Performance of HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors
(2.5 GHz) in a 64-bit HP SBC environment
Executive summary............................................................................................................................... 2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 3
AMD Opteron processors ................................................................................................................. 3
AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management ........................................................................................ 4
Test methodology................................................................................................................................. 4
Test tools......................................................................................................................................... 5
More information ......................................................................................................................... 5
User profiles .................................................................................................................................... 6
Test scenarios .................................................................................................................................. 7
Performance and scalability metrics ................................................................................................ 7
Test topology....................................................................................................................................... 8
Configurations ................................................................................................................................. 9
HP SBC server summary.................................................................................................................. 10
Performance test results....................................................................................................................... 11
Perfmon values .............................................................................................................................. 12
Canary times................................................................................................................................. 13
Test analysis summary ........................................................................................................................ 14
Recommendations.............................................................................................................................. 14
Using BBWC ................................................................................................................................. 15
Enabling write cache .................................................................................................................. 15
Summary ...................................................................................................................................... 15
Appendix A – Using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions ........................................................ 16
Historical scalability limitations ........................................................................................................ 16
More information ....................................................................................................................... 16
Appendix B – SBC solution sizing........................................................................................................ 17
Online sizer tool ............................................................................................................................ 17
For more information.......................................................................................................................... 19
