Dell is posting VMmark results for their Poweredge servers
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Dell has recently measured various configurations of two- and four-socket PowerEdge servers running VMware ESX Server 3 using a beta version of the VMmark benchmark. The graphs shows a 4-socket PowerEdge 6950 with dual-core AMD Opteron processors has 57% higher virtualization performance than a 2-socket PowerEdge 2950 with dual-core Intel Xeon series 5100 processors. The 2-socket PowerEdge 2900 with new quad-core Intel Xeon 5300 series processors shows 51% better performance. Equally impressive, all three 8-core servers were able to support the same number of heavily-loaded virtual machines.
Read the full report here
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3:43 pm on February 17th, 2007
I don’t think it’s right to compare Xeon and Opteron. Opterons are much faster
8:36 am on February 27th, 2007
@mente:
Clearly you havent read the chart? Opterons at 4×2 beats Intel at 2×4 but only by a very small margin. So you go buy your 4 socket server while I play with my DL380.
That is, until barcelona.
9:48 am on August 3rd, 2007
What a totally brainless comment – how do you know Opteron is faster if you don’t compare them? Duh.