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Virtualization Update

Virtualization Update | August 28, 20092

Virtualization Use Cases

Business Continuity•Improve disaster recovery •Enable geographic diversification•Add high availability options

Test and Development• Improve resource utilization • Provision new applications in minutes• Increase user uptime

Hosted Client• Improve data and application security • Simplify management• Reduce client infrastructure costs

Consolidation•Minimize capital expenditures •Reduce operating costs•Increase server utilization rates


The Virtualization Platform

2 Socket Server• Users who want fewer VMs per

server to minimize risk

• Environments where backup constraints limit the number of VMs per server

• Consolidation platform for remote offices or smaller sites

• Virtualizing to improve management: disaster recovery, business continuity, test and development

• Virtualizing to support legacy applications running on older operating systems

4 Socket Server• Users who want fewer, larger

servers with more VMs per box

• Users who need more robust VMs to run demanding applications (databases, SAP)

• Consolidation platform for data centers minimizing footprint

• Headroom needed for scaling growing workload or handling peak demands

• Offers more ‘capabilities’ such as processors/cores, memory, I/O ports and reliability features

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Virtualization Performance Evaluations

Consolidation Benchmarks

• VMware’s VMmark

Cost per VM Evaluations – price/performance

• AMD’s cost per VM evaluations

“Real World” Workload Evaluations

• AnandTech’s vAPUS Mark I

Virtualization Overhead Evaluation

• VMware’s SPECweb2005 submissions

• HP’s Server Based Computing evaluations


Understanding VMmark BenchmarkVMmark Benchmark Real World IT Environment

Number of Tiles represents number of VMs - a tile is a collection of 6 VMs, and VMs are increased by adding more tiles

Number of VMs per server depends on the characteristics of the workload with new VMs added individually as needed

Benchmark Score is an aggregate of normalized individual VM scores

Individual VM performance is important to achieving a desired user service level

Top VMmark Score is achieved by running a large number of tiles (VMs) per server

Responses to SearchDataCenter.com’s 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey: •61% run less than 10 VMs per server•33% run 10 to 25 VMs per server•5% run more than 25 VMs on a serverhttp://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid80_gci1329227,00.html

VMs are running throttled workloads VM workloads fluctuate based on demand

One client is used to drive a tile (6 VMs) Multiple clients drive one VM

VMs are running “sub-tests” derived from commonly used load-generation tools

VM are running real applications

Mocks a consolidation use case comprised of multiple, moderately used VMs

Consolidation is just one of several use cases for virtualization

http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/overview.html


Latest VMmark Scores

System Description VMmark Version & Score

Processors, Sockets, & Threads

PublishedDate

48 core HP ProLiant DL785 G6"Istanbul" 2.8GHz, 256GB DDR2VMware ESX 4.0

VMmark v1.153.73 @ 35 tiles

8 sockets48 total cores48 threads

8/25/2009

32 core HP ProLiant DL785 G5"Shanghai" 3.1 GHz, 256GB DDR2VMware ESX 4.0

VMmark v1.131.56@21 tiles


6/2/2009

24 core HP ProLiant DL585 G6"Istanbul" 2.6 GHzVMware ESX 4.0



7/14/2009

16 core Dell PowerEdge M905"Shanghai" 3.1 GHz, 128GB DDR2 VMware ESX v4.0

VMmark v1.1.122.90@17 tiles


6/19/2009

12 core HP ProLiant DL385 G6"Istanbul" 2.6 GHz. 64GB DDR2VMware ESX v4.0



6/2/2009

8 core Lenovo R525 G2"Gainestown" 2.93 GHz, 96GB DDR3VMware ESX v4.0

VMmark v1.1.124.35@17tiles


6/30/2009

AMD has leading score in 5 of 6 categorieshttp://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html


Evaluating Virtualization Price/Performance

HP ProLiant DL380 G6"Gainestown"

HP ProLiant DL380 G6"Gainestown"

HP ProLiant DL385 G6"Istanbul"

ProcessorIntel® Xeon® Processor Model X5570, 2.93GHz,

95 Watts TDP

Intel® Xeon® Processor Model X5570, 2.93GHz,

95 Watts TDP

AMD Opteron™ Processor Model 2435, 2.6GHz,

75W ACP

Memory

48GB DDR3 1066 MHz6 x 8GB

Virtualization Config per HP DDR3 Configuration Tool

48GB DDR3 1333 MHz12 x 4GB

Low Cost Config per HP DDR3 Configuration Tool

48GB DD2 800 MHz12 x 4GB

Virtualization and low cost configuration

System Cost $12,442.00 $8,452.00 $6,401.00Cost per VM for 10 VMs $1,244.20 $845.20 $640.10 Cost per VM for 60 VMs $207.37 $140.87 $106.68

Six-Core AMD Opteron continues the AMD focus on providing a platform that offers a balance of performance, power, and price •Standard power band processor•Lower system cost and lower cost per VM

Cost per VM for 2P/2U 48GB Memory Server Configurations


Dell System Cost comparison- SMB storeCost per Virtual Machine

For configuration information see slide 13


vAPUS Mark I stress tests VMs running database and web serving applications with “real world”

workloads

Evaluating Real World Workloads

Configurations on slide #

Geometric Mean of 4 VMs, Higher is better

257

255

203

0 100 200 300

Intel Xeon X5570 “Gainestown” - 2.93GHz

AMD Opteron processor 2435"Istanbul" - 2.6GHz

AMD Opteron processor 2389 "Shanghai" -

2.9GHz

283

250

220 240 260 280 300

Intel Xeon X5570 “Gainestown” - 2.93GHz

AMD Opteron processor 2435"Istanbul" - 2.6GHz

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


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.

“Real World” Virtualization Performance Evaluations

Achieving lower overhead for virtualized applications


Learn More about Virtualization with AMD

AMD Virtualization on AMD.com

http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/virtualization/Pages/virtualization.aspx

AMD Virtualization Blog

http://blogs.amd.com/virtualization/

IDG Accelerate Virtualization Knowledge Center

http://www.accelerateresults.com/enterprise/kc/virtualization

Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor

http://www.amd.com/US/PRODUCTS/SERVER/SIX-CORE-OPTERON/Pages/six-core-opteron.aspx



Real World Virtualization workloads-slide 7HP ProLiant DL380 G6 Server

$12,442.00

• 2 x Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5570

• HP 48GB PC3-8500R 6x8GB 2Rank Memory

• Embedded P410i (SAS Array Controller)

• HP 8-Bay Small Form Factor Drive Cage

• HP 146GB 3G Hot Plug 2.5 SAS Dual Port 15,000 rpm Enterprise Hard Drive

• (2) Embedded HP NC382i Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapters

• HP 1200W 12V Hotplug ACC Power Supply

• Integrated Lights Out 2 (iLO 2) Standard Management

• HP Standard Limited Warranty - 3 Years Parts and on-site Labor, Next Business Day

HP ProLiant DL380 G6 Server $8,452.00

• 2 x Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5570 • HP 48GB PC3-10600R 12x4GB 2Rank Memory• Embedded P410i (SAS Array Controller)• HP 8-Bay Small Form Factor Drive Cage• HP 146GB Hot Plug 2.5 SAS Dual Port 10,000 rpm Hard Drive• (2) Embedded HP NC382i Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapters• HP 460W HE 12V Hotplug AC Power Supply• Integrated Lights Out 2 (iLO 2) Standard Management• HP Standard Limited Warranty - 3 Years Parts and on-site Labor, Next Business Day

HP ProLiant DL385 G6 Small Form Factor Server $6,401.00

• 2 x Six-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor Model 2435 • HP 48GB REG PC2-6400 12x4GB LP Dual Rank Memory• HP P410/ZM Smart Array Controller• HP 8-Bay Small Form Factor Drive Cage• HP 146GB Hot Plug 2.5 SAS Dual Port 10,000 rpm Hard Drive• HP 1200W 12V Hotplug ACC Power Supply• HP Redundant Hot-Plug Fans• Two Broadcom 5709 (4 Ports)• Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO2) Management• 3 years parts, labor and onsite service (3/3/3) standard warranty. Certain restrictions and exclusions apply.

Prices reflect configurations from hp.com on June 5th, 2009


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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