Cisco, HP, Fujitsu Score VMware Benchmark Records

By Wolfgang Gruener August 24, 2012 4:28 PM

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Results of a recent VMmark benchmark indicate an acceleration in the virtualization performance race.

HP and Fujitsu recently posted the results of a recent VMmark benchmark indicating an acceleration in the virtualization performance race. Also of note is that both outran a Cisco record that was announced just two weeks earlier.

Using an HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8 equipped with four 8-core Xeon E5-4650 CPUs (in 2 nodes, 64 core total) as well as a flash-boot storage configuration consisting of four internal and 24 external disks (400 GB SAS SSDs and 146 Gb SAS HDDs) with a total capacity of 10 TB, the system crossed the finish line at a score 18.27 at 18 tiles.

Fujitsu has a slight edge with a Primergy RX500 S7 system, also based on four 8-core Xeon E5-4650 CPUs in 2 nodes, but with a total of 192 physical disks - 168 300 GB Seagate SAS HDDs, four 450 Seagate SAS HDDs, and 20 200 GB Zeus SAS SSDs for a total capacity of 56.4 TB. This Primergy configuration scored 18.68 at 18 tiles.

Both scores trumped a just two-week old record set by Cisco, which used its UCS B200 M3 blade server to arrive at a score of 11.30 at 10 tiles.

Wolfgang Gruener is a contributor to Tom's IT Pro. He is currently principal analyst at Ndicio Research, a market analysis firm that focuses on cloud computing and disruptive technologies, and maintains the conceivablytech.com blog. An 18-year veteran in IT journalism and market research, he previously published TG Daily and was managing editor of Tom's Hardware news, which he grew from a link collection in the early 2000s into one of the most comprehensive and trusted technology news sources.