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Synthetic 3
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The Iometer tests are run on HX3310 nodes using 2680v4 processors, 2 x 400 SSDs. The following node
configurations are tested:
• Single node with single VM
• Four node cluster with 4 or 8 VMs per node with 2-way mirroring
• Four node cluster with 4 or 8 VMs per node with erasure coding
VDI
The industry standard Login VSI benchmarking tool is used for VDI benchmarking using the HX3500
appliance. The following scenario variations are run to measure both the maximum number of users and the
percentage CPU utilization for recommended user densities
Hypervisor:
Persistent Virtual Desktops: 2699v4
Non-Persistent Virtual Desktops:
Hosted Desktops:
VM Cloning:
Desktop Size:
Processor:
Additional scenarios to be tested include a boot storm and the effect of a single node failure in a cluster of 4
nodes.
Microsoft SQL Server
The HammerDB is an OLTP warehouse benchmarking tool for databases. HammerDB can produce results
for the maximum number of transactions per minute (TPM) and maximum number of new orders per minute
(NOPMs).
A 500 GB SQL database is tested using a cluster of four HX7510 nodes with E5-2699v4 processors, 512 GB
of memory, four 800 GB SSDs, and ESXi 6.0 U1. One node executes the VM with Microsoft Windows 2012
R2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
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