Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 Product Family
The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family is at the heart of a flexible and efficient data center that meets your diverse needs. These engineering marvels are designed to deliver the best combination of performance, energy efficiency, built-in capabilities, and cost-effectiveness. You’ll be delighted by the exceptional virtualization performance you’ll see with Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family-based servers. The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family – versatile processors at the heart of today’s data center.
Virtualized Server Consolidation Performance Using VMmark* v2.1
VMmark* is a free tool that hardware vendors, virtualization software vendors, and other organizations use to measure the performance and scalability of applications running in virtualized environments. VMmark* enables users to:
- Measure virtual data center performance accurately and reliably
- View and compare the performance of different hardware and virtualization platforms
Configuration Details
Best publications submitted to http://www.vmware.com/a/vmmark/ as of May 21, 2012. Submissions may still be under review.
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Intel® Xeon® Processor X5690-Based Platform | Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2690-Based Platform |
|---|---|---|
System |
Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S6* |
HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 |
Number of processors |
2 |
2 |
Number of cores / threads |
6/12 per processor |
8/16 per processor |
Processor speed |
3.46 GHz |
2.9 GHz |
Last level cache |
12 MB |
20 MB |
Platform manufacturer |
Fujitsu* |
HP* |
System memory |
96 GB per node |
256GB per node |
Link speed |
6.4 GT/s QPI |
8.0 GT/s QPI |
Operating system |
Microsoft Windows* Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition |
Microsoft Windows* Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition |
Hypervisor |
VMware ESX* 4.1 |
VMware ESX* 4.1 U2 |
Source |
http://www.vmware.com/a/assets/ |
http://www.vmware.com/a/assets/vmmark/pdf/2012-05-15-HP-DL360pG8.pdf |
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