Compared to the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 with Smart Array P440ar Controller If your organization runs Oracle Database for OLTP workloads, moving to a Dell PowerEdge R7625 with PERC 12 could be a choice that improves your overall performance and allows you to consolidate your data center hardware. In our tests, the PowerEdge R7625 with PERC 12 delivered 6.3 times the total NOPM and supported 2.5 times the number of VMs the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 server did. By harnessing the power of the latest in RAID controller technology, the PowerEdge R7625 can provide an upgraded Oracle Database experience compared to the competitor we tested.