HP proliant dl585 g5 Manual De Usuario

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