Cisco, VMware: Cisco UCS B250-M1 VMware Consolidation Ratio (Oracle DBs)

So a few days ago, I put out a post on the VMware Virtual Machine consolidation ratio I saw on our Cisco B200-M1 blades. This post will go over the same for full width B250-M1 blades.

The server itself is running mainly Oracle database VMs.  Blade specs are as follows:

  • Dual – Quad core Intel Xeon X5570 2.93 GHZ CPUs
  • 98 gigs of RAMSince the Oracle VMs are running semi-intensive databases, the RAM allocated to the heavy hitters are between 8-10 gigs.

    B250m1 Stats From UCS

    B250m1 Stats From Virtual Center

    Now for the actual utilization statistics.  The following is from Virtual Center showing the physical B250-M1 database server.  You can see that the CPUs are more highly used in this environment.

    B250m1 VC Utilization

    Again, this is a mix between Windows Remote desktop and Oracle (RedHat Linux) database servers.  The following shows utilization information perm VM.

    B250m1_2 VM Utilization

    Hopefully this gives you a little more information concerning Oracle, VMware, Cisco UCS, and consolidation ratios for the full-width blades. Again, this server is running 98gigs of RAM.  Next purchase cycle, we will be upgrading the amount of RAM in all of our blades to get better consolidation.

    • ~ by Kevin Goodman on June 1, 2010.

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    3. Thank you for posting this information. I am just about to kick off an almost identical implementation. On the dual X5570′s in the B200 or B250 blades are you seeing any CPU contention in terms of CPU ready times or other performance bottlenecks?

      Kevin Heide said this on June 5, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    4. Sorry for the delay in my response. It’s been really busy at work. So far we have not seen any bottlenecks or latency issues with the CPUs. Even our oracle database administrator saw huge gain in CPU tests between an IBM 3850M2 system and the new UCS system. Feel free to email me kevin colovirt.com if you have anymore questions.

      Kevin Goodman said this on June 9, 2010 at 3:26 pm

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