* 1GB DIMMs) or

Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server which includes 2*2.15GHz SPARC64 VI
Processors (1 CPU boards with 2 *CPUS each & 5MB on-chip L2 cache),
and 16GB system memory on 2 memory modules (2 memory modules with 8 *
1GB DDR2 DIMMs),

Regards,
Raghu

On Jun 26, 9:24*pm, Bruce <brucemcgill....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Which of the following will be ideal for a 2-node sun cluster with
> Oracle HA or RAC interms of performance:
>
> Sun Fire V490 Server with 2 * 2.1 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processors with
> 32MB cache each, 16GB memory (16* 1GB DIMMs) *or
>
> Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server which includes 2*2.15GHz SPARC64 VI
> Processors (1 CPU boards with 2 *CPUS each & 5MB on-chip L2 cache),
> and 16GB system memory on 2 memory modules (2 memory modules with 8 *
> 1GB DDR2 DIMMs),
>
> Regards,
> Raghu

I would say the V490 for sure, Benchmarks for 2 node clustering are
far superior to the relatively new and untested M4000........ and it's
cheaper!!

Just my twopennies worth!