Specifications

A Principled Technologies test report 11
The datacenter in a box performance test: Comparing Dell and HP
blade solutions
APPENDIX A  DETAILED CONFIGURATION INFORMATION
Figures 12 and 13 provide detailed configuration information about the test server blades and chassis from each
solution. The Dell used three PowerEdge M620 blade servers to run the applications and test workload while the HP
used three ProLiant BL460c blade servers to run the applications and test workload. Additionally, we used two ProLiant
BL460c blade servers for the required partner blades for the HP StorageWorks D2200sb arrays.
Server
Dell PowerEdge M620 (Application blade)
Enclosure
Blade enclosure
Dell PowerEdge M1000e
General dimension information of blade enclosure
Height (inches)
17.25
Width (inches)
19
Depth (inches)
29.5
U size in server rack (U)
10
Power supplies of blade enclosure
Total number
6
Wattage of each power supply (W)
2,360
Cooling fans of blade enclosure
Total number
9
Dimensions (h x w) of each
3-1/4” x 3-1/4 “
Voltage (V)
12
Amps (A)
5
General processor setup
Number of processor packages
2
Number of cores per processor package
6
Number of hardware threads per core
2
System power management policy
Balanced
CPU
Vendor
Intel
Name
Xeon E5-2640
Stepping
C2
Socket type
Socket 2011 LGA
Core frequency (GHz)
2.50
L1 cache
32 KB + 32 KB (per core)
L2 cache
256 KB (per core)
L3 cache
15 MB (shared)
Platform
Vendor and model number
Dell PowerEdge M620
Motherboard model number
0GVN4C
Motherboard chipset
Intel ID3C00 Rev. 07
BIOS name and version
Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 1.1.2 (03/09/2012)
BIOS settings
Default