Should you bother with quad socket servers now that we have powerful dual socket platforms available? We check how the quad Xeon X7460, quad Opteron 8345, and the dual socket servers compare in terms of performance and power use….
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Expensive Quad Sockets vs. Ubiquitous Dual Sockets
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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Testing the latest x86 rack servers and low power server CPUs
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
We test five different x86 rack servers that focus on reducing power requirements and keeping costs very low. At the same time, we show how the low power Opterons and Xeons stack up to their faster siblings….
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We test five different x86 rack servers that focus on reducing power requirements and keeping costs very low. At the same time, we show how the low power Opterons and Xeons stack up to their faster siblings….
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Optimizing for Virtualization, Part 2
Monday, June 29th, 2009
This is the second part of our ESX optimization tips and tricks, diving into storage optimization and configuration options….
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This is the second part of our ESX optimization tips and tricks, diving into storage optimization and configuration options….
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Optimizing for Virtualization
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Want to gain the upper hand on your colleagues by getting the very best performance out of ESX? AnandTech IT shares its best practices uncovered in the development of their vApus Mark I benchmark….
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Want to gain the upper hand on your colleagues by getting the very best performance out of ESX? AnandTech IT shares its best practices uncovered in the development of their vApus Mark I benchmark….
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AMD’s Six-Core Opteron 2435
Monday, June 1st, 2009
AMD added 2 cores to the improved AMD quad-core “Shanghai”. Which applications can take advantage of these extra cores? The answer is more interesting than you might think at first. …
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AMD added 2 cores to the improved AMD quad-core “Shanghai”. Which applications can take advantage of these extra cores? The answer is more interesting than you might think at first. …
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Real-world virtualization benchmarking: the best server CPUs compared
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
We proudly present our newest virtualization benchmarking effort: vApus Mark I. The results are quite surprising on the latest server CPUs as it paints a very different picture than VMmark. Get a second opinion on how strong or weak the different CPUs are when they are running heavy-duty virtualized applications on ESX 3.5 Update 4….
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We proudly present our newest virtualization benchmarking effort: vApus Mark I. The results are quite surprising on the latest server CPUs as it paints a very different picture than VMmark. Get a second opinion on how strong or weak the different CPUs are when they are running heavy-duty virtualized applications on ESX 3.5 Update 4….
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VMmark Scores Investigated: should VMmark be part of your hardware decisions?
Friday, May 8th, 2009
VMmark is supposedly the most important industry standard benchmark today. We investigate the confusing number of different Xeon 5570 VMmark scores and try to understand how relevant VMmark is for the IT professional who is consolidating servers….
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VMmark is supposedly the most important industry standard benchmark today. We investigate the confusing number of different Xeon 5570 VMmark scores and try to understand how relevant VMmark is for the IT professional who is consolidating servers….
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VMware announces vSphere
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
VMware takes its first official steps into true Cloud Computing territory; let’s have a closer look at what to expect….
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VMware takes its first official steps into true Cloud Computing territory; let’s have a closer look at what to expect….
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The Best Server CPUs part 2: the Intel “Nehalem” Xeon X5570
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Better hardware virtualization, a vastly improved server platform, and eight logical cores per CPU: it’s no secret that the Xeon “Nehalem” X5570 is the Formula One car among the server CPUs, but how much faster is it, and more importantly, does it offer return on investment? Find out as we run real world server applications on the newest Xeon….
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Better hardware virtualization, a vastly improved server platform, and eight logical cores per CPU: it’s no secret that the Xeon “Nehalem” X5570 is the Formula One car among the server CPUs, but how much faster is it, and more importantly, does it offer return on investment? Find out as we run real world server applications on the newest Xeon….
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SSD versus Enterprise SAS and SATA disks
Friday, March 20th, 2009
We compare RAID configurations of up to 16 SATA drives, up to eight SAS drives, and up to eight Intel X25-E SLC SSDs in different situations and try to find out which configuration makes the most sense for different enterprise applications. OLTP in particular has our attention: are the expensive SLC SSD drives capable of outperforming SAS RAID…
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We compare RAID configurations of up to 16 SATA drives, up to eight SAS drives, and up to eight Intel X25-E SLC SSDs in different situations and try to find out which configuration makes the most sense for different enterprise applications. OLTP in particular has our attention: are the expensive SLC SSD drives capable of outperforming SAS RAID…
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