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AMD EPYCTM PROCESSORS FOR HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE: CAPTURE THE FULL BENEFIT OF HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

Ramp Up Your Business application performance with AMD EPYC™ processors for hyperconverged infrastructure.

AMD EPYC™ processors are the highest performing CPU for your hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)1. EPYC is a performance leader for virtualized business workloads2 and is certified and optimized for hybrid cloud deployments. Architected with innovative modern security features and the only server processor with full Secure Encrypted , AMD EPYC processors deliver application performance that helps you AMD EPYC capture the full economic benefit of HCI. WORLD RECORD Performance Leadership3

LEADERSHIP PERFORMANCE AMD EPYC processors hold over 170 Performance World Records3 across all workload categories – including Enterprise Applications, Defined Infrastructure, High Performance Computing, and Big Data Analytics. AMD EPYC processors deliver a 167% higher score with 3.1 times the VMs as competitive solutions on the VMmark® 3.1 benchmark1.

LEADERSHIP SECURITY FEATURES INNOVATIVE SECURITY AMD INFINITY GUARD provides a set of advanced security features with a silicon- features that help protect embedded processor that helps your organization take control of security and minimize critical data with no changes risks to your most important assets. to applications required New 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors are built with the capability to isolate and encrypt virtual machines using AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) with no application changes required.

LEADING-EDGE VALUE AMD EPYC Processor based solutions can enable leading infrastructure consolidation, allowing customers to reduce the number of servers needed, potentially lowering hardware, software and ongoing power, cooling and maintenance costs.

OPPORTUNITIES OPTIMIZED for deployments on VMware®, Nutanix™ and Azure® Stack HCI Technologies

SUPPORT MORE VIRTUAL CONSOLIDATE WORKLOADS AND IMPROVE OPERATING COSTS – MACHINES ON THE SAME SW LICENSES ON FEWER PHYSICAL INCREASE PERFORMANCE/$ NUMBER OF SERVERS SERVERS TO HELP CUT CAPEX

Are you ready for the modern data center? Contact your AMD sales representative or visit https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-for-hyperconverged-infrastructure to learn more. ENDNOTES 1. 4-node, 2x 2nd Gen EPYC™ 7742 powered server scoring 24.08 Score (@ 28 tiles, https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/ digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2020-04-28-DellEMC-PowerEdge-R6525.pdf) has 2.68x the VMmark® 3.1 - vSAN™ performance of the highest competitive score of 9 Score (@ 9 tiles, https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/ pdf/vmmark/2019-08-12-Hitachi-UCPHC-V124N.pdf) on a 4-node, 2x Xeon® 8276L powered server as of 06/09/20. ROM-658 2. 47% higher score amd 56% more tiles (VMs) based on VMmark® 3.1 vSAN™ comparing 2x EPYC 7F72 scoring 13.27 @ 14 tiles (266 VMs), https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2020-04-14-DellEMC-PowerEdge-R6525. pdf compared to the next highest competitive result on 2x ® Xeon® Platinum 8276L scoring 9.00 @ 9 tiles (171 VMs), https:// www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2019-08-12-Hitachi-UCPHC-V124N.pdf). 47% higher score = 13.27/9 = 1.474x the score and 56% more tiles (VMs) = 14/9=1.555x the tiles (VMs) as of 4/14/20. VMmark is a product of VMware, Inc. ROM-639 3. For a complete list of world records see http://amd.com/worldrecords. ROM-169

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