Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 Virtualized Workload Performance measurement using VMmark 3.1.1
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:21:24 -0000
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This blog is about virtualization benchmarks that we ran at the Dell EMC labs in June 2021. The specific example showcased here is the performance of Dell PowerEdge R750 with Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 processors running virtualized workloads as prescribed by the VMmark 3.1.1 benchmark. At a high level, the configuration tested was made up of the following components:
Server Model: Dell EMC PowerEdge R750
Storage Model: Dell EMC PowerMax 8000
Hypervisor: VMware ESXi 7.0 U2 Build 17630552
Datacenter Management Software: VMware vCenter Server 7.0 U1c Build 17327586
- Systems Under Test (SUTs) hardware configuration
The hardware configuration for the Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 systems under test is shown in Table 1.
Table 1 SUTs hardware configuration
Number of Servers | 2 |
Server Manufacturer and Model | Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 |
Processor Vendor and Model | Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 |
Processor Speed/ Turbo Boost Speed | 2.3 GHz / 3.4 GHz |
Total Sockets/Total Cores/Total Threads | 2 Sockets / 80 Cores / 160 Threads |
BIOS Version | 1.1.3 |
Memory Size | 2048 GB, 32 DIMMs |
Memory Type and Speed | 64 GB 2Rx4 DDR4 3200 MHz RDIMM |
Disk Subsystem Type | FC SAN |
Number of Disk Controllers | 1 |
Disk Controller Vendors and Models | Dell PERC H745 |
Number of Physical Disks for Hypervisor | 2 |
Disk Vendors, Models, Capacities, and Speeds | WDC, WUSTR1596ASS200, 960 GB, 12 Gbps SSD |
Number of Host Bus Adapters | 1 |
Host Bus Adapter Vendors and Models | QLE2692 Dual Port 16 Gb FC Adapter |
Number of Network Controllers | 2 |
Network Controller Vendors and Models | Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet BCM5720 |
- Storage hardware configuration
The workload VMs were hosted by the SUTs and resided on attached shared SAN storage.
In this configuration a Dell PowerMax 8000 was used as shown in Table 2.
Table 2 Storage hardware configuration
Storage Type | FC SAN |
Storage platform | Dell EMC PowerMax 8000 |
- Networking hardware configuration
The networking switches used for the test bed are shown in Table 3.
Table 3 Networking hardware configuration
Network Switch | 1 x Dell PowerConnect 6248, 1 x Dell Force10 S4810 |
Network Speed | 1 Gbps for SUT management, 10 Gbps for vMotion, Clients and VMs |
- About VMmark
VMmark is VMware’s virtualization workload performance benchmark. At a high level, the latest version, VMmark 3.1.1, is a multi-server, virtualized datacenter benchmark developed to measure the performance and scalability of virtualization platforms. It performs infrastructure operations such as dynamic virtual machine relocation, dynamic virtual machine storage relocation, and virtual machine provisioning while running applications on workload VMs.
The performance of those individual workloads is aggregated to represent the overall performance of the virtualized data center, while meeting minimum quality of service (QoS) requirements.
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 VMmark 3.1.1 result
The published result was run on two PowerEdge R750 servers configured as a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster. The workload deployed was made up of 14 tiles. Each tile was a grouping of 19 workload VMs. Some of the workload VMs simulated scalable web applications. Examples of such applications include social networking and online auction web sites. Other workload tile VMs simulated E-Commerce. The 14 tiles added up to a total of 266 workload VMs, with each PowerEdge R750 hosting 133 workload VMs.
- Summary of results
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 cluster achieved a score of 13.95 with 14 tiles. The results met all QoS thresholds and was in complete compliance with VMmark 3.1.1 run rules.
The submitted test results included the following infrastructure operations and associated statistics are shown in Table 4.
Table 4 Test results
Infrastructure_Operations_Scores | vMotion | SVMotion | XVMotion | Deploy |
Completed_Ops_PerHour | 28.00 | 27.00 | 22.00 | 11.50 |
Avg_Seconds_To_Complete | 7.90 | 75.82 | 96.02 | 279.14 |
Failures | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
For more information about VMmark, see:
https://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark.html
For the full official publication of the Dell VMmark benchmark result, see: