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Lenovo System x3950 X6 demonstrates leadership enterprise class performance for virtualization environments with the world-record SPECvirt_sc2013 result.
This document summarizes the SPECvirt benchmark result for the System x3950 X6 that was published on 8 November, 2016. The document lists the result, summarizes the major components of the configuration under test, and provides the link to the relevant benchmark organization’s web site for details about the result.
Introduction
Lenovo System x3950 X6 demonstrates leadership enterprise class performance for virtualization environments with the world-record SPECvirt_sc2013 result.
November 8, 2016 ... Lenovo delivers leadership server consolidation performance on the SPECvirt_sc2013 virtualization benchmark with the publication of the leadership 8-socket score.
The Lenovo System x3950 X6 delivered the following overall SPECvirt_sc2013 performance score:
- 8284 @ 462 VMs
SPECvirt_sc2013 is the second-generation SPEC benchmark for evaluating the virtualization performance of datacenter server consolidation, including enterprise class workloads such as virtualized SMP application server VMs and SMP database VMs, as well as dynamic workload levels across many workload types and VM instances.
The Lenovo System x3950 X6 server was configured with the new generation Intel Xeon Processor E7-8890 v4 (2.2 GHz with 60 MB L3 cache per processor—8 chips/192 cores/24 cores per chip), 4096 GB (4 TB) of TruDDR4 memory, and 8 Intel X520 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Ethernet adapters. The operating system was Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.
The Lenovo System x3950 X6 is a flagship 8-socket 8U rack server designed for maximum performance and uptime for business-critical applications and cloud deployments. The x3950 X6 solution provides a powerful infrastructure platform for running enterprise class VMs in a datacenter environment - one that is ideal for customers who are looking for reliability, manageability, and scalability with the flexibility to run Windows or Linux. Integrating hardware, software and memory advancements, the X6 enterprise servers are designed to be FAST, AGILE AND RESILIENT.
With system support for up to 192 CPU cores, 12 TB of system memory, and greater than 200 TB of flash storage, the x3950 X6 is designed to deliver leadership performance and scalability to power traditional databases as well as new in memory database and analytic solutions. Its scalable design enables customers to virtualize both high performance databases and applications on the same server to deliver leadership solution performance.
X6 servers deliver FAST application performance – with the latest generation Intel Xeon processors and TruDDR4 memory, X6 system consistently deliver world record and leadership performance across multiple recognized industry benchmarks.
The adaptive modular rack design of x3950 X6 is AGILE. It enables the design of fit-for-purpose solutions and the ability to realize infrastructure cost savings by hosting multiple generations of technology in a single platform—without compromising performance or capacity.
X6 platforms enable customers to:
- Configure the server to fit the unique requirements of specific applications and workloads and add, modify or upgrade X6 platforms easily with selectable modular book components;
- Scale capacity and performance from 4-socket to 8-socket to deliver nearly twice the performance for growing applications without creating IT sprawl;
- Capitalize on agile system design that provides the ability to host multiple generations of technology in a single server.
X6 enterprise platforms are RESILIENT. Through differentiated X6 self-healing technology, the x3950 X6 maximizes uptime by proactively identifying potential failures and transparently taking necessary corrective actions. Unique Lenovo features proactively protect applications from corrupt pages in memory; allow the platform to maintain access to networking and storage and server management during a processor failure; enable concurrent updating of the system firmware with no impact on application performance or availability; and enable the creation and management of policies to maintain high availability of virtual machines. These built-in technologies drive the outstanding system availability and help ensure the uninterrupted application performance needed to host business-critical applications.
The result of more than 15 years of innovation beyond industry standards, X6 platforms help reduce costs and complexity and deliver the breakthrough performance and capacity that enterprise applications demand.
Results referenced are current as of September 15, 2016. Result summary available at https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2016q3/virt_sc2013-20160830-00062-perf.html
To view all SPECvirt_sc2013 performance results visit the SPEC results page at http://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/specvirt_sc2013_perf.html
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