Test methodology

HP continues to upgrade existing HP ProLiant servers and introduce new servers to meet particular business needs. To help customers select the appropriate server for their particular HP SBC environment, HP publishes this and other performance characterizations so that you can compare individual server performance and scalability.

This section describes how HP determined the optimal number of users supported by an HP ProLiant BL685c G5 server blade with the Opteron Processor Model 8356 (2.3 GHz) – henceforth referred to as the HP ProLiant BL685c G5 server blade – in a 64-bit test harness.

Important:

As with any laboratory testing, the performance metrics quoted in this paper are idealized. In a production environment, these metrics may be impacted by a variety of factors.

HP recommends proof-of-concept testing in a non-production environment using the actual target application as a matter of best practice for all application deployments. Testing the actual target application in a test/staging environment identical to, but isolated from, the production environment is the most effective way to characterize system behavior.

This section provides more information on test tools, user profiles and test scenarios.

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