Nehalem VMmark results

It’s a race for the server vendors to post their Nehalem system results, but just took a look.  You can see them here:

http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html

If you look in the 8 core systems, you can see them there.   Look like Cisco has the lead by a nose :-)

Hey – I wonder what storage is used in 4 out of the top 5 results?   :-)   (heck, I wonder who Inspur and Intel used – oh, that’s nice!  thanks guys!)

Comments

[TimC]

The exact same storage that doesn't appear at all in the high end 32core benchmarks?

[Justin]

Two things I noticed.

The only systems that were faster than the Nehalem were the 32 core systems (8 processors by 4 cores). That is some serious computing power in the Nehalem chips.

Second item, only Cisco was using a CX4. You need to get these other vendors with more updated hardware.

[Chad Sakac]

@TimC - that's a valid comment - but Justin is right - the sweet spot are absolutely in the two socket systems, and the Nehalem's are spanking everything else.

Look - I wasn't trying to make a big point on the storage piece, it was just a little humor. Frankly VMmark places no material load on the storage or the ESX I/O stack (which clearly we ARE doing in the other tests I've recently pointed out). I'm not surprised that HP didn't use EMC :-)

[TimC]

And I'm not surprised Dell did :)