HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, 8GB-U, 4LFF, non-hot-pluggable, SATA, 200W power supply, 1J VOS entry-level server

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For our transactional SQL Server benchmark, the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus had a score of 3,146.43 TPS with 1VM. Finally in our VDI LC Monday Login the MicroServer broke 1ms at about 19K IOPS and peaked at 26,118 IOPS at a latency of 1.69ms before dropping off some. Example. Copy 38Gb file from my Nas to local storage under 2k19, get full 1Gbps, start a hyper-v vm, it slows to a few kbps, even copying from USB on the Windows 2019 server, not VM, Mouse becomes jumpy and unresponsive. HPE IT investment solutions help you transform into a digital business with IT economics that aligns with your business goals. The MicroServer finished our SQL tests with sub-millisecond latency with a peak of 149,358 IOPS at a latency of 642.7µs in our SQL 80-20 before falling off a bit.

This test uses SQL Server 2014 running on Windows Server 2012 R2 guest VMs, and is stressed by Dell’s Benchmark Factory for Databases. While our traditional usage of this benchmark has been to test large 3,000-scale databases on local or shared storage, in this iteration we focus on spreading out one 1,500-scale database evenly on our server.Our next local-storage application benchmark consists of a Percona MySQL OLTP database measured via SysBench. This test measures average TPS (Transactions Per Second), average latency, and average 99th percentile latency as well. For random 4K write, the MicroServer stayed under 1ms until about 150K IOPS which was roughly its peak at about 250µs latency before falling off in performance and latency jumping sharply. One still gets two DDR4 ECC Unbuffered DIMM slots. These have moved up from DDR4-2400 to DDR4-2666 in this generation adding a bit more bandwidth. The MicroServer Gen10 comes standard with 8GB or 16GB of memory but can take two 16GB ECC DIMMs for 32GB total. The Xeon E-2200 series can take up to two DIMMs per channel for four DIMMs but in smaller form factors like this, a two DIMM solution is popular to save on space and cost. HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus ECC UDIMM We are going to focus on some of the different parts of the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus. If you are interested in a specific area, feel free to skip ahead scrolling through pictures and subheadings. We are going to keep the MicroServer Gen10 on the left side of these photos and the MicroServer Gen10 Plus on the right side. MicroServer Gen10 Plus v Gen10 Front

At the time with thermal profile was captured, the system fan was dynamically set to just 18%. With our system having flash inside and no hard drives, we really only heard a mild whirring from the server. Noise might rank slightly above a traditional desktop, but it was a softer fan noise than say a notebook running under full load that had a small fan cranking up in speed. Performance

HPE has made many changes in the generational progression to the Gen10 Plus. Immediately obvious is the reduction in size, the Plus is roughly half the size of the predecessor. Much of this is related to moving the power supply (180W) outside the enclosure, which has a secondary benefit besides size. The reduction in heat within the server means HPE could also drop down to one fan from two fans in the prior chassis. This change has another cascading effect, with one fewer fans, the Gen10 Plus makes less overall noise which is important if we assume the myriad use cases for this server, will likely have it operating in populated areas, rather than an isolated server room. Last but clearly not least, the Gen10 Plus gets an option to add iLO, HPEs out of band server management software. This is a big deal for managing multiple units in geographically dispersed areas, a clear target HPE had in mind. When this option is enabled, HPE includes a dedicated card for Ethernet access and an iLO Essentials license. The license may be upgraded to iLO Advanced. The server also supports HPE InfoSight for Servers. Each SQL Server VM is configured with two vDisks: 100GB volume for boot and a 500GB volume for the database and log files. From a system resource perspective, we configured each VM with 16 vCPUs, 64GB of DRAM and leveraged the LSI Logic SAS SCSI controller. While our Sysbench workloads tested previously saturated the platform in both storage I/O and capacity, the SQL test looks for latency performance. For VDI Linked Clone (LC) Boot, the MicroServer had sub-millisecond latency performance throughput with a peak of 60,364 IOPS and a latency of 977.3µs. Installed Windows Server 2019 Eval on to bare metal, Installs ok, but then goes super sluggish when running Hyper-V to the point of being unusable. Updated to the latest BIOS etc using the SPP iso.