Guest blog written by Andrew Hawthorn - Product Line Manager, HP BladeSystem
The bar on server scalability, efficiency and performance has been raised with the introduction of the new AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series processor, available on ProLiant G7 servers and blades. Powered by the world’s first 16-core x86 processor, these cost-effective server solutions are ideal for a variety of demanding workloads including virtualization.
HP also announced the top blade and 2-node AMD Opteron processor-based VMmark result on the four-socket ProLiant BL685c G7 server blade, the first result running VMware vSphere 5.0. With a score of 12.77 @ 15 tiles, this score shows a 28.9% increase in performance over the prior generation AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor, and beats competitive blade results by more than 2X the virtual machines.
With an amazing 64 total processing cores, the BL685c G7 delivers excellent compute performance in a bladed form factor. A large memory footprint of up to 1 TB of DDR3 and high performance SmartArray controller to support up to 2 TB of local storage round out this powerful offering. Two dual-port 10Gb HP FlexFabric Converged Network Adapters deliver plenty of networking bandwidth and the benefits of converged data and storage fabrics for significantly improved ROI.
This new 16-core processor now gives IT organizations the ability to run more VMs per server, and the ability to create more robust VM workloads, with cost-effective scalable ProLiant servers.
To learn more about how HP ProLiant servers powered by the AMD Opteron processor can help you meet your business challenges, visit http://www.hp.com/go/proliant/amd.
