04/09 HP ProLiant BL685c G6: #1 4-socket blade virtualization performance on VMmark Benchmark The new HP ProLiant BL685c G6 with new 2.9-GHz Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors is the highest performing server blade on the VMmark benchmark with a score of 20.87@14 tiles.
With this result, customers have the potential to achieve up to 2,688 Virtual Machines per 42U industry standard rack.
04/09 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 earns #1 overall 4 socket virtualization performance leadership
The HP ProLiant DL585 G5 is the highest performing 4-socket server on the VMmark benchmark with a VMmark score of 22.11@15 tiles. This result defeated all 4-socket rack server competitors Dell, IBM, and Sun. The HP ProLiant DL585 G5 is also the first four-socket server to run with the VMware ESX 4.0 Virtualization Platform. In addition, the HP ProLiant DL585 showed an increase in scalability performance compared to previous generation technology.
