HP BL685c G5 manual

Performance characterization of HP ProLiant BL685c G5 with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors (2.3 GHz) in a 64-bit HP Server Based Computing environment

Executive summary...............................................................................................................................	3
Audience ........................................................................................................................................	3
Introduction.........................................................................................................................................	3
AMD Opteron processors .................................................................................................................	4
AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management ........................................................................................	5
Test methodology.................................................................................................................................	6
Test tools.........................................................................................................................................	7
More information .........................................................................................................................	7
User profiles ....................................................................................................................................	7
Test scenarios ..................................................................................................................................	8
Performance and scalability metrics ................................................................................................	8
Test topology.......................................................................................................................................	9
Configurations ...............................................................................................................................	10
HP SBC server summary..................................................................................................................	11
Performance test results.......................................................................................................................	12
Perfmon values ..............................................................................................................................	13
Canary times .................................................................................................................................	14
Test analysis summary ........................................................................................................................	15
Appendix A – HP BladeSystem............................................................................................................	16
HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure ....................................................................................................	16
Management .............................................................................................................................	17
Options.....................................................................................................................................	17
HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure ....................................................................................................	17
Performance ..............................................................................................................................	18
Management .............................................................................................................................	18
Options.....................................................................................................................................	18
Appendix B – Using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions.........................................................	19
Historical scalability limitations ........................................................................................................	19
More information .......................................................................................................................	20