topic Re: DL360 G6 Hyperthreading in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

DL360 G6 Hyperthreading

Ronan Mc Sorley — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:02:28 GMT

Hi

When i boot my Hp Dl360G6 it says that hyper threading is disabled. It has 2 Xeon E5504 processors.
I use this server for Hyper-V host and run several VM's on it.

I'm assuming that Hyperthreading will give me better performance on the server but how do i turn on Hyper Threading on this server i can tsee any option for it on the Rom Based Utility.

kind thanks

Re: DL360 G6 Hyperthreading

Andrew Rutter — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:32:45 GMT

hi,

According to HP. its not needed on the G^ series servers.

It can be enabled in certain ways see below link, but has no effect on server performance

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=3884319&prodTypeId=15351&objectID=c02054640

and see this support document as well

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=3884319&prodTypeId=15351&objectID=c00793902

Andy

Re: DL360 G6 Hyperthreading

David Claypool — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:01:24 GMT

Intel specs for Xeon E5504 indicate it is not a processor with hyperthreading: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=40711

It has 4 cores and if it supported HT then it would state 8 threads.