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HP ProLiant Gen9 technology
deep dive:
How we optimize performance for
your workloads
Session B6169
Speakers Serge Guex, Ashok Patel & Steven D. Chatham
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The most exciting shifts of our time are underway
Security
Mobility
Cloud
Big Data
Time to revenue is critical
Decisions
must be rapid
Making IT critical to
business success
Business needs
happen anywhere
Change is constant
30 billion
devices
40
trillion GB
By 2020
data
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10
…for
million
mobile apps
8 billion
people
HP ProLiant Gen9
The right compute, for the right workload, at the right
economics…every time
Simple
Efficient
Agile
ProLiant Gen9
Versatile
Reliable
Performance optimized
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Secure
Cloud-Ready
ProLiant Gen9 Portfolio Today
Rack / Tower / Blade
Essential
Performance
Entry
Growth
Traditional
DL60
DL80
DL120
DL160
DL180
ML150
DL360
DL380
ML350
BL460c
Workloads
▪ File and Print
▪ Messaging
▪ Academic & Research
▪ No SQL, Hadoop
▪ Virtualization (low VM density)
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▪ Virtualization
(mid/high VM density)
▪ Mission critical apps
▪ Databases
HP ProLiant Gen9
Moving Innovation forward
HP Smart Cache
HP 12GB/s SAS
HP Smart Drives
Gen9
Tailored
Platforms
HP Smart Memory
Networking
Flex-20
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Power &
Cooling
HP GPU support
HP OneView
iLO Federation
12 Gb/sec SAS
End to End
Simple
Efficient
Agile
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Why HP Controllers?
Simplicity
Agility
• HP Smart Storage
Administrator (SSA)
provides a comprehensive
utility for the attached
storage
• Flexible support for SAS
and SATA devices
• Investment protection for
your HP storage solution
because of common data
format between
generations of product
•
•
•
•
HP SmartCache provides
up to 4x better workload
performance
HP SSD Smart Path speeds
up SSD read performance
by 2.5X
HP 12Gb SAS Expander to
scale storage capacity for
multi-workload needs
HP Flexible Smart Array
and Smart SAS HBA
designed to meet unique
requirements
Only delivered by HP
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Efficiency
Reliability
• Improved Power Efficiency
with Gen9 Smart Array and
Smart Host Bus Adapters
• HP Secure Encryption
protects all data at rest and
transient data
• Rapid rebuild improves IT
efficiency with the Smart
Array firmware
• Scalable from Local to
Enterprise Key Manager
modes
• Flexibility in drive types and
capacity points
• Advanced fault tolerance
with HP RAID
HBA vs RAID mode
Workload optimized
HP Smart Array Controllers
Enterprise-class RAID controllers designed to maximize
performance, data availability, and storage capacity
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HP Smart Host Bus Adapters
HP Smart Host Bus Adapter (HBAs) offer low cost, high
performance and scalability for direct attached with basic RAID
functionality and shared storage support
HP SmartCache for HP Smart Array controllers
Accelerate read and write intensive workloads
Target Customers
Key Benefits
HP ProLiant Gen9 server customers who have:
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Read intensive workloads with repetitive data requests
–
Write intensive workloads that require acceleration
Accelerate workloads with minimal investment into SSDs
Seamless integration into datacenter
Increased utilization and efficiency
Simplified management utilizing HP SSA
HP SmartCache
Leading storage
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Flexible networking
Enterprise-class
management
HP SSD Smart Path
Boosts SSD read performance by bypassing the Smart Array firmware for the optimal path to the SSD
OS
Ideal workloads
Disk
Read intensive workloads located on more than 6 SSDs
Driver
Smart
Path
I/O
Path
Normal
Path
Smart Array
How does this new feature work?
• Supported on Gen8 and later P-series Smart Array controllers
• Smart Array driver chooses optimum path to SSD
RAID Engine
• Accelerates reads for all RAID levels and RAID 0 writes
• Configurable through Smart Storage Administrator (HP SSA)
SSD Array
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
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Local Storage / HP Smart Drives
Workload optimized
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New Boot Device - M.2
New SSD Form Factor Designed for Boot
• Various capacity points
• Power Loss Protection (PLP)
• Connect to chipset SATA via a riser card
• M.2 Drives are “Value SSD” class (< 1 DWPD)
• Not hot pluggable
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Managing the Data with the right HP Options
PCIe Workload Accelerators
SSDs/M.2 Kits
SFF
LFF
200K
Performance [IOPs]
PCIe Workload Accelerators – 150K
100K
Scale with multiple
Controllers and Drives
SSDs – 51K: 6Gb/s & 91K: 12Gb/s
10K
M.2 Kits – 20K
HE-High Endurance
ME-Mainstream
VE-Value
SFF HDD – SATA: 130; SAS 250
100
LFF HDD – SATA: 130; SAS: 250 Perf Scale w/drives
8 GB
200 GB
300 GB
Workload: 4KiB, random, 100% read IOPs
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1 TB
Capacity
2 TB
4 TB
6 TB
SAS Enterprise
ML 7.2K-Midline
Managing the Data with the right HP Options
PCIe Workload Accelerators
SSDs/M.2 Kits
SFF
LFF
200K
Performance [IOPs]
High Frequency
Trading
PCIe
Workload Accelerators – 150K
Analytics
OLTP
100K
Scale with multiple
Controllers and Drives
SSDs – 51K: 6Gb/s & 91K: 12Gb/s
10K
General IT
M.2 Kits – 20K
Boot /
Swap
HE-High Endurance
Infrastructure
ME-Mainstream
VE-Value
SFF HDD – SATA: 130; SAS 250
Bulk Storage
Web
100
8 GB
LFF HDD – SATA: 130; SAS: 250 Perf Scale w/drives
200 GB
300 GB
Workload: 4KiB, random, 100% read IOPs
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1 TB
Capacity
2 TB
4 TB
6 TB
SAS Enterprise
ML 7.2K-Midline
GPU Support
Citrix, VMware, Maya, CATIA, Adobe Imaging, SolidWorks View, Medical Imaging Applications,
Video editing applications…
Accelerators in engineering and sciences
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High-ambient air cooled solutions
Reduce overall data center power
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Converged management built from the ground up
HP OneView architecture
New HTML 5 UI
Software-defined
Templates
REST API & CLI
Instant-on Appliance
Virtual Machine
Appliance (OVA)
HP OneView
Converged Management platform
Server
Storage
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Network
Partner UI
HP iLO Federation
Management at scale
Before
Individual discover
• Ping sweep server by server
Rapid Discovery
iLO Built-in Discovery
• Query and Display
• Group health status
• Group configurations
• Server name registration
Location
1
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Location
2
Group Management
Full implementation
with an iLO License
• Group Firmware Update
• Group License Activation
• Group Virtual Media
• Group Power Control
• Group Power Capping
Increasing Data Center Agility with 20Gb Innovation
Flex-20 technology enables network convergence
20Gb
Performance
 Increase connection
bandwidth flexibility
 Maximize capacity utilization
FlexNIC 1A
.5Gb Service Console
FlexHBA 1B
8Gb Storage Network
FlexNIC 1C
10Gb VM Network
FlexNIC 1D
1.5Gb VMotion
Efficiency
 Converge LAN and SAN
 Increase VMs per link
 Reduce TCO
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Simplicity
 Centralized management
 Non-disruptive bandwidth
adjustments
Boost Server Efficiency for Overlay Networking
Offload host VXLAN/NVGRE processing to HP FlexFabric 556/650 adapters
Tunnel Offload implementation
HP 556/650
Adapter VXLAN
Increase I/O
throughput
Processing
Hypervisor
CPU
Reduce
CPU utilization
VXLAN
Processing
• Adapter offloads CPU
• Hypervisor no longer processes VXLAN tags
• Enables low-latency VM operations
Reduce power
consumption
Increase VM security and network scale with minimal impact on performance
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HP ProLiant Gen9 DDR4 SmartMemory
Why HP? — Highest quality, reliability, performance and compatibility
Higher performance
Up to 14% more throughput at DDR4-2133 compared to
Intel’s specification 1
Power saving / efficiency
Lower fan power and better acoustics based upon HP
motherboard design
35% lower power consumption than DDR3 at the same
speed bin 2
1 Up to
14% better performance is based on similar capacity DIMMS running on HP server compared to a non-HP server with DDR4.
Calculation: At 2DPC (2 DIMMs per channel), HP will perform with RDIMM and LRDIMM @ 2133MHz; whereas, Intel suggests 2DPC @ 1866MHz (2133 – 1866)/1866 )*100 = 14%
2 DDR3 1.5v DDR4 1.2v – voltage to current calculation to get the 35%
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Tailored Platforms
Optimized for your Workloads
Feature
New to Servers (10 series)
New IT Growth (100 series)
Traditional IT (300 series)
Chassis
Reduced depth (<24”)
Reduced depth (<24”)
Standard depth
Processor supported
Limited stack (up to 105W)
Limited stack (up to 105W)
Full stack (up to 145W)
Memory
8 DDR4 DIMM slots
Upto 16 DDR4 DIMM slots
Upto 24 DDR4 DIMM slots
PCI-e slots
Fewest
Few
Maximum
Networking
2x1Gb embedded +
optional Flexible LOM on riser
2x1Gb embedded +
optional Flexible LOM on riser
4x1Gb embedded,
Flexible LOM optional
Storage controller
Embedded SATA with optional PCI-e
Smart Array / HBA Cards
Embedded SATA with optional PCI-e
Smart Array / HBA Cards
Embedded SATA with optional
Smart Array AROC and PCI-e
Drive expansion
Low-Medium
Medium-High
Maximum
GPU support
None to limited
Limited
Maximum
Power supply
Non common slot with NHP and HP
redundant options
Non common slot with NHP and HP
redundant options
Flex slot hot plug only
Cooling
Hot-swap / non-redundant fans
w/ optional redundancy
Hot-swap / non-redundant fans
w/ optional redundancy
Hot plug redundant fans
Warranty
1 year (1-1-1)
3 year limited (3-1-1)
3 years (3-3-3)
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63% performance progression from Gen8 to Gen9!
On two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark
#1
(SAP certification #2014032)
100 000
25 000
87 880
80 000
20 000
16 101
54 080
15 000
60 000
9 901
40 000
10 000
HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9
2 x E5-2699 v3 (2.3GHz 18-core 145W), 256GB
20 000
5 000
0
SAP Users
SAPS
0
HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8
2 x E5-2697 v2 (2.7GHz 12-core 130W), 256GB
Outstanding performance growth on real applications with new Gen9 servers
HP Server Performance SAP Benchmarks http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA5-4869ENW
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Benchmarks
New HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Server achieves overall world
record for two-processor servers on two-tier SAP® Sales and
Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark
Achieved 16,101 SAP SD benchmark users and 87,880 SAPS running Red Hat Enterprise Server 6.5, SAP
Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SAP ASE) 16.0 SP01, and SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0
application
New HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 Server achieves world
records on SPECvirt_sc2013 benchmark
Leadership in 2P virtualized performance and overall performance/power
Running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (KVM) operating system.
New HP ProLiant ML350 Gen9 Server wins five records on
SPECjbb2013 benchmark
World records in MultiJVM, Distributed, and Composite categories
#1 2P SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS
#1 overall SPECjbb2013-Distributed max-jOPS and critical-jOPS
#1 overall SPECjbb2013-Composite max-jOPS and critical-jOPS
Source: http://www.spec.org , www.sap.com/benchmark , http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/benchmarks/index.aspx
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For more information….
Attend these sessions
• CDA6214 - How to win with HP's
compute strategy in EMEA
• Wednesday at 16:30
• B6223 - Compute 101: Understanding
HP's infrastructure approach to drive
better business results
• Thursday at 11:30
• DF6225 - HP BladeSystem and HP
OneView roundtable
• Thursday at 13:00
Visit these Tech Showcase Demos
Visit these Discover Zone Demos
Get a look into the future of HP Servers in
the NDA Technology Showcase
• 6405 & 6406: HP ProLiant Gen9
• TPS6426: Gen9 R&T Futures
• 6443 & 6446: OneView & iLO
• TPS6427: HP BladeSystem & Networking
Futures
• 6436: Start with an HP Rack
• 6421: Boost Business Performance
• TPS6428: Smart Storage
• TPS6429: Hyperscale Futures
• TPS6309: Future Scale-up servers
• TPS6308: Future Mission Critical compute
After the event
• Contact your sales rep
• Visit the website at:
www.hp.com/go/servers
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