Powerleader PR1700G2 1U Server evaluation

Server

Powerleader PR1700G2 Server is a member of the 7 Series, capable of web, Email, FTP, File, cache, messaging, multimedia, proxy host, search engine, security, virtual Private network (VPN), IP voice (VOIP), network hosting and other applications, can also be competent for many data storage, database applications, high-performance computing, computer clusters and other fields, applicable to data center construction, e-government, Enterprise information construction, game sites, broadband network construction, campus backbone network construction.

The Powerleader PR1700G2 server uses the Intel Sr1400sys chassis, which is 43m x 430m x 672mm and is suitable for high-density deployments. The Intel Sr1400sys motherboard is installed in the chassis, which uses Intel E7520, ICH5R, and 6700PXH chips, with the highest support for two-way Xeon processors (800MHz FSB, 1MB/2MB L2).

Attentive readers will find that the SR1400 chassis looks very similar to the SR1435 chassis, and the founder's MR100 server we tested previously used the latter. The Powerleader PR1700G2 Server front panel provides 3 3.5-inch hard drive bays, reserving the location of the installation of the SLIM CD/DVD drive, but the prototype is not configured and the server does not provide the software, so be sure to have the USB interface's optical drive and floppy drive ready before deploying the operating system.

The power button, reset button, ID system button, two NIC LEDs, Power LED, System status indicator, hard drive status indicator, video output interface, USB interface are available on the right side of the server front panel.

The server back panel is designed with mouse interface, keyboard interface, RJ45 serial port, two Gigabit network interface, video output interface, 2 USB interface and half high expansion card bit and full height expansion card. The server's two gigabit NICs are supported by the Intel FW82846GB dual-channel Gigabit NIC Controller, which is applied on a variety of servers.

The Powerleader pr1700g2 server Delta DPS-500GB power supply, which has a maximum output power of 500W, where the total output power of +3.3v and +5v is no more than 90W. From the server configuration, this server does not have the ability to directly extend the redundant power supply.

The PR1700G2 server is equipped with 1 Intel Xeon 2.8GHz Processors (800Mhz FSB,2MB L2), two 512MB Ddrii 400 memory configurations for dual channels, onboard LSI 1020 scsi/ RAID controller and a single Fujitsu MAT3073NC SCSI hard drive.

There are 9 chassis fans installed in the Powerleader PR1700G2 server, of which 4 pairs are 22 redundant, and the airflow is blown to the processor heatsink through the shroud, mainly for devices such as processors and memory, and another fan is mainly for PCI expansion card cooling.

The Intel Ddrii Motherboard is designed with 6 240pin DIMMs, up to 12GB REG ECC 400 RAM, Memory redundancy technology, memory mirroring technology, and SDDC.

The motherboard is configured with two PCI class device slots, and the slot on the right is known as the Intel Adaptive Slot (Intel Adaptive Slot), which can support the Pci-x 66MHz device or support the PCI-E x4 device by inserting a different transfer card, while the other slot is only pci-x 66MHz slots.

With this riser, a full high Pci-x expansion card and a Pci-x expansion card can be installed in the 1U chassis.

Install, maintain, and manage attachments such as rails are not included in the Powerleader PR1700G2 server, so we can only get an initial understanding of the installation through the server. The two sides of the server are designed with a buckle, the internal rail without screws can be conveniently fixed on both sides of the server.

The Powerleader PR1700G2 server comes with two very useful tools CDs, an Intel server Deployment Toolkit CD, and an Intel server Manager 8.10 Software CD.

Intel Express Installer Launch interface

The Intel Server deployment Toolkit CD contains the following tools:

Intel Express Installer:

This is a Microsoft Windows compatible tool to help users easily and quickly install the latest version of the software and drivers. Intel SMaRT Tool:

Server Maintenance and Reference training Tool, FRUSDR Load Utility:

This tool is primarily used to upgrade the IPMI Sensor data Records (SDR) and IPMI Field replaceable Unit (SDR) information for the system. Firmware Update Utility SEL Viewer:

For viewing the system event Log FRU Viewer:

This tool helps display the product-level FRU of the server Management subsystem. Server Configuration Wizard (SCW)

Help user Initialize server configuration Save and Restore System Configuration Utility (SYSCFG)

Help users save, restore, and set the firmware and BIOS settings driver documentation for the selected system Platform confidence Test

For testing server hardware

The Intel Server Manager software CD consists primarily of Intel servers management software, which includes management consoles and management agents two components. Unfortunately, there is only one Intel Server Deployment Toolkit CD in the Powerleader server, and there is no consulting on the Po de website, Powerleader can not provide the response of the electronic documents, We had already given up on the plan for the software evaluation. Finally, we found a detailed introduction to the software on Intel's website.

The main features of Intel Server Manager software are as follows:

View System Inventory--ism can provide a wealth of information about your computer's hardware and software configuration. Monitor the health of your computer--ism reports when a computer's health is in a warning or critical condition based on several health components (for example, temperature, voltage, available memory, and disk space). Receive system event Alerts--ism can use a variety of alert methods to notify you of the problem. Monitoring real-time or historic--ism lets you monitor the performance of various system objects, such as drives, processors, memory, and services. You can set alert actions to trigger a notification when a specified counter exceeds the threshold or lower limit up to a predetermined number of times. Monitoring the current process--ism lets you view the statistics for the current process and each process, and closes any or all processes. Monitoring the current service--ism allows you to view current services and their status, or to set alert actions to notify changes to service status. 2005, is an active SME information year, but also the most Active server procurement year. Vendors have introduced server products for SMB applications, and it is not easy for small and medium enterprises to choose their own products in a wide range of brands and models. Therefore, this time we take the form of "propositional composition" to the manufacturer to solicit products: located in the SMB application of the rack-type server, the price between 230,000.

All of the test manufacturers for our evaluation of product requirements for the careful selection and configuration, so we tested each of the products are in fact by various manufacturers specifically for small and medium-sized applications customized server. Compared with the standard configuration, these products have better balance, availability and cost performance.

Our evaluation is not limited to performance testing, mainly includes the following 6 aspects:

I. Evaluation of MAIN SPECIFICATIONS

This section is mainly for the test server's physical characteristics, hardware configuration, and so on, such as Server chassis architecture, specification size, processor model/quantity/frequency, chipset, memory model and capacity, disk controller, hard disk model, disk array, network card model and interface type, thermal device, power supply, expansion slot, Io interface, number of bays, and so on.

Second, the Server technology verification test

Processor technology: SMP technology, HT Technology, EMT64, Dual Core

Memory: DDR, Ddrii, dual channel, memory mirroring, memory hot standby

Disk interface technology: SATA, IDE, SCSI

Disk array technology: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 Hot Swap Technology

Mainstream operating system management capabilities, Windows, Linux Local management, and remote management

System Configuration and Management Service configuration

Hardware monitoring and Management: CPU, disk, network log management, alarm

SEPCCPU2000 can evaluate the integer performance and floating-point performance of the processors in the server system, and we are testing the specint_base2000 and specfp_base2000 two projects. Sciencemark v2.0, a software that evaluates the capabilities of the processor's scientific computing, provides the ability to evaluate the memory bandwidth of the system being tested, which can support multithreading very well. Iometer is an I/O subsystem evaluation tool that can be used for a single system or cluster system, and we only use its disk testing capabilities. Webbench and NetBench are two commonly used software in server evaluation, which focuses on the performance evaluation of the server CPU subsystem, while the latter focuses on the performance evaluation of the IO subsystem. We installed the Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard Edition (Chinese, 32bit) on the servers configured above, and correctly installed the drivers for each hardware, and the processor and memory performance test spec is a standard performance evaluation company (Standard performance Abbreviation for evaluation Corporation). Spec is a non-profit organization made up of computer manufacturers, system integrators, universities, research institutes, and consulting companies that aim to establish and maintain a set of standards for evaluating computer systems. Spec CPU2000 is a set of CPU subsystem evaluation software introduced by spec, which includes CINT2000 and CFP2000 two subprojects for measuring and contrasting integer performance, while the latter is used to measure and contrast floating-point performance. The processors, memory, and compilers in the computing system affect the final test performance, while the impact of I/O (disk), network, operating systems, and graphics subsystems on the spec CPU2000 is very small. We have installed the Intel C + + 8.1 Compiler, Intel Fortran 8.1 Compiler The two spec CPU2000 required compilers on the tested server, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 is also installed. NET provides the necessary library files. According to Spec, we edited the new config file according to our own situation, we can meet the base test, and the following test results are 4 users, specint_rate_base2000 and Specfp_rate_ under the Hyper-threading condition of open dual Xeon processor base2000.

specfp_rate2000 multiple instances (instance) at the same time in the testing process, measuring the ability of the system to perform compute-intensive floating-point operations, such as CAD/CAM, DCC, and scientific calculations can be used to refer to this result. Specint_rate 2000 simultaneous execution of multiple instances (instances) and the ability of the system to perform multiple compute-intensive integer operations at the same time can well reflect such things as database servers, Performance of multiprocessor systems such as e-mail servers and Web servers that are based on integer applications. The Powerleader pr1700g2 server's integer and floating-point scores were 17.9 and 17.0, with a slightly lower score than previously tested products configured with the Xeon 3.0GHz processor, but within normal range.

	Sciencemark Membench
Memory bandwidth	4001.25 MB/s
L1 Cache Latency
Bytes Stride	3 Cycles/1.07ns
L2 Cache Latency
4 Bytes Stride	6 cycles/2.15 NS
Bytes Stride	cycles/4.65 NS
Stride Bytes	cycles/9.67 NS
256 Bytes Stride	Num cycles/9.31 NS
Stride Bytes	cycles/8.59 NS
Memory Latency
4 Bytes Stride	6 cycles/2.15 NS
Bytes Stride	cycles/5.01 NS
Stride Bytes	cycles/16.47 NS
256 Bytes Stride	353 cycles/126.38 NS
Stride Bytes	369 cycles/132.11 NS
Algorithm Bandwidth
Compiler	2014.13 MB/s
REP Movsd	2082.58 MB/s
ALU Reg Copy	1792.41 MB/s
MMX Reg Copy	1921.68 MB/s
MMX Reg 3dNow	-
MMX Reg SSE	3155.6 MB/s
SSE palign	3421.91 MB/s
SSE Palign SSE	3335.88 MB/s
SSE2 palign	3422.41 MB/s
SSE2 palign SSE	3336.91 MB/s
MMX Block 4KB	3545.41 MB/s
MMX Block 16kb	4001.25 MB/s
SSE Block 4KB	3487.58 MB/s
SSE Block 16kb	3996.17 MB/s

Sciencemark v2.0 is a software used to test the performance of the system, especially the processor in a scientific computing application, Membenchmark is a functional module designed for processor caching and system memory that can test system memory bandwidth, L1 cache latency, L2 Cache latency and system memory latency, in addition to testing the performance differences of different instruction sets.

In the test we found that in the BIOS default state, this server's memory bandwidth is lower than the normal state of 10% or more. After Powerleader engineers find out the reason found that the BIOS default hardware prefetcher and adjacent Cache line prefetch both options are disable status, after enabling them, the performance of the server tested finally returned to normal (we have verified , found primarily to be the impact of the adjacent Cache line prefetch option, we looked at most of the other servers and did not provide this tuning option. Powerleader recommends that the user decide whether to turn on this feature based on the actual application. From our test results, the memory bandwidth test results are at the upstream level in the server being tested.

A certain amount of optimization is done, the unwanted service is turned off and the server is working in the best state. The Iometer is a very powerful IO test software that provides the ability to simulate network applications in addition to the native IO (disk) performance of the test native. In this test, we just let it run the test server's disk performance on the local computer. In order to fully test the IO performance of the server being tested, we selected different test scripts separately. Max_throughput: File size is 64kb,100% read operation, the random rate is 0%, used to detect the maximum throughput of disk system Max_io: File size for 512b,100% read operation, random rate of 0%, Maximum IO capability for detecting disk systems Fielserver: File size ranging from 0.5KB to 64KB, 80% read operations, random rate of 100%, for analog file server performance webserver: File size from 0.5KB to 512KB, 100% read operations , with a random rate of 100%, used to simulate the performance of a Web server

The Powerleader PR1700G2 server onboard LSI 1020A scsi/raid controller can support RAID 1 or RAID 0 mode disk arrays. The platform is equipped with a single Fujitsu MAT3073NC hard Drive (SCA-2 interface, 73gb,10000rpm), the test results are quite good, most of the IOPS are maintained at more than 42000, the highest to achieve the 44346 IOPS, but the CPU occupancy rate is high. This disk subsystem has a throughput of around 70mb/s and is a high test result in the onboard Scsi/raid Controller + single SCSI hard drive combination disk subsystem.

The webserver and Fileserver scripts simulate the performance of disk subsystems in both Web server applications and file server applications, and there is no real connected access network at this time. The highest IO processing capabilities for webserver script tests and NetBench script tests are all up to IOps, with mediocre performance.

Network connectivity Performance: NetBench 7.03NetBench is for file server performance testing software, affecting NetBench performance is mainly the server's disk subsystem, server disk controller, hard disk type, build disk array mode will have a significant impact on the test results. We set up a file server on the tested server, NetBench through 32 clients in the network lab to simulate the file transfer request from the PC to the file server, the file server sends the file data stored on disk to the corresponding client. With the built-in NIC.TST test script, we can test the throughput and response time of the server Gigabit NIC: The Powerleader PR1700G2 Server uses the Intel Intel FW82546GB dual Gigabit NIC Controller, before we tested several server products using this chip, The performance of the two-port network is almost the same. Powerleader PR1700G2 Server Gigabit NIC throughput is quite high, has been kept above 885Mbps, the highest reached 901Mbps.

The Webbench 5.0 performance Test Webbench is designed to test the performance of the server as a Web server, and we have IIS6.0 components installed on the tested server to provide the Web services required for testing. In the test we opened the network Lab 32 PCs (Celeron 1.7/256mb/40gb/100ethernet) as the client, respectively, using the Webbench 5.0 built-in dynamic CGI and static page script to test the server. Static testing (STATIC.TST) is a Web page (Wbtree) that is read by the client in advance of a server Web server, and this test focuses on server disk system and network connectivity performance. We used all 32 PCs in the lab to send the request to the server under test, and of course 32 clients were connected, the processing capacity reached 9842 requests/s. In multithreaded static script testing (STATIC_MT.TST), each physical client emits two threads, and when 32 clients, the processing power reaches 13007 requests/s. Dynamic testing focuses on performance testing of the server's CPU subsystem, which provides enough load for the Web server. We compile the CGI source file simcigi.c in a C language into Simcgi.exe and use it as a CGI script in the dynamic test. During the testing process, each PC that has the Webbench client software installed will continue to send CGI requests to the server within 300 seconds, while the console records and summarizes the data of the server's response to the CGI request.   When the Webbench test is started, the client connects to the server sequentially and sends a CGI request in each of the four sets. When the test is finished, the console collects the data and draws the change curve of the number of server CGI responses. The performance of the CGI test is mainly determined by the quality of the server processor subsystem. The processor subsystem includes CPU, memory, and memory controller, CPU frequency, cache, memory size, and memory bandwidth, which can affect the performance. The test curve is pretty good, with the highest number of processed requests reaching the 2567 REQUESTS/S (32 clients), which is not inferior to the one we tested previously for servers configured with the Xeon 3.0 processor. NetBench is the performance testing software for file servers, the main impact of NetBench performance is the server's disk subsystem, the server disk controller, the type of hard disk, the build disk array mode will have a significant impact on the test results. We set up a file server on the tested server, NetBench through 32 clients in the network lab to simulate the file transfer request from the PC to the file server, the file server will be stored inThe file data on the disk is sent to the appropriate client. As with the Webbench test, the client will connect to the server and send file transfer requests in each of the four sets after the NetBench test begins. At the end of the test, the console collects the data and draws the change curve of the data transfer that the server can achieve. The standard disk Mix test (DM.TST) has a maximum throughput of 173 Mbps (32 clients), Enterprise Disk Mix test (ENT_DM. TST) test highest throughput reached 317 Mbps (20 clients). The Powerleader PR1700G2 Server is designed to support two Xeon processors (Nocona Core, 800MHz FSB,2MB) with a maximum support of 12GB Ddrii 400 memory, while supporting X4 SDDC ECC, Memory mirroring and memory redundancy technology; The motherboard board contains a LSI 1020 Scsi/raid controller that connects 6 3.5-inch SCSI hard drive bays to provide a reliable disk subsystem for users, and can support PCI-E expansion cards or pci-x expansion cards with an Intel adaptive slot.

Powerleader PR1700G2 Server with tool-free disassembly rails, installation is more convenient. He did not provide operating system deployment aids, but provided such things as smart, FRUSDR Load utitlity, firmware Update Utility, SEL Viewer, SCW, Syscfg and other practical gadgets to help the server initialization settings, maintenance, and so on. ISM 8.10 is a highly functional software that is functionally inferred to be associated with the widely used LAN-Powerleader (LANDesk) LANDesk System Manager software, which comes with the premium software in the officially sold PR1700G2 server.

Powerleader pr1700g2 server performance, SPEC CPU2000 base_rate integer can be divided into 17.9 points, floating point is divided into 17.2 points, memory bandwidth performance of 4001MB/S, disk performance is high. Network application test shows that dynamic CGI response up to 2567 Requests per Second, enterprise disk applications up to 321 Mbps.

Powerleader Server price positioning is high, send the test server quotes for 29503 Yuan, a separate increase of a Xeon 2.8GHz processor needs 4282 yuan, a single increase of Xeon 3.0GHz processor needs 5378 yuan.