Huawei’s FusionServer 2288H V3 was ranked first in SPEC VIRT_SC® 2013, according to the latest results released by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), a highly respected industry benchmarking organization. This gives Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, a head start in 2017.
SPEC VIRT_SC® 2013 is a performance benchmark designed by SPEC to measure the performance of servers used in virtualized server consolidation. It measures the end-to-end performance of all system components, including the hardware, virtualization platform, and the virtualized guest operating system and application software. The benchmark rankings are widely recognized by customers and hardware providers.
The SPEC VIRT_SC® 2013 benchmark evaluates server capabilities by simulating systems running virtual machines (VMs) with typical server applications deployed. It combines multiple benchmark scenarios such as SPECjApp® 2004 (application server), SPECMail® 2008 (mail server), SPECWeb® 2005 (web server), and SPEC INT® 2006 (batch server), creating a hybrid testing scenario that closely replicates real-world scenarios.
SPEC VIRT_SC® 2013 includes the number of VMs tested and quality of service (QoS) score in each test result. SPEC VIRT_SC®2013 evaluates the overall operating performance of virtualized applications, and has better compatibility, openness, and objectiveness (based on QoS criteria) than other virtualization tests.
The latest SPEC VIRT_SC® 2013 tests Huawei’s FusionServer 2288H V3 with Huawei's FusionSphere V100R005C10U1 virtualization software installed. A total of 26 tiles (sets of VMs) run on the FusionServer 2288H V3. Each tile contains 5 types of server VMs: application server, infrastructure server, web server, mail server, and batch server. The infrastructure server provides network disks for a web server, and a database server provides the database service. 4 tiles share one database server, therefore 26 tiles require 7 database servers. This means that in total, 137 VMs are used (5 types of VMs x 26 tiles + 7 VMs for servers = 137 total VMs).
In full load mode, the FusionServer 2288H V3 secured a QoS score of 2366 achieved by 137 VMs running on a single system. This is the highest score among all servers powered by Intel® Xeon® E5-2699 v4 CPUs.
FusionServer 2288H V3 supports up to 44 cores and is powered by Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v4 series CPUs that are equipped with the newest 14 nm processors. It also holds up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs for a maximum total memory capacity of 1.5 TB, and uses IOPS- and bandwidth-wise NVMe SSDs as local storage for flexible configuration and easier scalability. All these features make the server an ideal universal computing platform for IT infrastructure applications.
Qiu Long, President, IT Server Product Line, Huawei, said: "More and more traditional IT applications are moving to the cloud. Huawei continues to innovate server design and technologies for optimal performance. We stay ahead of ever-changing customer requirements and build high-performance universal servers with the perfect balance of computing, memory, and hard disk configurations. Our servers are ideal computing platforms for IT transformation. Our outstanding performance in SPEC VIRT_SC®2013 serves as evidence of our continuous efforts in innovation and technology. In the future, our cutting-edge servers will help customers fully accelerate their virtualization of traditional IT applications."
According to a report released by industry research firm Gartner1, Huawei ranked in the top 3 globally in server shipments as of 2016 Q3 (excluding tower servers), and boasted the fastest growth rate. Huawei servers are used by more than 5000 customers across the world in different industries including the public sector, Internet, telecom, energy, finance, transport, healthcare, education, media, and manufacturing.
