IBM BladeCenter HS22 Manual

IBM publishes new result for BladeCenter HS22 on VMware’s VMmark 

virtualization benchmark  

IBM® BladeCenter® HS22 delivers competitive 2-socket, 8-core result for VMware® VMmark™ 

v1.1.1 benchmark 

June 30, 2009 ... IBM has published a VMware VMmark result, which was achieved using the IBM 

BladeCenter HS22 and VMware ESX Server 4.0.  

The HS22 blade server delivered a competitive score of 24.05 @ 17 Tiles using the Quad-Core Intel® 

Xeon® Processor X5570 (2.93GHz with 256KB L2 cache per core and 8MB L3 cache per processor—2 

Sockets/4 Cores per Socket/8 Cores Total), and 96GB of DDR3 1066 PC3-8500R memory (12 x 8GB 

DIMMs). 

The HS22’s score of 24.05 @17 Tiles compares very favorably with the current top 2-socket, 8-core result 

of 24.35 @ 17 Tiles achieved by a similarly configured system. (1)

The IBM BladeCenter HS22 blade server offers excellent performance balanced with flexible 

configuration options and simple management in an efficient server designed to run a wide range of 

workloads, including infrastructure, virtualization, and enterprise applications. The HS22 supports up to 

two Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. 

VMmark is a free tool that hardware vendors, virtualization software vendors and other organizations can 

use to measure the performance and scalability of applications running in virtualized environments. 

VMware developed VMmark as a standard methodology for comparing virtualized systems.  

Results referenced are current as of June 30, 2009. For information about the VMmark benchmark and a 

complete list of results, go to 

http://vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html

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(1) The comparison stated above is based on the best score achieved by a 2-socket, 8-core system using 

the same processor and the same amount of memory. 

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