NEC Enterprise Server Breaks Virtualization Performance Record
NEC Corp. and NEC Corp. of America announced that their newest enterprise server, the NEC Express5800/A1160, has established a world record in overall VMmark(TM) performance benchmark results.
VMmark(TM) is the industry's first virtualization benchmark, developed by VMware(R), Inc., to measure the performance and scalability of multiple enterprise applications running in virtualized servers so that customers can compare different virtualization platforms. The metrics are defined in "score @ tiles." "Score" is referred as a throughput performance metric and "tiles" are the consolidation capacity of the system.
The record-breaking score, 34.05@24tiles, was achieved using the NEC Express5800/A1160 server, which was configured with 8 sockets populated with the Intel(R) Xeon(R) X7460 processors, powered by VMware ESX(TM) 4.0.
The NEC Express5800/A1160 features state-of-the-art NEC server technology with an up-to-4 nodes scalable building block architecture using the HSI technology to connect the blocks along with enhanced reliability, availability and serviceability, all of which are based on long-standing rich heritage of NEC mainframe, supercomputer and Intel(R) Itanium(R) server products.
"We're delighted to join VMmark benchmark results as another World Record Debut," said Takayuki Noguchi, General Manager, Enterprise Server Division of NEC Corporation. "The VMmark performance world record demonstrates that NEC's advanced server technology together along with innovative VMware ESX 4.0 software provides industry leading performance and scalability even with multiple heterogeneous application workloads on a virtual infrastructure. We're confident the NEC Express5800/A1160 is the ideal choice for mission-critical virtualization platforms like server-consolidation or cloud computing platforms with multiple virtual machines."
"Intel congratulates NEC on continuing to raise the performance bar," said Shannon Poulin, Director of Xeon Platform Marketing, Server Platforms Group, Intel Corporation. "NEC's ability to leverage the performance of the Intel Xeon X7460 processor to establish new world records with their scalable 8-Socket+ systems is testament to their development team and our close working relationship."
"Not only is NEC's VMmark result an outstanding testament to our server's performance in virtual environments, it is a continuation of other outstanding achievements, including leadership in OLTP performance benchmarks *5," said Marc Hafner, vice president of Servers and System Software Division, IT Platform Group, NEC Corporation of America. "These benchmarks show a strong track record for NEC's Express5800/A1160 Enterprise server. NEC customers can feel confident they are getting top performance combined with high reliability."
Taking advantage of the server's robust scalable architecture, high consolidation capacity, and high performance, NEC is promoting the NEC Express5800/A1160 server as a reliable virtualization platform.
Published Result
VMmark score: 34.05@24 tiles
Availability Date: July 31, 2009
Measured System
Server: EC Express5800/A1160
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor X7460 (2.66GHz/16MB L3 cache)
Number of processors: 8
Number of processor cores: 48
Number of processor threads: 48
System Memory: 12 GGB
Data Storage: NEC Storage S2500
Virtualization Software:VMware ESX(TM) 4.0
NEC Express5800 series of servers are part of NEC's Dynamic IT Infrastructure-a solution that includes servers, storage, virtual desktop solutions, and system software that are smart, flexible, adaptive to change, scalable, resilient, and continuously evolving.
Along with NEC's broad range of services-the NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure provides an ideal platform for virtualization, consolidation and business continuity and is ideal for driving greater value and efficiencies in solutions for physical security, law enforcement, emergency response, travel and entertainment, education, high performance computing, and business. This type of infrastructure allows IT organizations to move forward confidently and meet changing and growing business needs in an efficient manner.