6. Latest VMmark Scores AMD has leading score in 5 of 6 categories http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html System Description VMmark Version & Score Processors, Sockets, & Threads Published Date 48 core HP ProLiant DL785 G6 "Istanbul" 2.8GHz, 256GB DDR2 VMware ESX 4.0 VMmark v1.1 53.73 @ 35 tiles 8 sockets 48 total cores 48 threads 8/25/2009 32 core HP ProLiant DL785 G5 "Shanghai" 3.1 GHz, 256GB DDR2 VMware ESX 4.0 VMmark v1.1 31.56@21 tiles 8 sockets 32 total cores 32 threads 6/2/2009 24 core HP ProLiant DL585 G6 "Istanbul" 2.6 GHz VMware ESX 4.0 VMmark v1.1 29.99@20 tiles 4 sockets 24 total cores 24 threads 7/14/2009 16 core Dell PowerEdge M905 "Shanghai" 3.1 GHz, 128GB DDR2 VMware ESX v4.0 VMmark v1.1.1 22.90@17 tiles 4 sockets 16 total cores 16 threads 6/19/2009 12 core HP ProLiant DL385 G6 "Istanbul" 2.6 GHz. 64GB DDR2 VMware ESX v4.0 VMmark v1.1 15.54@11 tiles 2 sockets 12 total cores 12 threads 6/2/2009 8 core Lenovo R525 G2 "Gainestown" 2.93 GHz, 96GB DDR3 VMware ESX v4.0 VMmark v1.1.1 [email_address] 2 sockets 8 total cores 16 threads 6/30/2009
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8. Dell System Cost comparison- SMB store Cost per Virtual Machine For configuration information see slide 13
9. Evaluating Real World Workloads vAPUS Mark I stress tests VMs running database and web serving applications with “real world” workloads Configurations on slide # Geometric Mean of 4 VMs, Higher is better VMware ESX 3.5 u4 VMware ESX 4.0 Six-Core AMD Opteron “Istanbul” standard model 2435 performs within 13% of Intel Xeon “Gainestown” high performance model X5570
10. “ Real World” Virtualization Performance Evaluations SPEC and SPECweb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results stated above reflect results published on http://www.spec.org/ as of June 10, 2009. The comparison presented above is based on the best performing four-socket servers using AMD Opteron™ processor Models 8382. For the latest results, visit www.spec.org . Server Based Computing performance reflects results published on http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA0-8429ENW.pdf as of June 10, 2009. Please see backup slides for configuration information. Achieving lower overhead for virtualized applications
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14. System Configurations-slide 8 Systems configured and priced on 7/15/2009 at http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/rack_optimized?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~tab=3 $2999 $3871
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Web Server performance : when virtualizing web servers in a 4P solution, the AMD Opteron “Shanghai” processor can deliver performance within 20% from a comparable unvirtualized server in a “raw performance score” comparison. The scores achieved by these two servers represent extremes when compared to most web serving environment. The real story of web server virtualization is the gains due to web farm consolidation and improved flexibility. Infrastructure serving as the web front end today is designed around hundreds or even thousands of often underutilized two and four core servers. Consolidation of these servers onto modern systems with multi-core CPUs reduces costs, simplifies management and eases power and cooling demands. This SPECweb2005 result from VMware has shown that the AMD Opteron processor running ESX Server can handle loads much more extreme than anticipated in a consolidated web serving environment. SBC performance: this chart proves that the 2000 series AMD Opteron “Istanbul” processor has lower virtualization overhead when used in a general purpose (e.g. file/print) environment than a server using the Intel Xeon 5500 “Gainestown” processor. On the left side of the chart, the Xeon processor supports 402 users vs. Opteron’s 360 users. However, when a virtualiztion layer is added, the Opteron still supports 360 users (zero virtualization overhead degradation) while the “Gainestown” server drops to 340 users (15.42% virtualization degradation).