Performance Summary:

Compliance Errors:

QoS:

•   No Validation Errors Found

Physical Configuration:

Virtual Configuration:

Notes:

• The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented:
• Yes: hosts, guests
• The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre variant 1) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented:
• Yes: hosts, guests
• The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre variant 2) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented:
• Yes: hosts, guests
• The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646 (Foreshadow) are mitigated in the system as tested and documented:
• Yes: hosts, guests

Hardware Notes:

Compute Node:

• BIOS settings used:
• Workload Profile: Max Performance
• Memory SPEED: 4800MHz
• Sub NUMA Cluster (SNC): SNC4

Storage:

• VMware vSAN 8.0 U1 was used for all workload VMs and SUT templates
• 3 x Disk Group per host
• 2 Disk Group have
• 1 x NS8600G2 6.4T U.2 SSD for vSAN cache, 4 x NS8600G2 6.4T U.2 SSD for vSAN storage
• 1 Disk Group has
• 1 x NS8600G2 6.4T U.2 SSD for vSAN cache, 5 x NS8600G2 6.4T U.2 SSD for vSAN storage

Network:

• vSwitch0 for Management on vmnic4 at 100Gbps,MTU=9000
• DSwitch for vSAN and vMotion on vmnic3 at 100Gbps,MTU=9000
• vSwitch1 for SUT VMs on vmnic1 at 100Gbps,MTU=9000

Management Node:

• VCSA resides on Client host node

Software Notes:

Compute Node:

• ESXi Advanced Settings:
• Cpu.CreditAgePeriod = 1000
• Cpu.HTWholeCoreThreshold = 0
• DataMover.HardwareAccelerateInit = 0
• DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedMove = 0
• Mem.ShareScanGHz = 0
• Numa.LTermFairnessInterval = 0
• Numa.PageMigEnable = 0
• Numa.PreferHT = 1
• Power.CpuPolicy = High Performance

Management Node:

• SUT cluster is configured with DRS enabled, fully automatic
• vSphere DRS Migration Threshold level set to 4

Client Driver Notes:

• All svdc clients and the svdc-director were VMs created using SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 template.
• Each svdc client has 12 vCPUs, 20GB memory, 16GB disk, 1 virtio_scsi device and 1 virtio_net device
• The svdc-director has 8 vCPUs, 24GB memory, 12GB disk1, 75GB disk2, 1 virtio_scsi device and 2 virtio_net devices.
• vSwitch0 for Management and VM Network on vmnic2 at 100Gbps,MTU=9000

Other Notes:

• None

Performance Details: