Compaq Leadership in Server Innovations
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... capacity, and chassis with the emergence of standards-based 8-way technology based on the current Pentium Pro architecture provide inadequate 8 Currently, ProLiants 3000, 5500, 6500, and 7000 offer standard Redundant NIC support. 9 q Redundant NIC Technology - No. These systems will provide customers ...headroom to deliver the performance and power of the Deschutes/Slot-2 processor while protecting their users. In addition, Compaq's ProLiant 7000 offers upgrade paths for their existing investment in the industry to correct adjacent double-bit errors. Compaq is industry ...
... capacity, and chassis with the emergence of standards-based 8-way technology based on the current Pentium Pro architecture provide inadequate 8 Currently, ProLiants 3000, 5500, 6500, and 7000 offer standard Redundant NIC support. 9 q Redundant NIC Technology - No. These systems will provide customers ...headroom to deliver the performance and power of the Deschutes/Slot-2 processor while protecting their users. In addition, Compaq's ProLiant 7000 offers upgrade paths for their existing investment in the industry to correct adjacent double-bit errors. Compaq is industry ...
I/O Performance Tuning of Compaq Servers
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... PCI Slot PCI Slot PCI Slot PCI Slot Secondary PCI Bus Figure 3. I/O Performance Tuning of ProLiant servers PCI Slot Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Bridged PCI Bus Systems Peered PCI Bus Systems ProLiant 2500 ProLiant 1200 ProLiant 1600 ProLiant 3000/ ProLiant 5000 ProLiant 6000/ ProLiant 5500 ProLiant 7000 Secondary Secondary Secondary Primary Secondary Secondary Secondary Primary Secondary Secondary Secondary Secondary Primary Secondary...
... PCI Slot PCI Slot PCI Slot PCI Slot Secondary PCI Bus Figure 3. I/O Performance Tuning of ProLiant servers PCI Slot Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Bridged PCI Bus Systems Peered PCI Bus Systems ProLiant 2500 ProLiant 1200 ProLiant 1600 ProLiant 3000/ ProLiant 5000 ProLiant 6000/ ProLiant 5500 ProLiant 7000 Secondary Secondary Secondary Primary Secondary Secondary Secondary Primary Secondary Secondary Secondary Secondary Primary Secondary...
PCI Bus Numbering in a Microsoft Windows NT Environment
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Table 18. Sec Bus ProLiant 3000/ ProLiant 5500 Primary Host to PCI Bridge Slot 4 - Pri Bus Slot 8 - Pri Bus Slot 7 - ...Slot 7- Sec Bus Slot 8 - Pri Bus Secondary Host to PCI Bridge Slot 1 - Sec Bus Slot 4 - The ProLiant 2500 servers consist of the bridged PCI Bus architecture, and all of the others are differences in the PCI bus number detection ... PCI BIOS assigns bus numbers in these servers. Pri Bus Secondary Host to PCI Bridge Slot 3 - Secondary Bus = Sec Bus ProLiant 5000 Primary Host to PCI Bridge Slot 1 - Sec Bus Slot 10 - Pri Bus Slot 3 - Sec Bus Slot 8 Sec...
Table 18. Sec Bus ProLiant 3000/ ProLiant 5500 Primary Host to PCI Bridge Slot 4 - Pri Bus Slot 8 - Pri Bus Slot 7 - ...Slot 7- Sec Bus Slot 8 - Pri Bus Secondary Host to PCI Bridge Slot 1 - Sec Bus Slot 4 - The ProLiant 2500 servers consist of the bridged PCI Bus architecture, and all of the others are differences in the PCI bus number detection ... PCI BIOS assigns bus numbers in these servers. Pri Bus Secondary Host to PCI Bridge Slot 3 - Secondary Bus = Sec Bus ProLiant 5000 Primary Host to PCI Bridge Slot 1 - Sec Bus Slot 10 - Pri Bus Slot 3 - Sec Bus Slot 8 Sec...
Performance of Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 on Compaq ProLiant Servers
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444A/0696 WHITE PAPER (cont.) 1...1 Pentium/100 PENTIUM/100 EXCHANGE SERVER HARDWARE CONFIGURATION Machine Class Compaq ProLiant 4500 Processor Subsystem 1,2,4 Pentium/100, 512 KByte L2 cache System Memory 128 Mbytes Disk Subsystem Integrated Fast Wide SCSI-2 controller Pagefile ...data as well. Pentium/100 Exchange Server hardware configuration LoadSim Score vs. # Users ProLiant 4500, Pentium/100 - 512KB L2 3000 (lower score is better) 2500 Score 2000 1P 1500 2P 4P 1000 500 0 300 500 600 800 1000 1200 Number of a second CPU because Exchange is a good example of ...
444A/0696 WHITE PAPER (cont.) 1...1 Pentium/100 PENTIUM/100 EXCHANGE SERVER HARDWARE CONFIGURATION Machine Class Compaq ProLiant 4500 Processor Subsystem 1,2,4 Pentium/100, 512 KByte L2 cache System Memory 128 Mbytes Disk Subsystem Integrated Fast Wide SCSI-2 controller Pagefile ...data as well. Pentium/100 Exchange Server hardware configuration LoadSim Score vs. # Users ProLiant 4500, Pentium/100 - 512KB L2 3000 (lower score is better) 2500 Score 2000 1P 1500 2P 4P 1000 500 0 300 500 600 800 1000 1200 Number of a second CPU because Exchange is a good example of ...
Performance of Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 on Compaq ProLiant Servers
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...Figure 3. In the case of going from 2P to system overhead. Pentium/133 Exchange Server hardware configuration LoadSim Score vs. # Users ProLiant 4500, Pentium/133 - 2MB L2 3000 (lower score is a tradeoff in adding a CPU when the system nisot processor constrained. System requests and context switches increase substantially ...little benefit in adding CPUs to the processor subsystem due to 4P the response time improves very little until you get above 800 users, which is where 2P becomes processor constrained. • There is better) 2500 Score 2000 1P 1500 2P 1000 500 0 300 ...
...Figure 3. In the case of going from 2P to system overhead. Pentium/133 Exchange Server hardware configuration LoadSim Score vs. # Users ProLiant 4500, Pentium/133 - 2MB L2 3000 (lower score is a tradeoff in adding a CPU when the system nisot processor constrained. System requests and context switches increase substantially ...little benefit in adding CPUs to the processor subsystem due to 4P the response time improves very little until you get above 800 users, which is where 2P becomes processor constrained. • There is better) 2500 Score 2000 1P 1500 2P 1000 500 0 300 ...
Performance of Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 on Compaq ProLiant Servers
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...of the L2 cache combined with subsecond response time. Pentium/166 Exchange Server hardware configuration LoadSim Score vs. # Users ProLiant 4500, Pentium/166 - 2MB L2 3000 (lower score is less quick to that a single Pentium/166 easily outperforms two or four Pentium/100 CPUs. •...) 2500 Score 2000 1P 1500 2P 1000 500 0 300 500 800 1000 Number of the Pentium/166. 444A/0696 WHITE PAPER (cont.) 1...4 Pentium/166 PENTIUM/166 EXCHANGE SERVER HARDWARE CONFIGURATION Machine Class Compaq ProLiant 4500 Processor Subsystem 1,2 Pentium/166, 2 Mbyte L2 cache System Memory...
...of the L2 cache combined with subsecond response time. Pentium/166 Exchange Server hardware configuration LoadSim Score vs. # Users ProLiant 4500, Pentium/166 - 2MB L2 3000 (lower score is less quick to that a single Pentium/166 easily outperforms two or four Pentium/100 CPUs. •...) 2500 Score 2000 1P 1500 2P 1000 500 0 300 500 800 1000 Number of the Pentium/166. 444A/0696 WHITE PAPER (cont.) 1...4 Pentium/166 PENTIUM/166 EXCHANGE SERVER HARDWARE CONFIGURATION Machine Class Compaq ProLiant 4500 Processor Subsystem 1,2 Pentium/166, 2 Mbyte L2 cache System Memory...
Performance of Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 on Compaq ProLiant Servers
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... attributed to better performance of the performance benefit here could be supported with Pentium/133 and Pentium/166. 444A/0696 WHITE PAPER (cont.) 1...6 3000 LoadSim Score vs. # Users ProLiant 5000, Pentium Pro/166 - 512KB 2500 2000 1P 1500 Score 1000 500 0 500 1000 Number of the different processor subsystems examined. However, the...
... attributed to better performance of the performance benefit here could be supported with Pentium/133 and Pentium/166. 444A/0696 WHITE PAPER (cont.) 1...6 3000 LoadSim Score vs. # Users ProLiant 5000, Pentium Pro/166 - 512KB 2500 2000 1P 1500 Score 1000 500 0 500 1000 Number of the different processor subsystems examined. However, the...
Performance of Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 on Compaq ProLiant Servers
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444A/0696 WHITE PAPER (cont.) 2...0 PENTIUM PRO/166 EXCHANGE SERVER HARDWARE CONFIGURATION Machine Class Compaq ProLiant 5000 Processor Subsystem 1 Pentium Pro/166, 512 Kbyte L2 cache System Memory 128/ 256 Mbytes Disk Subsystem Integrated Fast Wide SCSI-2 controller Pagefile and executables ... In this case, the IS buffers were increased by 128 Mbytes (lower score is better) 1000 Number of RAM to the configuration. Score 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 500 LoadSim Score vs. # Users Effect of increasing IS Buffer by adding 128 Mbytes of Users 1500 39 MB 167...
444A/0696 WHITE PAPER (cont.) 2...0 PENTIUM PRO/166 EXCHANGE SERVER HARDWARE CONFIGURATION Machine Class Compaq ProLiant 5000 Processor Subsystem 1 Pentium Pro/166, 512 Kbyte L2 cache System Memory 128/ 256 Mbytes Disk Subsystem Integrated Fast Wide SCSI-2 controller Pagefile and executables ... In this case, the IS buffers were increased by 128 Mbytes (lower score is better) 1000 Number of RAM to the configuration. Score 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 500 LoadSim Score vs. # Users Effect of increasing IS Buffer by adding 128 Mbytes of Users 1500 39 MB 167...