TurboHT in ESX4

[geiger]

I just got in 2 E5500 based servers. Is it still advised to disable HT on these boxes or does ESX play better with nuHT?

 

[sabregen]

good question, don't know the answer. If this damned Quadro issue wasn't giving me such a headache, I'd try it out, myself. Machine that's giving me headache is 2x 5560's on an X8DA3 board.

 

[lopoetve]

Best way to find out is to try. I think it works pretty well though.

 

[acra2]

Leave the HT on. Get better gains running vsphere 4 with this config thou.

 

[oDii]

Sadly Anandtech hasn't gone into great detail of performance with E5500 servers and ESX4, however a review quick to hand reveals quite a difference when testing on ESX3.5.

 

[geiger]

Looks like ESXi 4 sees 4x2 cores and handles the HT internally. I'll see how it performs.