product brief The Engine for Digital Transformation in the Data Center Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v4 Product Family From individual servers and workstations to clusters, data centers, and clouds, IT organizations face increasing pressure to improve performance, security, agility, and utilization throughout their compute, storage, and network infrastructurewhile minimizing their total cost of ownership. The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family addresses all these 1 needs. These processors take performance and efficiency to new heights across the widest range of workloads, while providing an array of new technologies for more efficient virtualization, smarter resource orchestration, and enhanced protection of systems and data. The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family can help businesses, cloud service providers and telecommunications companies get higher performance and value from every new server, while accelerating their move toward the next-generation efficiencies of software-defined infrastructure (SDI). Up to 47% faster, 27% Average Generational Performance Gain Across 2 Key Industry-Standard Workloads and Applications Designed specifically for two-socket servers, the Intel Xeon processor 3 E5-2600 v4 product family provides over 20 percent more cores and cache than the previous generation, supports faster memory, and includes integrated technologies for accelerating critical workloads, such as database transactions and vector operations. These processors include Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) Technology for fast, resilient system communications with up to 9.6 GT/s of QPI speed per channel. They also include key improvements in virtualization efficiency that can help to boost application performance and consolidation ratios throughout todays virtualized data centers and clouds. More execution resources for higher overall performance. With up to 22 cores per socket, up to 55 MB of last-level cache (LLC), and support for up to 12 4 percent faster DDR4 memory versus previous-generation memory, the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family increases performance across a 2 broad range of workloads , from business and technical computing applica - tions to communications and storage solutions. These processors come in a wide variety of configurations, so core counts, frequencies, and power levels can be tailored for individual workloads to deliver optimal performance. Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v4 Product Family 2 Higher performance for multi-threaded workloads. priority applications and make better decisions regarding Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions workload placement, load balancing, and consolidation (Intel TSX) exposes hidden parallelism to help boost ratios. The data can also be used to deliver tiered services performance for online transaction processing (OLTP) with metered charge back. and other multi-threaded workloads that are currently M emory Bandwidth Monitoring (MBM). With granular slowed by memory locking. visibility into memory bandwidth usage, IT can balance Higher performance for mixed workloads. Intel Advanced workloads across sockets to avoid contention, improve Vector Extensions 2.0 doubles the number of floating point utilization, and deliver higher service levels. operations (flops) per clock cycle versus first generation C ode and Data Prioritization (CDP). Code and data Intel AVX. New optimizations in the Intel Xeon processor placement in the LLC can now be programmatically E5-2600 v4 product family enable higher core frequencies controlled to help optimize performance and code isolation for concurrent applications that dont use Intel AVX2, which for applications that have large code footprints or high helps to optimize overall performance for mixed workloads. sensitivity to code residency in the last-level cache. Faster access to critical data. Enhanced Intel Data End-to-end power management. Intel Node Manager 3.0 Directed I/O allows direct data transfers to last level cache offers real-time telemetry data on server power, thermal, (LLC) with optimized LLC-to-core communications. Main and utilization levels, so IT can implement policies for memory is bypassed completely to provide high-speed, enhanced orchestration, improved data center efficiency, low-latency data access that is ideal for todays increasingly and more efficient power utilization. data-hungry applications. E nhanced virtualization. Intel Virtual Machine Control A Better Foundation for Trust and Security Structure (VMCS) shadowing extends root virtual machine The volume and sophistication of digital threats continue to monitor (VMM)-like privileges to a guest VMM to provide escalate. The Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v4 product more flexible support for legacy code and deep security family adds additional layers of hardware-assisted security monitoring. Additional virtualization enhancements in the to help protect data and platforms more effectively through Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family enable enhanced workload isolation, improved security policy fewer and faster transitions to the VMM through Posted enforcement, and faster cryptography. Interrupts and other innovations, so more compute cycles Up to 70 percent increased per-core performance on key can be devoted to virtual machine performance. Support 5 encryption algorithms. New instructions (such as ADCX/ for Page Modification Logging has also been added to ADOX and PCLMULQDQ micro-architecture) in the Intel enable high-end availability for virtual machines while Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family help to acceler- reducing performance overhead. ate secure session initiation protocols based on RSA, ECC, and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA). Intel Data Protection Smarter Orchestration Through Technology with Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Built-In Instrumentation Instructions (Intel AES-NI) has also been improved to With the growth of private and hybrid clouds in the enable even faster bulk data encryption. With these enterprise, IT organizations are deploying powerful new technologies, protecting data at rest and during transmis- tools for orchestrating and automating data center resource sion is practically transparent for many workloads. management. The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product Enhanced Key Security. The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 family includes Intel Resource Director Technology, which v4 family provides an integrated random number generator provides deeper visibility and control over shared platform for creating security keys and a random bit generator for resources to enable smarter orchestration. This suite of seeding software-based solutions. Both technologies help technologies, which will continue to evolve in the future, to provide high quality keys for enhanced security. can help IT organizations improve service levels and infrastructure utilization and accelerate their move toward S trong protection against platform attacks. Intel Plat- fully-automated SDI. form Protection Technology with OS Guard (Supervisor Mode Execution Protection) has been enhanced with new C ache Monitoring and Allocation Technologies (CMT & Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP). These tech- CAT). The ability to monitor and allocate LLC usage for nologies work together to prevent privileged code in the individual applications and virtual machines can help IT operating system from executing or even accessing data provide more reliable performance guarantees for high