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Workload Profiles and performance options
Workload Profiles and performance options
Workload Profiles is one of the HPE Intelligent System Tuning (IST) features and allows you to tune the resources in your HPE ProLiant
server by choosing a preconfigured workload profile. The server will automatically configure the BIOS settings to match the selected
workload.
System provided Workload Profiles
System provided Workload Profiles
The system provides these Workload Profiles:
General Power Efficient Compute
This profile is the default profile for most ProLiant servers and HPE Synergy compute modules.
This profile applies the most common performance settings that benefit most application workloads while also enabling power
management settings that have minimal impact to overall performance. The settings that are applied heavily favor a balanced
approach between general application performances versus power efficiency.
This profile is recommended for customers that do not typically tune their BIOS for their workload.
General Peak Frequency Compute
This profile is intended for workloads that generally benefit from processors or memory that must achieve the maximum
frequency possible, for any individual core, at any time. Power management settings are applied when they ensure that any
component frequency upside can be readily achieved. Processing speed is favored over any latencies that might occur. This
profile is a general-purpose profile, so optimizations are done generically to increase processor core and memory speed.
This profile benefits workloads that typically benefit from faster compute time.
General Throughput Compute
This profile is intended to be used for workloads where the total maximum sustained workload throughput is needed. Increased
throughput does not always occur when the processor runs at the highest individual core speed. Increased throughput can occur
when the processor is able to perform sustained work across all available cores during maximum utilization. Power management
settings are disabled when they are known to have impact on maximum achievable bandwidth.
Best throughput is achieved when the workload is also (Nonuniformed Memory Access) NUMA aware and optimized so settings
that benefit NUMA awareness are applied.
Virtualization - Power Efficient
This profile is intended to be used for virtualization environments. The profile ensures that all available virtualization options are
enabled. Certain virtualization technologies can have possible performance impacts to nonvirtualized environments and can be
disabled in other profiles. Power management settings can have an impact on performance when running virtualization operating
systems and this profile applies power management settings that are virtualization friendly.
Virtualization - Max Performance
This profile is intended to be used for virtualization environments. The profile ensures that all available virtualization options are
enabled. Power management settings are disabled in favor of delivering maximum performance.
Low Latency
This profile is intended to be used by customers who desire the least amount of computational latency for their workloads. This
profile follows the most common best practices that are documented in the HPE Low Latency Whitepaper. Maximum speed and
throughput are often sacrificed to lower overall computational latency. Power management and other management features that
might introduce computational latency are also disabled.
The profile benefits customers running Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) or other transactional latency sensitive workloads.
Mission Critical
This profile is intended to be used by customers who trade off performance for server reliability above the basic server defaults.
The profile enables advanced memory reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features that are known to have more than
a measurable impact to computational performance. Enabling this profile will have an impact to maximum memory bandwidth and
will increase memory latency.
Transactional Application Processing
This profile is intended to be used for business processing environments, such as online transaction processing (OLTP)
applications that require a database back-end. For example, workloads typically comprised of a high number of user-based,
transactional applications running on a single server with cohosted database component. The profile balances the requirement of
managing both peak frequency and throughput.
High Performance Compute (HPC)
This profile is intended for customers running in a traditional HPC environment. Typically, these environments are clustered
environments where each node performs at maximum utilization for extended periods of time to solve large-scale scientific and
engineering workloads. The default for our Apollo series servers, power management is typically disabled in favor of sustained
available bandwidth and processor compute capacity. This profile is similar to the Low Latency profile except that some latency
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