VMware ESX Server Performance on Dual-Core Dell PowerEdge 2850 Servers
Multi-core processors are designed to improve hardware performance compared to traditional singlecore processors. Dual-core processors from Intel are now available in eighth-generation Dell PowerEdge server models, including the Dell PowerEdge 2850.
To determine the benefits of dual-core processors in a VMware ESX Server software–based virtual computing environment, a team of Dell engineers tested two Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers, one equipped with two single-core processors and another equipped with two dual-core processors. On these servers, the test team deployed VMware ESX Server software and created multiple virtual machines (VMs) to run three different types of enterprise applications: a Microsoft® SQL Server™ database, the NetBench benchmark (simulating a file server), and the LAMP (Linux®, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Web platform.
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