Cisco’s server power engineering team recently compared the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis with B200 M3 blade servers against HP’s BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure and HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blade servers.
The results weren’t surprising internally, but they might surprise you. The main findings were:
Efficiency
The Cisco UCS 5108 enclosure configured with Cisco UCS B200 M3 blades achieved a 6.3% higher performance-to-power ratio than the HP BladeSystem c7000 with HP ProLiant BL460c blades, using with similarly configured hardware, BIOS, and OS settings.
At a 70% target load, the Cisco UCS blade solution consumed 6.5% less power than the HP ProLiant blade solution.
Power
At the maximum target load, the Cisco UCS blade solution consumed 192 watts (W), or 7.2% less power, than the equivalently configured HP BladeSystem solution.
The Cisco UCS blade solution consumed 167 watts, or 17.4% less power, while idle than the equivalently configured HP BladeSystem solution: a difference equivalent to the power consumed by three idle HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blades.
Including the power consumed by a pair of redundant Fabric Interconnects, the Cisco UCS blade solution consumes less power than an equivalent HP BladeSystem solution.
Would you like to learn more about how Cisco UCS can help you? There are more than 250 published datacenter case studies on Cisco.com. Additionally, there is a TCO/ROI tool that will allow you to compare your existing environment to a new UCS Solution. For a more in-depth TCO/ROI analysis, contact your Cisco partner.
If you’re looking for Cisco in the cloud next week, you’ll have your choice of events. The source of all of this cloud knowledge, Las Vegas. Who knew that was where the cloud started?
#EMCworld #CiscoEMCW
First up, Cisco Data Center Cloud team can be found at EMC World, Booth 401, at The Venetian/Palazzo, May 6-9.
For all of the latest information on Cisco’s presence, from theater presentations to demos to speaking sessions, visit www.cisco.com/go/emcworld
#EngineersUnplugged
We will be shooting the first half of Season 3 of Engineers Unplugged in front of a live audience! Surrounded by whiteboards and as a part of the EMC Elect Space of EMC Square, the social hub, we’re pretty excited about the line up of guests and topics. Want to learn more? Ping me @CommsNinja or visit EngineersUnplugged.com.
Unicorns and Waffles, Together Again
There will be unicorns.
#Interop
But wait, there’s more! Just down the strip, at Mandalay Bay, May 6-10, you’ll find Cisco at Interop. For all of the details on the keynote, speaking sessions, and Booth 1327, visit: www.cisco.com/go/interoplv
#Cloud2020
If that’s not enough Vegas cloud for one week, Cisco’s Rodrigo Flores will be speaking at the Cloud 2020 Summit, and we’ll be providing coverage.
That’s what’s happening during the day, but what about the community? Where can you meet with your peers? Beyond the numerous official parties, and there are many, here’s where you can meet up with @CiscoDC peers.
Monday, May 6, 9:30-11:30 pm: Join Matthew Brender (EMC), John Troyer (VMware), and Amy Lewis (that’s me, from Cisco, if that wasn’t readily apparent) for an informal non-sponsored Tweetup (BYOWallet). We podcast as The Geek Whisperers, a show about all things Social Media in Enterprise IT. Social is a part of all of our careers these days, and we’d love to hear what it means to you. Come out and say hi.
Tuesday, May 7, 11 pm -- 1 am: It’s Vegas, baby! After the official parties end, it’s time for Waffle Club. The first rule of Waffle Club, don’t talk about Waffle Club. Space is limited, and spots are going quick.
Wednesday, May 8, 10 pm until:Tech Field Day’s Buzzword Bingo Bash! What could be more fun that coming out to apply all the terms you’ve used and abused during the week. This is a crossover event in a neutral location, easy to get to from EMC World or Interop.
So safe travels to all who are coming. We look forward to catching up with old friends and meeting new. Please stop by the booths and say hi, or hunt one of us down by following the Twitter stream.
For everyone watching at home, pop some popcorn, and get ready for the ride. We’ll do all we can to bring the action to you. Send questions, suggestions, and feedback: here on the blog or to @CiscoDC or @CommsNinja. We’re listening!
In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Bas Raayman from EMC and Caroline Orloff from ServiceMesh take on “what is the software defined data center and how is it like/different from the cloud”? Let’s watch and see what they conclude:
Bas Raayman, Caroline Orloff, and the First Ever Cloud Management Platform Unicorn.
Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with a whiteboard. The rules are simple:
Episodes will publish weekly (or as close to it as we can manage)
Submit ideas for episodes or volunteer to appear by Tweeting to @CommsNinja
Practice drawing unicorns
Where do you think the industry is in terms of SDDC adoption? Predictions for the future? Join the conversation online! We’ll see you live, next week at #EMCWorld.
On April 17th, 2013 Cisco announced SPECjbb2013 results with the Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server delivering top SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM 2-socket x 86 performances.
Cisco’s results on the SPECjbb®2013 benchmark—41,954 maximum Java operations (max-jOPS) and 16,545 critical Java operations (critical-jOPS)— demonstrate that the Cisco UCS® C220 M3 Rack Server and Oracle Java Standard Edition (SE) 7u11 can provide an optimized platform for Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) and deliver accelerated response to throughput-intensive Java applications.
Exercising new Java SE 7 features, the SPECjbb2013 benchmark stresses the CPU processing, memory speed, and chip set performance capabilities of the underlying platform. The result consists of two metrics: the full capacity throughput (max-jOPS) and the critical throughput (critical-jOPS) under service-level agreements (SLAs), ranging from 10 to 500 milliseconds (ms) from request issuance to receipt of a response indicating operation completion.
To compete in the SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM category, the tested configuration consisted of a controller and two groups each consisting of a transaction injector and back-end, all running across multiple JVM instances within a single operating system image. The JVM instances ran on a Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server. Two 2.90-GHz, 8-core Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2690 CPUs powered the Cisco UCS C220 M3 server running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 operating system and Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server Virtual Machine Version 1.7.0_11. The Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server and Oracle Java SE 7u11 delivered fast response times and high transaction throughput on the SPECjbb2013 benchmark. The system supported 41,954 max‑jOPS and 16,545 critical-jOPS, representing the best critical-jOPS 2-socket x86 result in the MultiJVM category
Cisco UCS based SPECjbb2013 benchmark results show that the Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server delivers excellent scalability to JVMs and applications. SPECjbb2013 benchmark results show that the Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server delivers more throughput within specified time frames than solutions from other vendors.
Cisco UCS delivers the scalability needed for large-scale Java application deployments. The dramatic reduction in the number of physical components results in a system that makes effective use of limited space, power, and cooling by deploying less infrastructure to perform more, work. Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Servers can operate in standalone deployments or be managed as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System for increased IT operation efficiency. For additional information on Cisco UCS and Cisco UCS solutions please visit www.cisco.com/go/ucs
SPEC and SPECjbb are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The performance results described are derived from detailed benchmark results available at http://www.speck.org/ as of April 22, 2013.
What do these three things have in common? For Lone Star College System (LSCS), the fastest growing community college in the U.S., these items helped build a whole new technology foundation.
While at a higher-education conference, CIO of LSCS, Link Alander, and former VP of data center virtualization at Presidio, Steve Kaplan, began hashing out what it would take to deliver the best computing experience—on a napkin. They jotted down all the ways technology could deliver a customizable, optimal, and educational platform to students and faculty.
The vision was a toolbox, not just any one tool: an entire resource pool for professors to contribute to -- and students to pull from -- anytime, on any device, from anywhere.
