We have run the validation procedure on a machine from an additional vendor: Supermicro.
Supermicro test machine abbreviated specs:
- Dual AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core Processor 2.8 GHz, 225W
- 1024GB (16x64GB) 3200MHz DDR4 RDIMM
- 10x7.68TB NVMe SSD
Note that the configuration of each of these components exceeds the Gen2 specs.
Validation Results:
- Stress tests - Passed
- System benchmarks - Passed
- As with other Gen2 configurations, about a 2x performance increase for cpu and memory.
- Disk performance similar or better to previous gen hardware.
- SEV-SNP capability - Verified BIOS and kernel support working in tandem - Passed
The sysbench tool used in previous validation runs gave us some trouble and odd numbers. We switched to fio which provided more stable and predictable performance. The validation procedure is being updated and will be run again on previous machines to maintain a fair comparison.
We have updated the node provider hardware wiki to include this configuration.