No, Superdome X is not the name of the stadium where they played in the last Super Bowl. Rather, Superdome X is HP’s top of the line server running Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014. It can handle up to 288-cores and 24TB of memory! It use the HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7440c storage array which consists of 224 SSD drives (480GB/drive) for a total of 107TB of disk space.
It set the highest TPC-H metric for 10TB SQL Server 2014 workloads (see HPE Integrity Superdome X achieves two world records on TPC-H benchmark). It is perfect for high-end OLTP and medium-sized mixed workloads. It is a mixed workload system, which is a system that will support running two independent workloads (OLTP and data warehouse) concurrently on the same platform on two physical partitions.
The Superdome X platform is ideally suited for solving the scalability and performance needs of these mixed workload environments, allowing a single hardware platform to be logically partitioned to support multiple environments and workloads with dynamic adjustments to the processor, memory, and storage needs of each environment over time.
It’s efficiently bladed form factor allows you to start small and grow as your business demands increase. As your databases grow or you need to support new applications, or when your application usage increases, you can efficiently scale up your environment by adding blades. You can start as small as a 2-socket configuration and scale up all the way to 16 sockets.
More info:
Video When To Run Mission Critical Applications on Superdome X
