One of the industry-leading independent technology assessment service firms, Principled Technologies, just updated their site with a ton of white papers covering performance on just about any product or technology. You can check out their website at http://www.principledtechnologies.com/default.htm for the complete list, but I wanted to give you the links to their papers that cover virtualization performance on blade servers.
These are the newest white papers, and yes they are mostly Dell. However, keep an eye on
http://www.principledtechnologies.com/Topics/servers.htm as I’m sure they’ll have HP, IBM and Cisco papers up soon.
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Database server consolidation with an Intel Xeon processor E5-2690-based server We tested to see how many dual-socket quad-core legacy servers this new server could consolidate using virtualization. |
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Server consolidation and TCO: Dell PowerEdge M620 vs. HP ProLiant BL490 We examine the number of virtual machines each server could support and the total cost of ownership for each server over 3 years. |
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Server consolidation and TCO: Dell PowerEdge M620 vs. Dell PowerEdge M710HD We examine the number of virtual machines each server could support and the total cost of ownership for each server over 3 years. |
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Server consolidation and TCO: Dell PowerEdge M620 vs. Dell PowerEdge M610 We examine the number of virtual machines each server could support and the total cost of ownership for each server over 3 years |
Kevin Houston is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of BladesMadeSimple.com. He has over 15 years of experience in the x86 server marketplace. Since 1997 Kevin has worked at several resellers in the Atlanta area, and has a vast array of competitive x86 server knowledge and certifications as well as an in-depth understanding of VMware and Citrix virtualization. Kevin works for Dell as a Server Specialist covering the Global 500 East market.
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Are they kidding comparing old BL490 vs new generation M620?
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Yeah, I’ve gotta come out and say that the study seems a bit flawed… Comparing a BL490 with 6 core, 12 DIMM, PCI-2.0 architecture with an 8 core, 18 DIMM slot, PCI-3.0 architecture really isn’t a fair comparison.. Although that isn’t shocking as most vendor funded “independent 3rd party” studies are fairly useless… regardless of which vendor commissioned the study
Hi Yes I agree with Adam Wolfson, you cant rely on vendor funded studies, Have the Guys seen the Blade servers produced by Hitachi (HDS) ? They claim it come with 10 core and 1TB of memorry
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It is a nice set for performance resource, but I like the way you covered in the Intel Blade Server. It make sense when seeing the white papers of Blade servers virtual performance.