HP Proliant DL785 G5 rocks at VMWare
08/08 HP ProLiant DL785 G5 posts #1 result for virtualization performance
The HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieved the highest virtualization performance and largest number of virtual machines on an x86 server, achieving 96 virtual machines with a score of 21.88@16 tiles. The leading result proves the ideal suitability of the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 for virtualization and consolidation environments.
VMWare released some benchmark information illustrating that the DL785G5 achieved impressive results in virtualization testing which is very cool. It also shows the volume of virtual machines that could be consolidated on to one platform.
The 8 socket server remains an efficient platform for virtualization and might be just what some customers are after, for example replacing several physical servers on to one server, saving power, hardware support and space costs.
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Don't you need to weigh the options of that consolidation in terms of space, power and support in the fact that you are putting a lot of eggs in one basket. Don't get me wrong, it's a very nice box, but say you are going to run ~96 VM's on it, what about redundancy/HA. As my environment has grown, it has become a big concern for me. Do I get fewer larger boxes(8 socket) and put them in a HA cluster, or spread the load out over more smaller boxes(4 socket). I have a production cluster of three 4socket QuadCore servers with 90 VM's running in it. Monday, one of the servers took a hit while we had a case open and HA failed to work properly. I lost 30 vm's for little over 30 minutes. For production, I can't see the risk, but maybe as a dev/stage environment I can see a larger box like this being useful.
really depends on the environment your on and how high you want to stack workloads. i've setup 16 node clusters with a mixture of 2 socket and 4 socket quads (Intel) and would have used 8 sockets if Intel still made them. I started way back with a mix of DL580G2's and DL740's w ESX 2.x and had great success. More procs; more places to schedule VM's and they can get the performance attention they ask for.