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Shigura
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VMmark - understanding what's better - DL380G6 or DL385G6?

Looking at the VMmarks :-

HP ProLiant DL385 G6

VMware ESX v4.0

VMmark v1.1

15.54@11 tiles

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HP ProLiant DL380 G6

VMware ESX v4.0

VMmark v1.1

24.15@17tiles

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How do you decide which is is more suitable to running Vsphere? I'm slightly confused on understanding the figures. From the doc's it looks like the first figure is a performance figure and the second the number of tiles the server was able to run without undue performance hits. In which case, is it that the 385 runs faster VM's but can't run as many VM's as the 380? Is it that simple?

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FredPeterson
Expert
Expert

Not even a fair comparison, Nelahem against the Operaton. AMD is way behind in the race right now.

Your decision point is going to come down to price and consolidation ratios you are willing to achieve.

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meistermn
Expert
Expert

It is a fair comparision between two socket servers from Intel and AMD

Intel

AMD

Socket

2

2

Cres per CPU

4

4

Hypertreading

yes

no

Logical CPU

8

4

´VMware License

2

2

Vmmark Value

17 tiles

11 tiles

1 Tile

6 different workloads

6 different worloads

Tiles x Workload = standard VM's

6 x 17 = 102 VM'S

6 x 11 = 66 VM's

Result

36 more VM'S than AMD

Read although about

Anatech report

Quick Take: Nehalem/Istanbul Comparison at AnandTech

Intel VMdq support

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rmagoon
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

I would recommend not looking too deeply into the benchmark results for

CPU. CPU most likely won't be your bottleneck. Usually memory and

disk IO will be performance factors before CPU. To maximize CPU, you

must hit very high amounts of memory which ruins your ROI (compared to

less memory and more servers). Instead, consider sticking with what

you already have within your datacenter or compare price/performance

between models.

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cluangar
Contributor
Contributor

not fair. DL385G6 have 64GB DDR2 667MHz Registered ECC but DL380G6 have 96GB DDR3 1066MHz Registered ECC.

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markzz
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

What said is so very true.

AMD I'm sure will soon enough get back in the ball park but for now Intel are kicking their behinds.

CPU is very unlikely going to be the limiting resource..Memory, Storage IO, NIC IO, usually falter before CPU

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