By automating high-touch, routine tasks, Dell EMC OME integrations and plugins empower IT admins to deliver effective and efficient systems management from a single console.
Reap better SQL Server OLTP performance with next-generation Dell EMC PowerEd...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes testing that compared the performance of new Dell EMC PowerEdge MX750c servers to current Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c servers. The testing found that:
- A cluster of the new servers achieved 36.1% more SQL Server transaction processing work (orders per minute) than a cluster of the current servers, while also lowering application response time by 8%.
- With the same number of virtual machines, the new server cluster achieved 18.7% more transactions than the current cluster and an 18.4% lower response time.
- By adding one more virtual machine per new server, the new cluster achieved a 36.1% higher transaction rate than the current cluster
Get improved performance and new features from Dell EMC PowerEdge servers wit...Principled Technologies
We put 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge servers to the test with a variety of workloads to see the benefits and features your organization could expect from this latest offering
Create useful data center health visualizations with Dell iDRAC Telemetry Ref...Principled Technologies
Dell EMC™ has recently released Telemetry Reference tools for the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC). The Telemetry Reference toolset enables data center engineers to ingest and structure telemetry data streams for visualization with Elastic Stack software. This report serves as a how-to guide for setting up and configuring these components within your own environment.
Prepare images for machine learning faster with servers powered by AMD EPYC 7...Principled Technologies
A server cluster with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors achieved higher throughput and took less time to prepare images for classification than a server cluster with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 processors
Consolidate SAS 9.4 workloads with Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 and Intel SSD t...Principled Technologies
A key to modernizing your data center is to consolidate your legacy workloads through virtualization, which can help reduce complexity for your business. Fewer servers require fewer physical resources, such as power, cabling, and switches, and reduce the burden on IT for ongoing management tasks such as updates. In addition, integrating newer hardware technology into your data center can provide new features that strengthen your infrastructure, such as RAS features on the processor and disk performance improvements. Finally, using SAS 9.4 ensures that you have the latest features and toolsets that SAS can offer.
Compared to a legacy server, we found that a modern four-socket server powered by Intel Xeon processors E7-8890 v3 with Intel SSD DC P3700 Series provided 12 times the amount of SAS work, nearly 14 times the relative performance, and a shorter average time to complete the SAS workload. Running 12 virtual SAS instances also left capacity on the server for additional work. Consolidating your SAS workloads from legacy servers onto servers powered by Intel Xeon processors E7 v3 and SAS 9.4 can provide your business with the latest hardware and software features, reduce complexity in your data center, and potentially reduce costs for your business.
AWS EC2 M6i instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors accelerated...Principled Technologies
At multiple instance sizes, M6i instances classified more frames per second than M5n instances with previous-gen processors or M6a instances with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors
Reap better SQL Server OLTP performance with next-generation Dell EMC PowerEd...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes testing that compared the performance of new Dell EMC PowerEdge MX750c servers to current Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c servers. The testing found that:
- A cluster of the new servers achieved 36.1% more SQL Server transaction processing work (orders per minute) than a cluster of the current servers, while also lowering application response time by 8%.
- With the same number of virtual machines, the new server cluster achieved 18.7% more transactions than the current cluster and an 18.4% lower response time.
- By adding one more virtual machine per new server, the new cluster achieved a 36.1% higher transaction rate than the current cluster
Get improved performance and new features from Dell EMC PowerEdge servers wit...Principled Technologies
We put 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge servers to the test with a variety of workloads to see the benefits and features your organization could expect from this latest offering
Create useful data center health visualizations with Dell iDRAC Telemetry Ref...Principled Technologies
Dell EMC™ has recently released Telemetry Reference tools for the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC). The Telemetry Reference toolset enables data center engineers to ingest and structure telemetry data streams for visualization with Elastic Stack software. This report serves as a how-to guide for setting up and configuring these components within your own environment.
Prepare images for machine learning faster with servers powered by AMD EPYC 7...Principled Technologies
A server cluster with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors achieved higher throughput and took less time to prepare images for classification than a server cluster with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 processors
Consolidate SAS 9.4 workloads with Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 and Intel SSD t...Principled Technologies
A key to modernizing your data center is to consolidate your legacy workloads through virtualization, which can help reduce complexity for your business. Fewer servers require fewer physical resources, such as power, cabling, and switches, and reduce the burden on IT for ongoing management tasks such as updates. In addition, integrating newer hardware technology into your data center can provide new features that strengthen your infrastructure, such as RAS features on the processor and disk performance improvements. Finally, using SAS 9.4 ensures that you have the latest features and toolsets that SAS can offer.
Compared to a legacy server, we found that a modern four-socket server powered by Intel Xeon processors E7-8890 v3 with Intel SSD DC P3700 Series provided 12 times the amount of SAS work, nearly 14 times the relative performance, and a shorter average time to complete the SAS workload. Running 12 virtual SAS instances also left capacity on the server for additional work. Consolidating your SAS workloads from legacy servers onto servers powered by Intel Xeon processors E7 v3 and SAS 9.4 can provide your business with the latest hardware and software features, reduce complexity in your data center, and potentially reduce costs for your business.
AWS EC2 M6i instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors accelerated...Principled Technologies
At multiple instance sizes, M6i instances classified more frames per second than M5n instances with previous-gen processors or M6a instances with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors
3 key wins: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with OpenManage Enterprise over Cisco UCS a...Principled Technologies
In head-to-head tests, the modular Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ MX7000 with
OpenManage™ Enterprise reduced admin time and effort on repetitive tasks when compared to Cisco UCS® 5108 with Cisco UCS Manager and HPE Synergy with OneView.
VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 offered greater VM density and increased availabili...Principled Technologies
vSphere not only supported more VMs than the container native virtualization approach in OpenShift, but it required less downtime and less hands-on admin time
The document compares the performance of migrating virtual machines between chassis using VMware vMotion on three modular server solutions: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX, HPE Synergy, and Cisco UCS. Testing showed the Dell EMC solution moved VMs between chassis up to 42.3% faster than the other solutions, with throughput up to 1.7x higher and latency up to 73.0% lower. This allows maintenance to be completed more quickly and with less impact on workloads.
Ensure greater uptime and boost VMware vSAN cluster performance with the Del...Principled Technologies
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with VMware vSAN Ready Nodes delivered a 55.9% faster response time than a Cisco UCS solution and a 41.3% faster response time than an HPE Synergy solution
Your datacenter is capable of doing great things—if you let it. Upgrades from Intel for compute, storage, and networking components can help your business support new services and expand your customer base. In our hands-on testing, we found that new Intel processors, high-bandwidth network components, and SATA or PCIe SSDs working together can boost your datacenter’s capabilities, which could translate to better business operations for your organization.
Component upgrades from Intel and Dell can increase VM density and boost perf...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes an experiment conducted by Principled Technologies that tested the performance improvements from upgrading server components. They found that upgrading from a Dell PowerEdge R720 to a Dell PowerEdge R730 server, along with upgrading the processor, operating system, storage drives and network cards, increased the number of supported VMs by 67% and database performance by 60%. Upgrading all components maximized performance benefits.
Proper resource allocation is critical to achieving top application performance in a virtualized environment. Resource contention degrades performance and underutilization can lead to costly server sprawl.
We found that adding VMTurbo to a VMware vSphere 5.5 cluster and following its reallocation recommendations gave our application performance a big boost. After reducing vCPU count, increasing memory allocation to active databases, and moving VMs to more responsive storage as VMTurbo directed, online transactions increased by 23.7 percent while latency dropped significantly. Avoid the pitfalls of poorly allocated VM resources and give your virtualized application every advantage by gaining control of your environment at every level.
Symantec NetBackup 7.6 benchmark comparison: Data protection in a large-scale...Principled Technologies
The footprint of a VM can grow quickly in an enterprise environment and large-scale VM deployments in the thousands are common. As this number of deployed systems grows, so does the risk of failure. Critical failures can become unavoidable and offering data protection from a backup solution promotes business continuity. Elongated protection windows requiring multiple jobs of different types can create resource contention with production environments and may require valuable IT admin time, so a finite window for system backups can have plenty of importance.
In our hands-on SAN backup testing, the Symantec NetBackup Integrated Appliance running NetBackup 7.6 offered application protection to 1,000 VMs in 66.8 percent less time than Competitor “E” did. In addition, the Symantec NetBackup Integrated Appliance with NetBackup 7.6 created backup images that offered granular recovery without additional steps. These time and effort savings can scale as your VM footprint grows, allowing you to execute both system protection and user-friendly, simplified recovery.
Spend less time, effort, and money by choosing a Dell EMC server with pre-ins...Principled Technologies
Deploying a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 with pre-installed Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard took less time and fewer steps than deploying the same server without it
SQL Server 2016 database performance on the Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 QLogic 1...Principled Technologies
Upgrading the hardware running your SQL Server to a space-efficient modular Dell EMC modern environment can help your company achieve a great deal of database work in a small amount of space. With the Dell Express Flash technology, adding a caching solution such as Samsung AutoCache can make the environment even more efficient.
In the PT labs, we ran a mixed database workload on six Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 servers, powered by Intel Xeon E5-2667 processors, in three PowerEdge FX2 enclosures. The solution included the QLogic QLE2692 16Gb FC adapter with StorFusion Technology, Dell EMC Storage SC9000 all-flash storage, and Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe Performance PCIe SSDs.
With no caching solution, the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs on the six servers achieved a total of 431,839 orders per minute while an Oracle workload ran on 12 VMs. When we added a caching solution to accelerate the SQL database volumes, the performance across the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs doubled to 871,580. These numbers show the power of server-side caching to alleviate pressure on the storage array allowing you to get even more out of the Dell EMC modern environment.
Give DevOps teams self-service resource pools within your private infrastruct...Principled Technologies
Sean, an IT operations team lead, sets up a test environment using Dell Technologies APEX Private Cloud and APEX Data Storage Services running on VMware vSphere with Tanzu to demonstrate self-service capabilities for a DevOps team. The solution allows setting up namespaces for self-service resource provisioning, virtual machine and Kubernetes cluster self-service, and storage policies. By testing the creation of Kubernetes clusters, VMs, and an application environment, the solution is shown to empower DevOps teams with self-service capabilities while maintaining controls and budgets.
Slow performance and unavailable critical applications can impinge a company’s progress. You can apply patches and updates to improve application quality and user experience, but these changes need to be tested in resource-intensive environments before deployment. Keeping these applications accessing data is vital, too, as on-premises events can put availability at risk.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. As we added VMs designed for test/dev environments, the production workload maintained an acceptable level of IOPS and achieved an average storage latency of less than a millisecond. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime and no performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. To run critical database applications of your company, consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F for your datacenter.
In our tests, we found that the HP Z8 tower with Intel Xeon Gold 6226R processors completed three sample media and entertainment tasks in up to 44 percent less time than the Apple Mac Pro with Intel Xeon W-3275M processor, while adding only 11 percent to the purchase price.
Get higher transaction throughput and better price/performance with an Amazon...Principled Technologies
In addition, the EBS gp3-backed EC2 r5b.16xlarge instance delivered a lower average transaction latency to offer more consistent transactional database performance than two Microsoft Azure E64ds_v4 VM configurations
Business-critical applications on VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and V...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes performance testing of VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and VMware NSX running business-critical applications. In single-site testing, the solution delivered over 189,000 IOPS and 5ms average read latency under heavy workload. In two-site testing, it live migrated all VMs between sites in under 9 minutes with no downtime or performance degradation for applications. The software-defined datacenter solution provided reliable performance and business continuity for critical workloads.
A single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 solution delivered better value on a...Principled Technologies
If your company is running important business applications in VMware vSAN clusters of servers that are several years old, chances are good that you’re considering upgrading to newer hardware. Our testing demonstrated that our clusters of single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 servers and clusters of dual-socket HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers could both improve upon the database performance of a legacy cluster with five-year-old servers by more than 50 percent, with the Dell EMC cluster achieving 93.4 percent of the performance of the HPE cluster.
A company’s success depends on critical application performance and availability. Upgrades and patches can improve application efficiency and user experience, but making the necessary changes requires resource intensive environments to test updates before deploying them. What’s more, these applications need to continue accessing data even in the event of an on-premises crisis.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. Storage latency for the VMAX 250F peaked at a millisecond in our testing while IOPS stayed within an acceptable range. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime or performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. Consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F array for your datacenter to support the critical database applications that drive your company.
Migrate VMs faster with a new Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution - Infographic Principled Technologies
The document summarizes a report about the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution. It states that the PowerEdge MX solution is designed for kinetic infrastructure, allowing servers and storage to be swapped out flexibly as needs change. It can also scale from one to ten chassis quickly and easily. Testing showed the PowerEdge MX solution evacuated VMs up to 42.3% faster and achieved up to 73.0% lower latency and 1.7X more throughput than competing HPE and Cisco solutions.
with the Dell OpenManage Enterprise Services plug-in
In our OME + OMES versus SCG + OME comparison, we found that the OMES plug-in enabled us to do
everything through a single console instead of toggling between the OME and Services consoles through
an adapter. Reducing the number of virtual appliances you need to deploy and manage in your server
environment is an additional advantage. Another is streamlining credential management. These overarching advantages can help companies divert admin resources to other important initiatives.
With new automation tools, tying up your administrator’s time with repetitive processes can become a thing of the past. Our tests showed how Dell ASM, with the ability to build deployment templates, can save significant administrator time and steps compared to a solution that lacks these features. In an age where business IT demands grow rapidly, providing administrators with the right tools to manage their virtualized infrastructure is critical for keeping your datacenter running efficiently.
3 key wins: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with OpenManage Enterprise over Cisco UCS a...Principled Technologies
In head-to-head tests, the modular Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ MX7000 with
OpenManage™ Enterprise reduced admin time and effort on repetitive tasks when compared to Cisco UCS® 5108 with Cisco UCS Manager and HPE Synergy with OneView.
VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 offered greater VM density and increased availabili...Principled Technologies
vSphere not only supported more VMs than the container native virtualization approach in OpenShift, but it required less downtime and less hands-on admin time
The document compares the performance of migrating virtual machines between chassis using VMware vMotion on three modular server solutions: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX, HPE Synergy, and Cisco UCS. Testing showed the Dell EMC solution moved VMs between chassis up to 42.3% faster than the other solutions, with throughput up to 1.7x higher and latency up to 73.0% lower. This allows maintenance to be completed more quickly and with less impact on workloads.
Ensure greater uptime and boost VMware vSAN cluster performance with the Del...Principled Technologies
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with VMware vSAN Ready Nodes delivered a 55.9% faster response time than a Cisco UCS solution and a 41.3% faster response time than an HPE Synergy solution
Your datacenter is capable of doing great things—if you let it. Upgrades from Intel for compute, storage, and networking components can help your business support new services and expand your customer base. In our hands-on testing, we found that new Intel processors, high-bandwidth network components, and SATA or PCIe SSDs working together can boost your datacenter’s capabilities, which could translate to better business operations for your organization.
Component upgrades from Intel and Dell can increase VM density and boost perf...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes an experiment conducted by Principled Technologies that tested the performance improvements from upgrading server components. They found that upgrading from a Dell PowerEdge R720 to a Dell PowerEdge R730 server, along with upgrading the processor, operating system, storage drives and network cards, increased the number of supported VMs by 67% and database performance by 60%. Upgrading all components maximized performance benefits.
Proper resource allocation is critical to achieving top application performance in a virtualized environment. Resource contention degrades performance and underutilization can lead to costly server sprawl.
We found that adding VMTurbo to a VMware vSphere 5.5 cluster and following its reallocation recommendations gave our application performance a big boost. After reducing vCPU count, increasing memory allocation to active databases, and moving VMs to more responsive storage as VMTurbo directed, online transactions increased by 23.7 percent while latency dropped significantly. Avoid the pitfalls of poorly allocated VM resources and give your virtualized application every advantage by gaining control of your environment at every level.
Symantec NetBackup 7.6 benchmark comparison: Data protection in a large-scale...Principled Technologies
The footprint of a VM can grow quickly in an enterprise environment and large-scale VM deployments in the thousands are common. As this number of deployed systems grows, so does the risk of failure. Critical failures can become unavoidable and offering data protection from a backup solution promotes business continuity. Elongated protection windows requiring multiple jobs of different types can create resource contention with production environments and may require valuable IT admin time, so a finite window for system backups can have plenty of importance.
In our hands-on SAN backup testing, the Symantec NetBackup Integrated Appliance running NetBackup 7.6 offered application protection to 1,000 VMs in 66.8 percent less time than Competitor “E” did. In addition, the Symantec NetBackup Integrated Appliance with NetBackup 7.6 created backup images that offered granular recovery without additional steps. These time and effort savings can scale as your VM footprint grows, allowing you to execute both system protection and user-friendly, simplified recovery.
Spend less time, effort, and money by choosing a Dell EMC server with pre-ins...Principled Technologies
Deploying a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 with pre-installed Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard took less time and fewer steps than deploying the same server without it
SQL Server 2016 database performance on the Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 QLogic 1...Principled Technologies
Upgrading the hardware running your SQL Server to a space-efficient modular Dell EMC modern environment can help your company achieve a great deal of database work in a small amount of space. With the Dell Express Flash technology, adding a caching solution such as Samsung AutoCache can make the environment even more efficient.
In the PT labs, we ran a mixed database workload on six Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 servers, powered by Intel Xeon E5-2667 processors, in three PowerEdge FX2 enclosures. The solution included the QLogic QLE2692 16Gb FC adapter with StorFusion Technology, Dell EMC Storage SC9000 all-flash storage, and Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe Performance PCIe SSDs.
With no caching solution, the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs on the six servers achieved a total of 431,839 orders per minute while an Oracle workload ran on 12 VMs. When we added a caching solution to accelerate the SQL database volumes, the performance across the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs doubled to 871,580. These numbers show the power of server-side caching to alleviate pressure on the storage array allowing you to get even more out of the Dell EMC modern environment.
Give DevOps teams self-service resource pools within your private infrastruct...Principled Technologies
Sean, an IT operations team lead, sets up a test environment using Dell Technologies APEX Private Cloud and APEX Data Storage Services running on VMware vSphere with Tanzu to demonstrate self-service capabilities for a DevOps team. The solution allows setting up namespaces for self-service resource provisioning, virtual machine and Kubernetes cluster self-service, and storage policies. By testing the creation of Kubernetes clusters, VMs, and an application environment, the solution is shown to empower DevOps teams with self-service capabilities while maintaining controls and budgets.
Slow performance and unavailable critical applications can impinge a company’s progress. You can apply patches and updates to improve application quality and user experience, but these changes need to be tested in resource-intensive environments before deployment. Keeping these applications accessing data is vital, too, as on-premises events can put availability at risk.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. As we added VMs designed for test/dev environments, the production workload maintained an acceptable level of IOPS and achieved an average storage latency of less than a millisecond. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime and no performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. To run critical database applications of your company, consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F for your datacenter.
In our tests, we found that the HP Z8 tower with Intel Xeon Gold 6226R processors completed three sample media and entertainment tasks in up to 44 percent less time than the Apple Mac Pro with Intel Xeon W-3275M processor, while adding only 11 percent to the purchase price.
Get higher transaction throughput and better price/performance with an Amazon...Principled Technologies
In addition, the EBS gp3-backed EC2 r5b.16xlarge instance delivered a lower average transaction latency to offer more consistent transactional database performance than two Microsoft Azure E64ds_v4 VM configurations
Business-critical applications on VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and V...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes performance testing of VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and VMware NSX running business-critical applications. In single-site testing, the solution delivered over 189,000 IOPS and 5ms average read latency under heavy workload. In two-site testing, it live migrated all VMs between sites in under 9 minutes with no downtime or performance degradation for applications. The software-defined datacenter solution provided reliable performance and business continuity for critical workloads.
A single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 solution delivered better value on a...Principled Technologies
If your company is running important business applications in VMware vSAN clusters of servers that are several years old, chances are good that you’re considering upgrading to newer hardware. Our testing demonstrated that our clusters of single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 servers and clusters of dual-socket HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers could both improve upon the database performance of a legacy cluster with five-year-old servers by more than 50 percent, with the Dell EMC cluster achieving 93.4 percent of the performance of the HPE cluster.
A company’s success depends on critical application performance and availability. Upgrades and patches can improve application efficiency and user experience, but making the necessary changes requires resource intensive environments to test updates before deploying them. What’s more, these applications need to continue accessing data even in the event of an on-premises crisis.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. Storage latency for the VMAX 250F peaked at a millisecond in our testing while IOPS stayed within an acceptable range. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime or performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. Consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F array for your datacenter to support the critical database applications that drive your company.
Migrate VMs faster with a new Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution - Infographic Principled Technologies
The document summarizes a report about the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution. It states that the PowerEdge MX solution is designed for kinetic infrastructure, allowing servers and storage to be swapped out flexibly as needs change. It can also scale from one to ten chassis quickly and easily. Testing showed the PowerEdge MX solution evacuated VMs up to 42.3% faster and achieved up to 73.0% lower latency and 1.7X more throughput than competing HPE and Cisco solutions.
with the Dell OpenManage Enterprise Services plug-in
In our OME + OMES versus SCG + OME comparison, we found that the OMES plug-in enabled us to do
everything through a single console instead of toggling between the OME and Services consoles through
an adapter. Reducing the number of virtual appliances you need to deploy and manage in your server
environment is an additional advantage. Another is streamlining credential management. These overarching advantages can help companies divert admin resources to other important initiatives.
With new automation tools, tying up your administrator’s time with repetitive processes can become a thing of the past. Our tests showed how Dell ASM, with the ability to build deployment templates, can save significant administrator time and steps compared to a solution that lacks these features. In an age where business IT demands grow rapidly, providing administrators with the right tools to manage their virtualized infrastructure is critical for keeping your datacenter running efficiently.
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution required 89.4 percent less admin time to deploy multiple server nodes and 15 fewer steps to update firmware on multiple systems
Faster and more efficient system management with Lenovo XClarity AdministratorPrincipled Technologies
Lenovo XClarity Administrator provides significant time savings over manual administration of Lenovo Flex System chassis and nodes. It automates tasks like discovery and inventory, server configuration, deployment of VMware ESXi to bare metal nodes, and applying firmware updates. Testing across three use cases found XClarity Administrator reduced time by 95% and steps by 75% compared to manual administration. Faster, more efficient management allows IT staff to focus on other priorities.
Simplifying systems management with Dell OpenManage on 13G Dell PowerEdge ser...Principled Technologies
- The document discusses new systems management features in Dell's 13th generation (13G) PowerEdge servers and the latest versions of the Dell OpenManage management suite.
- Testing showed the new features simplified deployment, connectivity, maintenance, and updating tasks, saving significant administrator time and steps compared to previous generations. For example, deploying configurations to 100 servers took 99.92% less time.
- Key new features include automated configuration, one-to-many deployment, improved iDRAC connectivity options, centralized monitoring and reporting, and self-updating firmware.
Streamline server deployment and configuration: Dell OpenManage Enterprise wi...Principled Technologies
In our hands-on tests, the OpenManage Enterprise with OMEVV solution took less time and fewer steps than VMware vSphere Auto Deploy for Stateful Installation of ESXi to a bare-metal server host
Deploying servers can be a time-consuming task but it doesn’t have to be. In a VMware-based Dell PowerEdge environment, we found that using Dell OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware vCenter to configure and deploy bare-metal server hosts greatly reduced the administrative burden in terms of time and complexity compared to using VMware vSphere Auto Deploy. In addition, by letting our technician perform these tasks in up to 74 percent less administrative time and with 34 percent fewer steps, Dell OMEVV is the clear winner in efficiency and complexity, all from a single console with the added benefit of introducing customers to the host of other OME features.
To streamline your deployment of new ESXi servers and optimize your administrator’s time, choose Dell OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware vCenter.
Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.0 delivered faster server power monitoring and capping vs. completing tasks manually
Knowing an controlling how much power your servers use is a critical step in improving sustainability and managing your organization’s carbon footprint. It could also help your bottom line by potentially
reducing power bills. Simplifying server power monitoring and management tasks can mean saving time and effort for IT admins, too. If you are using Dell PowerEdge servers, OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.0 automates critical tasks that can help you control, or even reduce, your data center’s power consumption faster and more easily than using manual processes with iDRAC. In addition to automating the data collection and power capping tasks we tested, the Power Manager 3.0 extension enabled us to scale out the node count without adding time and effort to the task.
Systems management savings with Dell OpenManage on 13G Dell PowerEdge servers Principled Technologies
Administrators can spend their time doing routine tasks such as firmware updates, or they can spend their time on other initiatives to make your data center and your business more successful. Older servers keep admins focused on routine tasks instead of innovation because they just don’t have the capabilities to streamline management in a meaningful way to lessen the burden of routine management tasks.
In our hands-on tests, we found that Dell PowerEdge R730 servers with Dell OpenManage dramatically reduced the time it took to deploy, update, monitor, and maintain servers compared to completing the tasks manually on older systems. We estimate that you could save as much as 91.3 percent of administrator time—nearly 800 hours—over two years for a 200-server deployment.
Don’t let your older servers continue to be a time sink for administrators. By upgrading to new Dell PowerEdge R730 servers with new systems management features to handle routine tasks, you can potentially redirect those resources to innovation in other areas.
Simplify administrator tasks and improve security and health monitoring with ...Principled Technologies
Management tools that reduce hands-on time and effort for recurring tasks provide real benefits to administrators with demanding responsibilities. In our comparison of the management portfolios from Dell and HPE, we found that the Dell tools we tested offered better ease-of use than their HPE counterparts, with many additional features and views that can streamline administrator tasks. Plus, the Dell management portfolio offered features that increase data security and allow admins to make changes without infrastructure downtime. By reducing time and effort for tasks like monitoring system health or updating firmware, your admins can focus their time on supporting key business initiatives.
This document provides an overview of Scriptomatic Solutions' Siebel Application Monitoring solution. The solution monitors key components of the Siebel application, like servers, services, and databases, and displays the status in a simple web-based dashboard. This allows issues to be quickly identified and resolved, reducing downtime and administrative overhead. The solution extracts data from the Siebel environment, loads it into a database, and presents it through customizable dashboards for easy monitoring from a single interface.
Dell OME advanced features deliver faster power monitoring capabilities plus ...Principled Technologies
Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.0 and OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware vCenter 1.0 saved time and effort on routine monitoring and management tasks vs. completing tasks manually
Dell OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware vCenter 1.0 streamlined firmware updates vs. completing the task manually
If you are using VMware-based Dell PowerEdge servers, the OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware vCenter can help you complete firmware updates faster and more easily than using manual
processes with iDRAC. This integrated, cluster-aware automation also allowed us to scale out the node count from four to eight clusters without adding time and effort to the task.
Dell OpenManage Essentials: Improve efficiency with fewer tools, more benefits Principled Technologies
Using a systems management solution that streamlines and automates common data center operations is vital to the efficient operation of your data center and the continuous availability of your infrastructure. The right servers and systems management solution can actually provide your IT organization with dramatic savings and enable greater efficiency and productivity.
We carried out three typical data center use cases using a Dell PowerEdge R630 managed with Dell OpenManage Essentials and an HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 managed with HP OneView. We found that the Dell solution reduced IT administrator time by as much as 40 percent and provided incremental systems management benefits and features. It achieved this with the additional advantage that the cost of the Dell OpenManage Essentials systems management solution is 93 percent lower than the cost of the HP OneView systems management solution.
Our conclusion: Dell OpenManage Essentials and PowerEdge servers can be excellent investments for your data center if you are interested in ease of use, cost and time savings, accuracy, and infrastructure availability.
Dell EMC CloudIQ streamlined the user experience in five cloud-based storage ...Principled Technologies
Compared to HPE InfoSight with an HPE Primera array, CloudIQ with a Dell EMC Unity array let us identify potential issues and troubleshoot problems in less time and fewer steps
The evolution of Dell EMC PowerEdge server systems management - InfographicPrincipled Technologies
Technology that anticipates your infrastructure needs before you realize them may be closer than you think. Over 13 years of hands-on testing, we’ve found that the tools in the Dell EMC™ OpenManage™ Suite have steadily improved the speed and quality of systems management.
Save IT admin time with the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX platform and OpenManage En...Principled Technologies
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution required 86.8 percent less admin time to implement VMware vSAN and 19 fewer steps to update firmware on a single system versus a Cisco UCS solution
Implementing and managing large and distributed enterprise solutions presents unique administrative challenges. Anything that can streamline the process to minimize error and save administrator time and effort can have a strong, positive effect on your company’s bottom line. We found that the Dell Chassis Management Controller made deploying Dell PowerEdge M620 blades in a Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis much quicker and easier by allowing you to import existing server profiles in just a few clicks. In our test case to configure for a common mission critical application, Citrix XenDesktop, manually deploying a full 16-blade chassis required 800 steps; but only 59 steps with Dell Chassis Management Controller, transforming a multi-hour task to one that took just minutes. Certain demanding applications can require even greater hardware configuration — these would benefit even more from the “all settings” profile capture and replication features of the Dell Chassis Management Controller.
The ability to pre-provision empty slots and export profiles for redeployment on other chassis further increases the value of the Dell Chassis Management Controller in bigger environments by largely eliminating tedious, redundant tasks and decreasing the opportunities for human error, while freeing administrators to perform other mission-critical or innovative activities. Choosing a solution that automates much of the deployment process is an asset to managing your infrastructure and your business.
Learn how to Deploy, Virtualize, Manage, Maintain, and Automate with the OpenManage Suite. Use products like iDRAC, Dell Repository Manager, OpenManage Essentials, Microsoft System Center Integrations, and VMware integrations to maximize productivity in your datacenter operations. Learn more: Dell.com/OpenManage
A Dell PowerEdge MX environment using OpenManage Enterprise and OpenManage En...Principled Technologies
Compared to a Cisco UCS-X environment using Intersight, the Dell environment streamlined making changes to VLANs and helped avoid interventions during scheduled firmware updates
Conclusion
We executed two management scenarios in a Dell PowerEdge MX environment with Dell OpenManage Enterprise and OpenManage Enterprise Modular and a Cisco UCS X-Series chassis environment with Cisco Intersight. We learned that the Dell solution’s single-part profile modification for performing VLAN updates was quicker and simpler than the Cisco solution’s two-part profile deployment, requiring 40 percent less time and two-thirds as many steps. We also compared the firmware updating process on the solutions. Being able to schedule these updates to occur automatically from the online Dell repository offered an advantage over having to manually execute the same tasks from the Cisco Intersight repositories. Namely, administrators do not need to take action during maintenance windows but can instead schedule them ahead of time. Saving time on routine tasks frees administrators to pursue innovation, and being able to avoid middle-of-the-night duties helps companies provide a better work experience for admins. Together, these advantages help make Dell PowerEdge MX servers a good candidate for companies considering upgrading the older Cisco UCS servers in their data centers.
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Help skilled workers succeed with Dell Latitude 7030 and 7230 Rugged Extreme ...Principled Technologies
Instead of equipping consumer-grade tablets with rugged cases
Conclusion
In our hands-on testing, the Dell Latitude 7030 and 7230 Rugged Extreme Tablets showed that they are better equipped to help skilled workers than consumer-grade Apple iPad Pro and Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 tablets in multiple ways. They provide more built-in capabilities and features than the consumer-grade tablets we tested. And, while they were more expensive than the rugged-case fortified consumer-grade options we tested, their rugged claims were more than skin deep.
In our performance and durability tests, the Dell Latitude 7030 and 7230 Rugged Extreme Tablets performed better in demanding manufacturing, logistics, and field service environments than consumer-grade tablets with rugged cases. Both Rugged Extreme Tablets, with their greater thermal range, suffered less performance degradation in extreme temperatures, never failed and were merely scuffed after 26 hard drops, survived a 10 minute drenching with no ill effects, and were easier to view in direct sunlight than Apple iPad Pro and Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 tablets.
Bring ideas to life with the HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation - InfographicPrincipled Technologies
We compared CPU performance and noise output of an HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation in High Performance Mode to a similarly configured Dell Precision 3660 Tower Workstation in its out-of-box performance mode
Investing in GenAI: Cost‑benefit analysis of Dell on‑premises deployments vs....Principled Technologies
Conclusion
Diving into the world of GenAI has the potential to yield a great many benefits for your organization, but it first requires consideration for how best to implement those GenAI workloads. Whether your AI goals are to create a chatbot for online visitors, generate marketing materials, aid troubleshooting, or something else, implementing an AI solution requires careful planning and decision-making. A major decision is whether to host GenAI in the cloud or keep your data on premises. Traditional on-premises solutions can provide superior security and control, a substantial concern when dealing with large amounts of potentially sensitive data. But will supporting a GenAI solution on site be a drain on an organization’s IT budget?
In our research, we found that the value proposition is just the opposite: Hosting GenAI workloads on premises, either in a traditional Dell solution or using a managed Dell APEX pay-per-use solution, could significantly lower your GenAI costs over 3 years compared to hosting these workloads in the cloud. In fact, we found that a comparable AWS SageMaker solution would cost up to 3.8 times as much and an Azure ML solution would cost up to 3.6 times as much as GenAI on a Dell APEX pay-per-use solution. These results show that organizations looking to implement GenAI and reap the business benefits to come can find many advantages in an on-premises Dell solution, whether they opt to purchase and manage it themselves or choose a subscription-based Dell APEX pay-per-use solution. Choosing an on-premises Dell solution could save your organization significantly over hosting GenAI in the cloud, while giving you control over the security and privacy of your data as well as any updates and changes to the environment, and while ensuring your environment is managed consistently.
Workstations powered by Intel can play a vital role in CPU-intensive AI devel...Principled Technologies
In three AI development workflows, Intel processor-powered workstations delivered strong performance, without using their GPUs, making them a good choice for this part of the AI process
Conclusion
We executed three AI development workflows on tower workstations and mobile workstations from three vendors, with each workflow utilizing only the Intel CPU cores, and found that these platforms were suitable for carrying out various AI tasks. For two of the workflows, we learned that completing the tasks on the tower workstations took roughly half as much time as on the mobile workstations. This supports the idea that the tower workstations would be appropriate for a development environment for more complex models with a greater volume of data and that the mobile workstations would be well-suited for data scientists fine-tuning simpler models. In the third workflow, we explored tower workstation performance with different precision levels and learned that using 16-bit floating point precision allowed the workstations to execute the workflow in less time and also reduced memory usage dramatically. For all three AI workflows we executed, we consider the time the workstations needed to complete the tasks to be acceptable, and believe that these workstations can be appropriate, cost-effective choices for these kinds of activities.
Enable security features with no impact to OLTP performance with Dell PowerEd...Principled Technologies
Get comparable online transaction processing (OLTP) performance with or without enabling AMD Secure Memory Encryption and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Encrypted State
Conclusion
You’ve likely already implemented many security measures for your servers, which may include physical security for the data center, hardware-level security, and software-level security. With the cost of data breaches high and still growing, however, wise IT teams will consider what additional security measures they may be able to implement.
AMD SME and SEV-ES are technologies that are already available within your AMD processor-powered 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers—and in our testing, we saw that they can offer extra layers of security without affecting performance. We compared the online transaction processing performance of a Dell PowerEdge R7625 server, powered by AMD EPYC 9274F processors, with and without these two security features enabled. We found that enabling AMD Secure Memory Encryption and Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State did not impact performance at all.
If your team is assessing areas where you might be able to enhance security—without paying a large performance cost—consider enabling AME SME and AMD SEV-ES in your Dell PowerEdge servers.
Improving energy efficiency in the data center: Endure higher temperatures wi...Principled Technologies
In high-temperature test scenarios, a Dell PowerEdge HS5620 server continued running an intensive workload without component warnings or failures, while a Supermicro SYS‑621C-TN12R server failed
Conclusion: Remain resilient in high temperatures with the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 to help increase efficiency
Increasing your data center’s temperature can help your organization make strides in energy efficiency and cooling cost savings. With servers that can hold up to these higher everyday temperatures—as well as high temperatures due to unforeseen circumstances—your business can continue to deliver the performance your apps and clients require.
When we ran an intensive floating-point workload on a Dell PowerEdge HS5620 and a Supermicro SYS-621CTN12R in three scenario types simulating typical operations at 25°C, a fan failure, and an HVAC malfunction, the Dell server experienced no component warnings or failures. In contrast, the Supermicro server experienced warnings in all three scenario types and experienced component failures in the latter two tests, rendering the system unusable. When we inspected and analyzed each system, we found that the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 server’s motherboard layout, fans, and chassis offered cooling design advantages.
For businesses aiming to meet sustainability goals by running hotter data centers, as well as those concerned with server cooling design, the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 is a strong contender to take on higher temperatures during day-to-day operations and unexpected malfunctions.
Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift: An easily deployable and powe...Principled Technologies
The 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor‑powered solution deployed in less than two hours and ran a Kubernetes container-based generative AI workload effectively
Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift: An easily deployable and powe...Principled Technologies
The 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor‑powered solution deployed in less than two hours and ran a generative AI workload effectively
Conclusion
The appeal of incorporating GenAI into your organization’s operations is likely great. Getting started with an efficient solution for your next LLM workload or application can seem daunting because of the changing hardware and software landscape, but Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors could provide the solution you need. We started with a Dell Validated Design as a reference, and then went on to modify the deployment as necessary for our Llama 2 workload. The Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift solution worked well for our LLM, and by using this deployment guide in conjunction with numerous Dell documents and some flexibility, you could be well on your way to innovating your next GenAI breakthrough.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
For organizations running clusters of moderately configured, older Dell PowerEdge servers with a previous version of VCF, upgrading to better-configured modern servers can provide a significant performance boost and more.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5
If your company is struggling with underperforming infrastructure, upgrading to 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers running VCF 5.1 could be just what you need to handle more database throughput and reduce vSAN latencies. As an additional benefit to IT admins, we also found that the embedded VMware Aria Operation adapter provided useful infrastructure insights.
Realize 2.1X the performance with 20% less power with AMD EPYC processor-back...Principled Technologies
Three AMD EPYC processor-based two-processor solutions outshined comparable Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based solutions by handling more Redis workload transactions and requests while consuming less power
Conclusion
Performance and energy efficiency are significant factors in processor selection for servers running data-intensive workloads, such as Redis. We compared the Redis performance and energy consumption of a server cluster in three AMD EPYC two-processor configurations against that of a server cluster in two Intel Xeon Scalable two-processor configurations. In each of our three test scenarios, the server cluster backed by AMD EPYC processors outperformed the server cluster backed by Intel Xeon Scalable processors. In addition, one of the AMD EPYC processor-based clusters consumed 20 percent less power than its Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based counterpart. Combining these measurements gave us power efficiency metrics that demonstrate how valuable AMD EPYC processor-based servers could be—you could see better performance per watt with these AMD EPYC processor-based server clusters and potentially get more from your Redis or other data intensive applications and workloads while reducing data center power costs.
Improve performance and gain room to grow by easily migrating to a modern Ope...Principled Technologies
We deployed this modern environment, then migrated database VMs from legacy servers and saw performance improvements that support consolidation
Conclusion
If your organization’s transactional databases are running on gear that is several years old, you have much to gain by upgrading to modern servers with new processors and networking components and an OpenShift environment. In our testing, a modern OpenShift environment with a cluster of three Dell PowerEdge R7615 servers with 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors and high-speed 100Gb Broadcom NICs outperformed a legacy environment with MySQL VMs running on a cluster of three Dell PowerEdge R7515 servers with 3rd Generation AMD EPYC processors and 25Gb Broadcom NICs. We also easily migrated a VM from the legacy environment to the modern environment, with only a few steps required to set up and less than ten minutes of hands-on time. The performance advantage of the modern servers would allow a company to reduce the number of servers necessary to perform a given amount of database work, thus lowering operational expenditures such as power and cooling and IT staff time for maintenance. The high-speed 100Gb Broadcom NICs in this solution also give companies better network performance and networking capacity to grow as they embrace emerging technologies such as AI that put great demands on networks.
Boost PC performance: How more available memory can improve productivityPrincipled Technologies
With more memory available, system performance of three Dell devices increased, which can translate to a better user experience
Conclusion
When your system has plenty of RAM to meet your needs, you can efficiently access the applications and data you need to finish projects and to-do lists without sacrificing time and focus. Our test results show that with more memory available, three Dell PCs delivered better performance and took less time to complete the Procyon Office Productivity benchmark. These advantages translate to users being able to complete workflows more quickly and multitask more easily. Whether you need the mobility of the Latitude 5440, the creative capabilities of the Precision 3470, or the high performance of the OptiPlex Tower Plus 7010, configuring your system with more RAM can help keep processes running smoothly, enabling you to do more without compromising performance.
Deploy with confidence: VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on next gen Dell PowerEdg...Principled Technologies
A Principled Technologies deployment guide
Conclusion
Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on next gen Dell PowerEdge servers brings together critical virtualization capabilities and high-performing hardware infrastructure. Relying on our hands-on experience, this deployment guide offers a comprehensive roadmap that can guide your organization through the seamless integration of advanced VMware cloud solutions with the performance and reliability of Dell PowerEdge servers. In addition to the deployment efficiency, the Cloud Foundation 5.1 and PowerEdge solution delivered strong performance while running a MySQL database workload. By leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 and PowerEdge servers, you could help your organization embrace cloud computing with confidence, potentially unlocking a new level of agility, scalability, and efficiency in your data center operations.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5
Conclusion
If your company is struggling with underperforming infrastructure, upgrading to 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers running VCF 5.1 could be just what you need to handle more database throughput and reduce vSAN latencies. We found that a Dell PowerEdge R760 server cluster running VCF 5.1 processed over 78 percent more TPM and 79 percent more NOPM than a Dell PowerEdge R750 server cluster running VCF 4.5. It’s also worth noting that the PowerEdge R750 cluster bottlenecked on vSAN storage, with max write latency at 8.9ms. For reference, the PowerEdge R760 cluster clocked in at 3.8ms max write latency. This higher latency is due in part to the single disk group per host on the moderately configured PowerEdge R750 cluster, while the better-configured PowerEdge R760 cluster supported four disk groups per host. As an additional benefit to IT admins, we also found that the embedded VMware Aria Operation adapter provided useful infrastructure insights.
Based on our research using publicly available materials, it appears that Dell supports nine of the ten PC security features we investigated, HP supports six of them, and Lenovo supports three features.
Increase security, sustainability, and efficiency with robust Dell server man...Principled Technologies
Compared to the Supermicro management portfolio
Conclusion
Choosing a vendor for server purchases is about more than just the hardware platform. Decision-makers must also consider more long-term concerns, including system/data security, energy efficiency, and ease of management. These concerns make the systems management tools a vendor offers as important as the hardware.
We investigated the features and capabilities of server management tools from Dell and Supermicro, comparing Dell iDRAC9 against Supermicro IPMI for embedded server management and Dell OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ against Supermicro Server Manager for one-to-many device and console management and monitoring. We found that the Dell management tools provided more comprehensive security, sustainability, and management/monitoring features and capabilities than Supermicro servers did. In addition, Dell tools automated more tasks to ease server management, resulting in significant time savings for administrators versus having to do the same tasks manually with Supermicro tools.
When making a server purchase, a vendor’s associated management products are critical to protect data, support a more sustainable environment, and to ease the maintenance of systems. Our tests and research showed that the Dell management portfolio for PowerEdge servers offered more features to help organizations meet these goals than the comparable Supermicro management products.
Increase security, sustainability, and efficiency with robust Dell server man...Principled Technologies
Compared to the Supermicro management portfolio
Conclusion
Choosing a vendor for server purchases is about more than just the hardware platform. Decision-makers must also consider more long-term concerns, including system/data security, energy efficiency, and ease of management. These concerns make the systems management tools a vendor offers as important as the hardware.
We investigated the features and capabilities of server management tools from Dell and Supermicro, comparing Dell iDRAC9 against Supermicro IPMI for embedded server management and Dell OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ against Supermicro Server Manager for one-to-many device and console management and monitoring. We found that the Dell management tools provided more comprehensive security, sustainability, and management/monitoring features and capabilities than Supermicro servers did. In addition, Dell tools automated more tasks to ease server management, resulting in significant time savings for administrators versus having to do the same tasks manually with Supermicro tools.
When making a server purchase, a vendor’s associated management products are critical to protect data, support a more sustainable environment, and to ease the maintenance of systems. Our tests and research showed that the Dell management portfolio for PowerEdge servers offered more features to help organizations meet these goals than the comparable Supermicro management products.
Scale up your storage with higher-performing Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS ...Principled Technologies
In our tests, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS outperformed similarly configured solutions from Vendor A, achieving more IOPS, better throughput, and more consistent performance on both NVMe-supported configurations and configurations backed by Elastic Block Store (EBS) alone.
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS supports a full NVMe backed configuration, but Vendor A doesn’t—its solution uses EBS for storage capacity and NVMe as an extended read cache—which means APEX Block Storage for AWS can deliver faster storage performance.
Scale up your storage with higher-performing Dell APEX Block Storage for AWSPrincipled Technologies
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS offered stronger and more consistent storage performance for better business agility than a Vendor A solution
Conclusion
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Plus, the ability to scale beyond three nodes—up to 512 storage nodes with capacity of up to 8 PBs—enables Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS to help ensure performance and capacity as your team plans for the future.
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Automate high-touch server lifecycle management tasks
1. Automate high-touch server
lifecycle management tasks
with Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise
integrations and plugins
IT admins have a long list of responsibilities. Tasks like manual
server management, maintenance, and troubleshooting can
consume huge quantities of their time and energy. Dell EMC™
OpenManage™
Enterprise (OME) 3.5 contains features and
capabilities designed to lighten their load.
In our hands-on evaluation, we found OME systems
management automations shaved valuable time and effort off
our manual server discovery and firmware update workflows.
Plus, when we used OME in conjunction with Power Manager
and OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow®
(OMISNOW),
event tracking and monitoring was completely automatic after
our initial policy creation process
. We also found that once
our servers under test completed server-initiated discovery
(an OME feature where servers automatically notify OME
of their presence1
), discovering and monitoring them for
actionable hardware issues through the OME console with the
SupportAssist Enterprise (SAE) plugin required zero additional
steps and no additional time.
Read on to see how OME automations can dramatically
reduce the amount of IT admin time and effort required
on high-touch, routine management tasks throughout the
server lifecycle.
with server-initiated
discovery*
Streamline
server discovery
and profile
deployment
*vs. a manual approach
with Power Manager
and OMISNOW*
Remove the
middleman for
critical alerts and
warnings
with SAE*
Proactively identify
hardware and
software issues
in multiple servers
Update firmware
in as little as
46 seconds of
admin time*
Automate high-touch server lifecycle management tasks March 2021
A Principled Technologies report: Hands-on testing. Real-world results.
2. Automations that scale
By automating high-touch, routine tasks, Dell EMC OME
plugins and integrations empower IT admins to deliver
effective and efficient systems management from a
single console.
For this study, we completed a variety of common
sever lifecycle management tasks on three Dell EMC
PowerEdge™
R740 servers using the OpenManage
Enterprise console, OpenManage Enterprise Power
Manager, OMISNOW, and the SAE plugin. Then we
compared the time and effort each task required with
automation versus with a manual method that utilized Dell
iDRAC9. The following sections show how the Dell EMC
OpenManage Enterprise portfolio can save considerable
admin time and effort with server-initiated discovery,
policy-based automation, automatic server onboarding for
SupportAssist Enterprise, and one-to-many management.
About Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 3.5
Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 3.5 is the newest version of the Dell EMC systems management and
monitoring console. With it, IT admins get a comprehensive view of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers as well as
any network-connected storage and network switches. In addition to the server lifecycle management tasks we
tested, Dell EMC notes that IT admins can use this console to:
• View and monitor device health
• Create custom alert policies and perform
automated actions
• Detect and rectify configuration anomalies
• Update firmware; Detect and rectify drift2
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3. Automatic server-initiated discovery
When customers purchase servers, Dell EMC can provide each server’s unique credentials in advance, and
IT admins can import them before the servers arrive, setting themselves up for easier deployment. With
OpenManage Enterprise server-initiated discovery, all we had to do was upload a file containing the servers’
service tags and credentials. Once we uploaded the file, the server announced itself to OME, initiating the
discovery process required to manage the server.
With manual, network scan-based discovery, we had to enter the credentials and the known IP addresses of the
target systems and wait for the management console to connect with and complete the discovery process. While
you can perform bulk discovery jobs within a network segment, each server must use the same management
credentials—an impossibility if you’ve ordered your servers with secured unique credentials. Automatic server-
initiated discovery not only saves IT admins time and effort on day zero, but it could also potentially decrease
large-scale deployment time and reduce the chance for human error.
Next, we compared using OpenManage Enterprise profile deployment, which is template-based and assigned
to individual servers, to the time and effort needed to capture a profile from iDRAC, clone it, and redistribute
it to the other servers. Not only was the OME automated workflow faster, but we found OME profiles provided
portable configuration items and settings, so we could move workloads to another server with ease.
Figure 1: Time and effort required to find three servers with known IP addresses and deploy
template-based baseline server profiles. Source: Principled Technologies.
About Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
According to Dell EMC, in addition to viewing, monitoring, and measuring power usage and server health, IT
admins can use this extension to control server power consumption through policy-based automations.3
Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise server-initiated discovery and profile deployment Manual effort
Streamline
server
setup
Discover three servers and deploy server profiles on them
Time (mm:ss), lower is better
Steps, lower is better
0:56
3:31
13
17
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4. Policy-based automation
For this comparison, we used OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager and OMISNOW to evaluate the
OpenManage Enterprise portfolio’s automatic event monitoring and service ticket tracking capabilities. There
was a one-time setup for the policy-based automation we created, which took 31 seconds and 7 steps. After
that, both workflows we discuss below were automated.
In our hands-on evaluation, the Power Manager plugin and ServiceNow integration made it easy to monitor a
temperature-based incident as well as proactively throttle power in a temperature-triggered EPR (Emergency
Power Reduction) test scenario. In our tests, OME automatically generated incident reports for human
follow-up. Once we fixed the problems, alerts on both consoles notified us that the incidents were resolved. By
implementing policy-based automations to set limits for power usage or throttle server power and performance
based on server temperature, IT admins can reduce the number of incidents they have to manage manually.
Table 1: Admin time and effort needed to monitor a temperature-based incident and create the incident resolution using
Power Manager with OMISNOW (after the one-time policy-based automation setup) and a manual event-monitoring and
incident creation method. Lower is better. Source: Principled Technologies.
Monitor and create incident resolutions Time (seconds) Steps
Power Manager with OMISNOW 0 0
Manual effort per incident 98 19
About OMISNOW
OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow (OMISNOW) acts
as a go-between for the OpenManage Enterprise console and
ServiceNow—transferring data between both platforms and
helping IT admins detect issues in less time.4
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5. About SAE
Dell SupportAssist Enterprise (SAE) proactively detects hardware and software issues, notifies you about
the issue, and automatically generates a support request with server hardware logs to Dell EMC.5
In a
Principled Technologies report from September 2020, we found that ProSupport™
Plus with SupportAssist
reduced the amount of IT administrator involvement in drive failure resolution by up to 90 percent
compared to Basic Hardware Support (6 minutes vs. 30 minutes and 45 seconds).6
Automatic server onboarding for SupportAssist Enterprise
For this comparison, we used the SupportAssist Enterprise plugin versus the full, stand-alone version of
SupportAssist Enterprise. Both solutions can detect hardware issues and create cases for Dell technical
support. In our hands-on testing, the main difference between the two options was server onboarding.
The table below shows the time and steps it took using each approach to onboard a SupportAssist-
entitled server. We found that discovering and monitoring the server for actionable hardware issues
through the OME console with the SupportAssist plugin required zero additional steps and no
additional time when we checked the SupportAssist-entitled box during the automated server-initiated
discovery process.
By contrast, an IT admin using OME and the full version of SAE would have to switch over to the SAE
console and perform an additional discovery of the target server, which increases the onboarding time
for every server.
Table 2: Admin time and effort needed to onboard a SupportAssist-entitled server using the SAE plugin
(after server-initiated discovery) and the full version of SAE. Lower is better. Source: Principled Technologies.
Manual effort per server Time (seconds) Steps Single pane for easy management?
SAE plugin 0 0 Yes
SAE – full version 235 8 No
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6. Centralized one-to-many management
For this comparison, we performed firmware updates on the three servers in our monitored group. By using the
OpenManage Enterprise one-to-many management capabilities on these important yet monotonous tasks, the
likelihood of human error decreases, and the likelihood of firmware updates happening on schedule increases.
Figure 2: Time and effort required to update firmware on three Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 servers.
Source: Principled Technologies.
Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Manual effort
Update firmware
Time (mm:ss), lower is better
Steps, lower is better
0:46
42:04
9
16
Time savings
that scale
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7. Conclusion
We found that Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise automations can free up costly admin
time for other urgent data center matters. Consider an organization that leverages the
server-initiated discovery feature, template-based server profile deployment, and one-
to-many server firmware updating capabilities we tested alongside single console event
management and hardware incident support that OMISNOW and SupportAssist plugins
enable. Based on our results, for a single server that receives monthly firmware updates and
has at least three events during a three-year period, our fictional organization would free up
approximately 25 hours and 26 minutes in IT admins time in a single server lifecycle, which
could translate to over $1,234 in server management cost savings if a Senior Systems Admin
is the one doing the manual labor.7
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8. 1 Dell Technologies, “Server-Initiated Discovery with OpenManage Enterprise 3.4,” accessed March 3, 2021, https://
downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_software_int/esuprt_software_ent_systems_mgmt/dell-openmanage-
enterprise_white-papers15_en-us.pdf.
2 Dell Technologies, “Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Version 3.5 User’s Guide,” accessed February 9, 2021,
https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/dell-openmanage-enterprise/ome_3.5_ug/about-dell-emc-openmanage-
enterprise?guid=guid-72dc4319-05e8-4b62-902b-1b49a7a61488.
3 Dell, Support for Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager,” accessed February 10, 2021, https://www.dell.
com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000176254/support-for-dell-emc-openmanage-enterprise-power-manager-and-power-center.
4 Dell, “Support for Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow,” accessed February 10, 2021, https://www.dell.
com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000177827/support-for-dell-emc-openmanage-integration-with-servicenow.
5 Dell Technologies, “Dell EMC SupportAssist Enterprise 2.x – Guide and Download,” accessed March 1, 2021, https://
www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000179530/dell-emc-supportassist-enterprise-2-x-guide-and-download#how.
6 Principled Technologies, “Minimize server support hassle using Dell EMC ProSupport Plus for Enterprise with Dell EMC
SupportAssist,” accessed March 2, 2021, https://www.principledtechnologies.com/Dell/ProSupport-Plus-SupportAs-
sist-vs-Basic-Hardware-Support-0920.pdf.
7 On March 3, 2021, the average pay for a Senior Systems Administrator in the U.S. was $48.54 per hour. ZipRecruiter,
“Senior Systems Administrator Salary,” accessed March 3, 2021, https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Senior-Sys-
tems-Administrator-Salary.
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