Nehalem heated up the Virtualization
Posted by craig 
- on April 6th, 2009 in Announcement, Data Center, Industry News, Virtualization | 2 Comments »
As we noticed that all servers vendors like HP, DELL and IBMÂ had launched their latest generation of servers to support the Intel Nehalem which also name as Intel Xeon 5500 series high performing virtualization chipset. I had read up couples of review from the expert which provide some useful information for reference purpose.
Both articles talk a little bit Nehalem. Personally, I will be very excited to take a test on this and perform the test comparison within the current quad core. VMETC did mention as it will able to support up to 21 VMs per core, and this is a real amazing number to be achieved. Nehalem quad core will able to replace 9 single core xeon processors with 20 % energy saving. This will boost up the CPU performance and reduce the power consumption.
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Thank you for your posting.
Please post your comments after having tested with Nehalem server.
While the previous one Penryn was a die shrink of an existing architecture, Nehalem is a brand new architecture built on the same 45nm process as Penryn.
Though Nehalem is a new architecture, it is still built on the same 45nm process that debuted with Penryn, it provides a high performance and an excellent power usage
Would you please let me know whether the energy saving is 20% or 30%.
I just got the DELL R710 equip with Intel Nahelam 5530 this week and I managed to setup the vsphere 4 on it today. Still need more time to further test out the performance and power consumption. But I found something different as the chip itself contain hypertrading technology as it showed in vCenter. Will need to find out more about this later