The Sun Fire X4270 server running VMware ESX 4.0 OS earned an excellent result on the virtualization benchmark VMmark from VMware for 8 core platforms. The Sun x64 server delivers near linear scalability under the heavy load conditions of the VMmark benchmark, whose purpose is to measure performance and scalability of a pre-established mix of workloads (a Tile), which allows comparisons among similar platforms.

The Sun Fire X4270 server powered by two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon X5570 processors achieved a score of 24.18 @ 17 tiles, supporting 102 fully fledged Virtual Machine instances (17 Tiles), reported the BestPerf blog.

Comparatively, the Sun Fire X4270 followed the Fujitsu RX200 S5, which recorded 24.20, HP BL490 G6 received 24.24, Dell PowerEdge R710 had 24.27, Lenovo R525 G2 scored 24.35 and HP BL490c G6 earned 24.54. All systems ran 17 tiles.

A Tile consists of 6 fixed workload applications, each running in its own Virtual Machine (VM) (6 VMs per Tile) such as Mail, Java, Web, Database and File Serving plus a standby server (spare Virtual Machine).

VMmark benchmark provides two key performance metrics:

• 1. The number of Tiles supported by a system, which is an indication of how many systems/applications can be consolidated on one platform (the higher the number of tiles supported the higher the number of consolidated systems).

• 2. The score, which is an overall measure of the amount of work that is accomplished by all the Tiles in the system at a specified level of service of all the workloads during a benchmark run. The score or amount of work is a composition of Actions/minute (Mail server), New Orders/minute (Java server), Access/minute (web server), Commits/minute(Database), MB/sec (file server).

The Sun Fire X4270 server achieved its competitive result with a simple I/O configuration consisting of one single port 10Gbe network card, one 4Gb dual port FC HBA and one SAS/SATA combo HBA for supporting 8 internal SATA SSDs.

Customers can consolidate several Solaris 10 OS, Linux and Microsoft Windows applications onto a single server using VMware Virtual Infrastructure technology, and consolidate multiple applications onto the Sun Fire X4270 server to cut cost and complexity, increase agility, and reduce data center power and cooling, BestPerf notes.

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