ProLiant servers give customers more value, performance for less cost
April2010
Executive summary
The HP ProLiant servers have done it again – providing the lowest cost in performance – this time with the new ProLiant DL385 G7. With 705,652tpmC @ $.58USD/tpmC, the ProLiant DL385 G7 took the number one,twosocket result for price/performance on the TPC-C benchmark.
This price point was delivered by a system that, with AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors and DDR3 memory options, providesa solution for real cost-effectiveness and high and fast performance for high throughput environments.
Key Take Aways:
- #1 2-socket price/performance
- Result is in the TOP FIVE OVERALL for price/performance
- HP holds NINE of the top TEN for 2-socket price/performance
- Meets customers’ price requirements
What this means for customers
With the HP Converged Infrastructure as the building block for HP ProLiant servers, HP will simplify how networks are built, managed, and secured to help clients reduce complexity, increase productivity, and use more of their network capacity. By providing clients an open, standards-based choice to an industry that previously had limited options, HP will breakthrough the deadlock that has driven decades of complexity and rising costs. With this Converged Infrastructure solution and the latest generation of HP technology, the ProLiant DL385 G7 with 12-core AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors presents a compelling business plan that delivers the optimal balance of performance, energy efficiency, and value.
Business transformation with HP Converged Infrastructure:HP is at an inflection point where our technology is coming together to help our clients build the data center of the future, and it will be based on the Converged Infrastructure. HP is uniquely positioned to build the Converged Infrastructure because HP is the only company to offer a full portfolio of standards-based, integrated solutions, and services developed specifically to solve the complexities of the data center. HP is also the only company that can deliver a single common, modular architecture across the data center from x86 to Superdome. This means that companies can use the same architecture to run and manage multiple workloads across servers, storage and networking. This significantly reduces complexity, resource requirements, and costs.
Why the ProLiant DL385 is the world’s best-selling AMD Opteron rack server
The HP ProLiant DL385, also known as the versatile, dependable workhorse, is the world's best-selling AMD Opteron processor-basedrack server, maintaining its dominant share in the 2U, 2P market with new G7 benefits in its rack server format that allows for greater system efficiency, flexibility, and scalability.
Key Benefits
- Eight- and 12-core AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors, the x86 industry’s first 12- and 8-core processors, pave the way for the most demanding server workloads to keep pace with rapidly increasing complexity. These additional cores are matched with next-generation AMD Direct Connect Architecture 2.0, providing 4 memory channels per CPU and HyperTransport™ 3.0 (HT3) technology to deliver up to double the performance for demanding scale-out applications and virtualization projects
- Ideal for virtualization with up to 24 DIMMs and four NIC ports
- Industry-leading management enables powerful administration
- Engineered for reliability and ease of ownership
HP ProLiant servers dominated the two-socket price/performance results for the TPC-C benchmark. Dell was #11. In addition, the TOP TEN overall price/performance results show that HP took FIVE out of the ten positions.**
Table 1. The ProLiant DL385 G7 two-socket server is more cost-effective than any competitor*
Sponsor / System / TpmC / Price/TpmC / System Availability / Database / Date Submitted
/ HP ProLiant DL385G7 / 705,652 / 0.60USD / 9/1/2010 / MS SQL Server 2005 Ent. x64 Ed. SP3 / 4/8/2010
/ IBM Power 780 Server Model 9179-MHB / 1,200,011 / 0.69 USD / 10/13/2010 / IBM DB2 9.5 / 4/13/2010
/ HP ProLiant DL370 G6 / 631,766 / 1.08USD / 3/30/2009 / Oracle Database 11g Standard Ed. 1 / 3/30/2009
/ HP ProLiant DL370G6 / 661,475 / 1.16USD / 2/1/2010 / MS SQL Server 2005 x64 Ent. Ed. SP2 / 2/1/2010
/ ProLiant ML370 G5 / 273,666 / 1.38USD / 11/12/2007 / Oracle Database 10g Standard Ed. 1 / 11/9/2007
/ HP ProLiant ML370G5 X5460 QC / 275,149 / 1.44USD / 1/7/2008 / MS SQL Server 2005 x64 Ent. Ed. SP2 / 1/7/2008
/ HP ProLiant ML370G5 X5365 QC / 251,300 / 1.63USD / 9/5/2007 / MS SQL Server 2005 x64 Ent. Ed. SP2 / 9/5/2007
/ HP ProLiant ML370-G4-1M 3.6Ghz 2P / 68,010 / 1.80USD / 11/1/2004 / MS SQL Server 2000 Ent. Ed. SP3 / 11/1/2004
/ HP Integrity rx2600 - Itanium2/1.3 GHz-2p/2c / 51,506 / 1.81USD / 9/29/2004 / Oracle Database 10g Standard Ed. / 9/29/2004
/ HP ProLiant ML370G5 SAS/2.66GHz QC / 240,737 / 1.85USD / 2/1/2007 / MS SQL Server 2005 x64 Ent. Ed. SP1 / 11/13/2006
/ HP ProLiant DL385-G1 16GB/2.6GHz/2P / 71,413 / 2.15USD / 2/14/2005 / MS SQL Server 2000 Ent. Ed. SP3 / 2/11/2005
/ PowerEdge 2800/2/3.6GHz/2M / 63,646 / 2.28USD / 5/10/2005 / MS SQL Server 2000 Ent. Ed. SP3 / 5/10/2005
*Top Ten 2-socket price/performance results **
Benchmark Configurations
The HP ProLiant DL385 G7 was configured with two12-core AMD Opteron 6176 SE 2.3GHz processors(2 processors/24 cores /24 threads), and 256GB PC3-8500R main memory. The server was runningMicrosoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition x64 SP3 database and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition operating system. The DL385 G7 serversalso utilized a SMART Array P410i SAS RAIDController, a SMART Array P411 SAS RAID Controller, and 2 X 72GB 15K SFF SAS drives in internal bays. The system was connected to an HP 5642 Rack containing 5 xD2700 StorageWorks Enclosures with 10 x 120GB SSD drives and 115 x 60GB SSD drives, 2 x MSA 70 StorageWorks Enclosures with 5 x 300GB 10K SFF SAS drives each, 1 x MSA 2324fc StorageWorks Enclosure with 16 X 146GB 15K SFF SAS 6G Drives, and 1 x MSA 70 StorageWorks Enclosure with 24 x 300GB 10K SFF SAS drives. System availability date is 09/01/10.
Bottom Line
As the leading 2-socket, 2U AMDOpteron processor-based rack server, the ProLiant DL385 G7 is designed with virtualization in mind, yet flexible and expandable to support any business need in many environments from corporate datacenters to sophisticated SMBs. The #1 TPC-C results are proof points that the ProLiant DL385 G7 is the ideal solution to meet business needs.
About the TPC-C benchmark
The TPC-C benchmark simulates an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) database environment. Theperformance of a system is measured when the system is tasked with processing numerous short businesstransactions concurrently. The TPC-C workload simulates a tiered environment wherein users interact with webpages to enter business transactions. Transactions are entered by simulated users, business logic and queuingof the transactions are handled by a middle tier server, and then the transactions are passed to the TPC-Cdatabase server for processing. For more details, seeftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/c-products/servers/benchmarks/HP_ProLiant_tpcc_Overview.pdf.
TPC Disclosure
A full disclosure report describing these benchmark results has been filed with the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) and is available upon request. This report describes the benchmark HW and SW configuration in detail, provides costs, and lists the code actually used to perform the test. Similar reports from other vendors are the source of the price/performance comparisons provided above. Summaries of all tests are published each month by the TPC and on the Internet on the TPC's World Wide Web Server. With these benchmarks, customers can objectively compare the performance of different vendors' servers in specific areas. Results as of 04-15-10.
For more information check out:
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TPC-C details:
© 2010 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. ProLiant is a trademark of Hewlett- Packard Development Company. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. TPC-C is a trademark of the Transaction Processing Performance Council.April 2010
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