Replacing HP 360/380 G7's. CPU question.

[opethdisciple]

So our server currently have Xeon X5675 Cpu's

We are thinking of replacing them with 360/380 G10 servers which have Xeon Silver 4110 CPU's in them.

Do you think this is a worthy upgrade?

 

[opethdisciple]

Thank you all.

You are correct. It depends on work load and our procurement manager has been using Passmark to judge the cpu's. I guess the workload is mixed. Mostly running VM's but within those VM's the workload might be more suited to higher clock speed rather than multicores. But then the multicore is go for running multiple VM's.

We are also looking at a Gold Intel CPU 6 cores but higher clock speed. Might be better.

We are concerned about the recent Spectre and Meltdown bugs. It's a high security environment so we need to plug the holes.

BIOS updates are not available for our existing hardware hence the need to upgrade.