Cloud WAN services can seem convenient for small businesses and remote offices, but they remove local control and can be more expensive over time. In our tests, the all-in-one Dell PowerEdge VRTX provided the necessary transactional database performance while saving up to 63.9 percent in costs over five years. When you’re looking for a reliable solution to run workloads in remote offices, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX has the potential to cost less than running databases from the cloud.
Comparing performance and cost: Dell PowerEdge VRTX with one Dell PowerEdge M...Principled Technologies
Keeping a legacy disparate hardware solution composed of nine older servers instead of choosing the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3 family may cost more than one would expect. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could do the work of nine legacy servers running email, database, and file/print server workloads. The VRTX ran all nine workloads in VMs, achieving a slight performance boost on the database and file/print workloads while using much less datacenter space and reducing power consumption by 38.4 percent.
The VRTX achieved these savings using 88.6 percent less rack-equivalent space than the legacy disparate hardware solution and with one-third as many cables, to reduce complexity and reduce the burden of space in small offices.
Despite a larger initial investment, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could actually lower the total cost of ownership over five years by as much as 48.5 percent, delivering a solid return on investment in less than two years.
As our test results show, investing in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 v3 family could provide a compact solution to optimize application performance and reduce complexity at a lower lifetime cost than a legacy solution composed of nine older servers.
Comparing performance and cost: Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. legacy hardware solutionPrincipled Technologies
Keeping a legacy, disparate hardware solution instead of choosing the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX may cost you more than you realize. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX increased application performance over a legacy, disparate hardware solution across email, database, and file/print server simultaneous workloads while reducing power consumption by 19.8 percent. The VRTX did so in 70.6 percent less rack-equivalent space than the legacy, disparate hardware solution and with one-third as many cables, to reduce complexity and reduce the burden of space in small offices. Finally, despite a larger initial investment, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX could actually lower your total cost of ownership over years as much as 26.0 percent, delivering a solid return on your investment in less than three years.
As our test results show, investing in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution could provide you with a compact solution to optimize application performance, reduce complexity, and even lower the total cost of your solution over its lifetime.
Consolidate and upgrade: Dell PowerEdge VRTX and Microsoft SQL Server 2014Principled Technologies
Your growing business shouldn’t run on aging hardware and software until it fails. Adding memory and upgrading processors will not provide the same benefits to your infrastructure as a consolidation and upgrade can. Upgrading and consolidating your IT infrastructure to the Dell PowerEdge VRTX running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 can improve performance while adding features such as high availability.
Based on our findings, a single Dell PowerEdge VRTX can replace four four-year-old dual-socket servers with VMs running heavy SQL database workloads. We found that consolidating four older servers onto a Dell PowerEdge VRTX and upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save up to $16,390 over three years, compared to keeping the four-year-old dual-socket servers and upgrading existing storage infrastructure. If your business runs older versions of Microsoft SQL Server on end-of-life dual-socket servers, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save your company these costs while delivering better performance than the aging hardware and software.
Save space, increase efficiency, and boost performance in your remote office ...Principled Technologies
Two realities drive many remote and branch office server decisions: the need for a versatile platform that delivers excellent performance, and the need for simplification by using fewer servers and cables. By consolidating your older servers to the powerful, space-efficient Dell PowerEdge VRTX server, you can increase database performance while saving valuable space. In our tests, the base-configuration Dell PowerEdge VRTX could consolidate four legacy servers while providing 5.4 times the overall performance. With the Micron P420m PCIe SSD added to the configuration, the VRTX consolidated eight legacy servers and delivered 10.7 times the overall performance.
Investing in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX—in either configuration—can elevate your IT infrastructure by answering database performance and space-saving challenges that face your remote and branch offices.
In addition to providing excellent performance in a space-efficient manner, the VRTX simplifies the office environment, brings efficiency to IT staff through its management advantages, and offers businesses the versatility of deploying performance anywhere.
Performance per dollar comparison: Dell PowerEdge R715 vs. HP ProLiant DL380p...Principled Technologies
Servers that deliver high performance at lower costs are a smart choice for any IT department building or refreshing a data center. In our tests, we found that the AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor -powered Dell PowerEdge R715 increased performance per dollar by as much as 23.27 percent in our real-world 70 percent processor utilization scenario, and as much as 26.84 percent at maximum processor utilization.
When considering whether to upgrade to the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX or repurpose older hardware, the advantages of new hardware are clear. Not only do you get newer hardware that is faster and is better-equipped to handle the increasing demands of today’s business applications and workloads, but you also benefit from advances that make deployment and management easier than ever.
In our labs, we compared the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with four server nodes and shared storage and networking to a similar infrastructure using four legacy tower servers, external network switches, and an external SAN. Our testing revealed the following:
· PowerEdge VRTX took 78.5 percent less time and 150 fewer steps to configure and deploy out of the box compared to the legacy solution.
· PowerEdge VRTX It took less than 1 hour to unbox and configure into a highly available VMware vSphere cluster compared to over 4 hours on the legacy solution.
· Deploying the Dell PowerEdge VRTX used just a single management tool, the integrated Chassis Management Controller, whereas the tower solution required six separate management tools.
Choosing such a complete solution during your next server refresh can simplify infrastructure setup and configuration, boost performance through built-in high availability features, and potentially save your organization space and operating costs over the life of the hardware.
Setting up a failover cluster on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a straightforward process. In very little time, you can deploy Dell PowerEdge VRTX with up to four M-series servers, switches, and storage in a redundant configuration using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. By setting up a failover cluster on your compact Dell PowerEdge VRTX, you can maximize server uptime to keep your business moving.
The Dell PowerEdge VRTX is an all-inclusive platform, suitable for rapid deployment of a virtual environment, such as Citrix XenDesktop 7.5. The integrated components of the VRTX means your business has a centralized management console for the necessary data center components that support VDI environments. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX and XenDesktop set up, configured, and deployed VDI users easily. The addition of Dell Wyse terminals demonstrates how your end-users can access your XenDesktop VDI environment with efficient hardware and little administrative effort. The combination of Dell PowerEdge VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 7.5 can offer a unified, efficient, and simple enterprise-value VDI solution for your business, but without the resources and commitment need for supporting an enterprise data center.
Comparing performance and cost: Dell PowerEdge VRTX with one Dell PowerEdge M...Principled Technologies
Keeping a legacy disparate hardware solution composed of nine older servers instead of choosing the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3 family may cost more than one would expect. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could do the work of nine legacy servers running email, database, and file/print server workloads. The VRTX ran all nine workloads in VMs, achieving a slight performance boost on the database and file/print workloads while using much less datacenter space and reducing power consumption by 38.4 percent.
The VRTX achieved these savings using 88.6 percent less rack-equivalent space than the legacy disparate hardware solution and with one-third as many cables, to reduce complexity and reduce the burden of space in small offices.
Despite a larger initial investment, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could actually lower the total cost of ownership over five years by as much as 48.5 percent, delivering a solid return on investment in less than two years.
As our test results show, investing in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 v3 family could provide a compact solution to optimize application performance and reduce complexity at a lower lifetime cost than a legacy solution composed of nine older servers.
Comparing performance and cost: Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. legacy hardware solutionPrincipled Technologies
Keeping a legacy, disparate hardware solution instead of choosing the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX may cost you more than you realize. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX increased application performance over a legacy, disparate hardware solution across email, database, and file/print server simultaneous workloads while reducing power consumption by 19.8 percent. The VRTX did so in 70.6 percent less rack-equivalent space than the legacy, disparate hardware solution and with one-third as many cables, to reduce complexity and reduce the burden of space in small offices. Finally, despite a larger initial investment, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX could actually lower your total cost of ownership over years as much as 26.0 percent, delivering a solid return on your investment in less than three years.
As our test results show, investing in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution could provide you with a compact solution to optimize application performance, reduce complexity, and even lower the total cost of your solution over its lifetime.
Consolidate and upgrade: Dell PowerEdge VRTX and Microsoft SQL Server 2014Principled Technologies
Your growing business shouldn’t run on aging hardware and software until it fails. Adding memory and upgrading processors will not provide the same benefits to your infrastructure as a consolidation and upgrade can. Upgrading and consolidating your IT infrastructure to the Dell PowerEdge VRTX running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 can improve performance while adding features such as high availability.
Based on our findings, a single Dell PowerEdge VRTX can replace four four-year-old dual-socket servers with VMs running heavy SQL database workloads. We found that consolidating four older servers onto a Dell PowerEdge VRTX and upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save up to $16,390 over three years, compared to keeping the four-year-old dual-socket servers and upgrading existing storage infrastructure. If your business runs older versions of Microsoft SQL Server on end-of-life dual-socket servers, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save your company these costs while delivering better performance than the aging hardware and software.
Save space, increase efficiency, and boost performance in your remote office ...Principled Technologies
Two realities drive many remote and branch office server decisions: the need for a versatile platform that delivers excellent performance, and the need for simplification by using fewer servers and cables. By consolidating your older servers to the powerful, space-efficient Dell PowerEdge VRTX server, you can increase database performance while saving valuable space. In our tests, the base-configuration Dell PowerEdge VRTX could consolidate four legacy servers while providing 5.4 times the overall performance. With the Micron P420m PCIe SSD added to the configuration, the VRTX consolidated eight legacy servers and delivered 10.7 times the overall performance.
Investing in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX—in either configuration—can elevate your IT infrastructure by answering database performance and space-saving challenges that face your remote and branch offices.
In addition to providing excellent performance in a space-efficient manner, the VRTX simplifies the office environment, brings efficiency to IT staff through its management advantages, and offers businesses the versatility of deploying performance anywhere.
Performance per dollar comparison: Dell PowerEdge R715 vs. HP ProLiant DL380p...Principled Technologies
Servers that deliver high performance at lower costs are a smart choice for any IT department building or refreshing a data center. In our tests, we found that the AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor -powered Dell PowerEdge R715 increased performance per dollar by as much as 23.27 percent in our real-world 70 percent processor utilization scenario, and as much as 26.84 percent at maximum processor utilization.
When considering whether to upgrade to the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX or repurpose older hardware, the advantages of new hardware are clear. Not only do you get newer hardware that is faster and is better-equipped to handle the increasing demands of today’s business applications and workloads, but you also benefit from advances that make deployment and management easier than ever.
In our labs, we compared the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with four server nodes and shared storage and networking to a similar infrastructure using four legacy tower servers, external network switches, and an external SAN. Our testing revealed the following:
· PowerEdge VRTX took 78.5 percent less time and 150 fewer steps to configure and deploy out of the box compared to the legacy solution.
· PowerEdge VRTX It took less than 1 hour to unbox and configure into a highly available VMware vSphere cluster compared to over 4 hours on the legacy solution.
· Deploying the Dell PowerEdge VRTX used just a single management tool, the integrated Chassis Management Controller, whereas the tower solution required six separate management tools.
Choosing such a complete solution during your next server refresh can simplify infrastructure setup and configuration, boost performance through built-in high availability features, and potentially save your organization space and operating costs over the life of the hardware.
Setting up a failover cluster on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a straightforward process. In very little time, you can deploy Dell PowerEdge VRTX with up to four M-series servers, switches, and storage in a redundant configuration using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. By setting up a failover cluster on your compact Dell PowerEdge VRTX, you can maximize server uptime to keep your business moving.
The Dell PowerEdge VRTX is an all-inclusive platform, suitable for rapid deployment of a virtual environment, such as Citrix XenDesktop 7.5. The integrated components of the VRTX means your business has a centralized management console for the necessary data center components that support VDI environments. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX and XenDesktop set up, configured, and deployed VDI users easily. The addition of Dell Wyse terminals demonstrates how your end-users can access your XenDesktop VDI environment with efficient hardware and little administrative effort. The combination of Dell PowerEdge VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 7.5 can offer a unified, efficient, and simple enterprise-value VDI solution for your business, but without the resources and commitment need for supporting an enterprise data center.
Increasing performance with the Dell PowerEdge FX2 and VMware Virtual SANPrincipled Technologies
IT and business goals don’t have to compete: With a Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution powered by Intel Xeon processors and SanDisk SSDs with VMware Virtual SAN 6, you can get the database performance you need by bringing compute and data closer together while maximizing datacenter space, all within the constraints of a tightening budget. We found that the Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution outperformed an HP solution with legacy external SAN array and provided a lower cost per order along with lowering common operating costs. Configured with SanDisk SSDs and VMware Virtual San 6, the Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution delivered 3.1 times the performance and 4.2 times the performance per watt of the HP solution using a legacy SAN array. The entire Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution also took up 90 percent less space and cost half as much per database order it handled.
With numbers like that, it becomes clear that investing in servers for your old external storage array isn’t going to cut it. Moving to an all-in-one Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution with VMware Virtual SAN 6 can help you meet both your performance and budgeting goals.
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a legacy server and traditional SAN VSAN by offering 72 percent greater VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $176.52 per user.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
Offer faster access to critical data and achieve greater inline data reductio...Principled Technologies
Compared to a solution from another vendor (“Vendor B”), the PowerStore 7000T delivered a better inline data reduction ratio and better performance during simulated OLTP and other I/O workloads
Converged architecture advantages: Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 servers vs. ...Principled Technologies
Based on our testing with heavy SQL Server 2014 database workloads, the converged architecture solution of a Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers delivered 3.9 times the performance of our legacy IBM solution. We also found the Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution offered 73 percent lower cost per order compared to the legacy IBM System x3850 X5 solution. In addition, the PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution does not sacrifice traditional hardware redundancy while providing the same highly available database solution in a smaller rack space. If your business runs Microsoft SQL Server 2014, the converged architecture approach with Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers powered by Intel could bring a harmonious balance of performance, reliability, and cost efficiency to your data center.
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2670 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a five-year-old legacy server and traditional SAN by offering twice as many VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $167.89 per user in hardware costs.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
Increased database performance and reduced costs with Dell PowerEdge FX2 & VM...Principled Technologies
Holding onto legacy servers and storage can limit database performance and infrastructure agility along with wasting space and power. The Dell PowerEdge FX2 with VMware Virtual SAN can provide more value for your business now, while setting up your datacenter to adapt to changing workloads as business needs fluctuate. In our tests, the PowerEdge FX2 solution outperformed four legacy HP servers and a traditional storage array. It offered 2.8 times the database OPM of the legacy solution while saving over half a rack of datacenter space. It also improved energy efficiency by delivering 6.5 times the performance per watt. Finally, the PowerEdge FX2 solution was more cost efficient—offering a cost per OPM that was 9.7 percent less than the legacy HP solution. The Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution is designed to provide a converged, flexible, and cost-efficient database modernization platform.
Converged architecture advantages: Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 servers vs. ...Principled Technologies
Based on our testing with heavy SQL Server 2014 database workloads, the converged architecture solution of a Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers delivered 3.8 times the performance of our legacy HP solution. We also found the Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution offered 72 lower cost per new order compared to the legacy HP ProLiant DL580 G7 solution. In addition, the PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution does not sacrifice traditional hardware redundancy while providing the same highly available database solution in a smaller rack space. If your business runs Microsoft SQL Server 2014, the converged architecture approach with Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers powered by Intel could bring a harmonious balance of performance, reliability, and cost efficiency to your data center.
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Workstation heat and power usage: Lenovo ThinkStation P500 vs. HP Z440 Workst...Principled Technologies
A workstation that runs coolly and uses less power is a great asset to workers and the companies they work for. In our tests, both when idle and when under load, the Lenovo ThinkStation P500 generally ran at lower surface temperatures and used less power than the HP Z440 Workstation. These findings show that the Lenovo ThinkStation P500 could meet the needs of those who want to provide a reliable, comfortable work environment while using less power.
Dell PowerEdge M820 blades: Balancing performance, density, and high availabi...Principled Technologies
Finding a server that can deliver the right balance of high workload performance, density, and RAS features can help you meet both infrastructure and business goals at the same time.
In our tests, the single-width Dell PowerEdge M820 blade delivered 19.3 percent better Oracle Database 12c performance than the HP ProLiant BL680c G7 in half the space, meaning it could deliver 2.38 times more transactions per U. The value of the denser Dell PowerEdge M820 was clear in our cost analysis of the two systems. Because the Dell PowerEdge M820 takes up less space, you need fewer enclosures, less rack space, and can save on port costs. In our sample comparison of two performance-equivalent solutions, we found that the Dell PowerEdge M820 solution could save up to 42.1 percent compared to an HP ProLiant BL680c G7 solution. That’s money that you can use to buy even more servers for greater performance or to innovate elsewhere. We also found that the Dell PowerEdge M820 took high availability into account by utilizing key RAS features to help increase your workload uptime.
If you’re looking for a dense blade solution to lower costs with the power to handle your important workloads and keep them running, our study shows that the Dell PowerEdge M820 blade addresses all those concerns.
Power efficiency and cost: AMD Opteron 6300 series processor-based Dell Power...Principled Technologies
With advances in processing power, it’s now possible to upgrade your older 4U, four-socket servers to newer and more powerful 2U, four-socket servers and achieve powerful performance. Additionally, the servers you select should provide the high performance levels you expect while simultaneously providing great purchase cost value and maximizing performance per watt, in an effort to keep your data center costs low.
In our tests, we found that the AMD Opteron processor Model 6380-powered Dell PowerEdge R815 provided similar performance to its competitor, the HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8, while providing benefits in the realms of power-efficiency and value. The Dell PowerEdge R815 delivered a 47.4 percent lower per-VM cost than the HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8, while delivering 15.8 percent more OPM per watt than the HP server did.
Due to these possible savings with the Dell solution, we found that the AMD Opteron processor Model 6380-powered Dell PowerEdge R815 could deliver up to an 28.8 percent lower three-year TCO than the HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8.
Dell PowerEdge R720 rack server solutions for virtual desktop infrastructures Principled Technologies
Getting more value out of your servers is a smart way to reduce datacenter and VDI costs. In our tests, the Dell PowerEdge R720 server not only cost up to 5.4 percent less per user than the HP server, it also consumed 3.8 percent less power per virtual desktop user than the HP server when running workloads. When extrapolated over an entire rack of servers and with datacenters full of these racks, the potential savings both in hardware costs and in power costs could be dramatic.
Consolidate and upgrade to save up to $172K: Dell PowerEdge R620 and Microso...Principled Technologies
Your growing business needs upgraded infrastructure to keep up with increased users and demand on your hardware. Adding memory and upgrading processors does not provide the same benefits to your infrastructure as a consolidation and upgrade can. Upgrading and consolidating your IT infrastructure to the Dell PowerEdge R620 running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 can improve performance while saving money and rack space.
Based on our findings, a single Dell PowerEdge R620 can replace four four-year-old dual-socket servers with VMs running heavy SQL Server database workloads. We found that consolidating four older servers onto a Dell PowerEdge R620 and upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save up to $172,573 over three years, compared to keeping the four-year-old dual-socket servers. The Dell PowerEdge R620 can also consolidate 8U worth of legacy servers into 1U of space. If your business runs older versions of Microsoft SQL Server on end-of-life dual-socket servers, the Dell PowerEdge R620 with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save your company these costs while delivering better performance than the aging hardware and software.
Continuing to run a legacy infrastructure may be possible, but it isn’t optimal—not when new technologies like the Dell and Nutanix solution are available. By upgrading to this new hyperconverged infrastructure, you could do eight times the work of a legacy solution in just 6U and scale for more work by simply adding another node. What’s more, eliminating the need for centralized SAN storage means more space to grow, less hardware to manage, and the potential for lower power and cooling bills.
Take the first step on the path to an upgraded environment. Run DPACK in your own datacenter, and discover your performance requirements and potential bottlenecks. Then consider how the increased mixed workload performance from the hyperconverged, Intel processor-powered Dell and Nutanix solution could help your business thrive.
Whether you’re looking for the highest possible performance per rack unit or the strongest RAS-enabled server to run your mission-critical databases, Dell has a server to meet your needs. Factors such as performance per rack, expansion capabilities, and flash storage options will also drive your server decision.
In our hands-on tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R820 server could handle up to 382,397 database orders per minute and had 73.6 percent greater performance per U of rack space than the R910.
The Dell PowerEdge R910 processed 440,475 OPM. Its high number of logical processors, maximum expansion capabilities, and support for RAS technologies make the Dell PowerEdge R910 an excellent choice for your mission-critical data center applications.
Minimizing licensing costs for enterprise applications is vital to organizations looking to keep costs down. When your applications use per-core licensing, choosing higher-performance servers with fewer cores dramatically reduces your software-related spending. The Dell PowerEdge M820 blade solution with Compellent storage could deliver up to $96,236 in savings as compared to a single HP ProLiant BL680c G7 solution, and if consolidating multiple workloads, could deliver even more savings in licensing costs when running Microsoft SQL Server in a virtualized scenario – all while maintaining or exceeding previous performance levels.
As our tests show, investing in the powerful new Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle VM Server 3.2.8 with Oracle Database 12c VMs achieves cost savings without compromising performance. In our testing, a single Dell PowerEdge R920 could perform five times the work of a single HP ProLiant DL385 G6 server; the costs to power and cool the Dell PowerEdge would be 43 percent less than the five servers it could replace. The three-year software licensing costs of the Dell PowerEdge R920 server would be 22 percent lower than the licensing costs for the five-server solution. These dramatic savings—which come out to $212,091 for our single test environment — could grow to millions of dollars in a larger consolidation effort.
VMmark virtualization performance of Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SANPrincipled Technologies
The storage you use for your virtualization solution can be a significant factor in its performance and effectiveness. Two Dell PowerEdge R720 servers, paired with Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN, ran 10 VMmark tiles for a total of 80 running VMs and achieved a score of 12.05@10 tiles, making it the top score running VMware ESXi 5.5 of the 32-core server configurations. For enterprises that need excellent virtualization performance, this makes Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN a wise investment.
Resource balancing comparison: VMware vSphere 6 vs. Red Hat Enterprise Virtua...Principled Technologies
Having ample resources to handle user requests is a necessity of modern virtualization solutions. Allocating and distributing those resources evenly, however, is imperative to the success of your business’s virtualized environment. In our tests, after powering on the other two servers in our three-node cluster and adding resource management features, VMware vSphere 6 improved performance by 183 percent over its baseline configuration of one active server and no resource management features. RHEV 3.5, in contrast, delivered only a 79 percent increase over its baseline. As you design your business’s infrastructure and applications, improvements such as those offered by VMware vSphere 6 DRS and Storage DRS can play a critical role by offering your users better application experiences. Optimized and modern resource management provided by VMware DRS can also help to lower your IT purchase and maintenance costs by reducing the number of servers necessary to run your applications.
Increasing performance with the Dell PowerEdge FX2 and VMware Virtual SANPrincipled Technologies
IT and business goals don’t have to compete: With a Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution powered by Intel Xeon processors and SanDisk SSDs with VMware Virtual SAN 6, you can get the database performance you need by bringing compute and data closer together while maximizing datacenter space, all within the constraints of a tightening budget. We found that the Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution outperformed an HP solution with legacy external SAN array and provided a lower cost per order along with lowering common operating costs. Configured with SanDisk SSDs and VMware Virtual San 6, the Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution delivered 3.1 times the performance and 4.2 times the performance per watt of the HP solution using a legacy SAN array. The entire Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution also took up 90 percent less space and cost half as much per database order it handled.
With numbers like that, it becomes clear that investing in servers for your old external storage array isn’t going to cut it. Moving to an all-in-one Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution with VMware Virtual SAN 6 can help you meet both your performance and budgeting goals.
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a legacy server and traditional SAN VSAN by offering 72 percent greater VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $176.52 per user.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
Offer faster access to critical data and achieve greater inline data reductio...Principled Technologies
Compared to a solution from another vendor (“Vendor B”), the PowerStore 7000T delivered a better inline data reduction ratio and better performance during simulated OLTP and other I/O workloads
Converged architecture advantages: Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 servers vs. ...Principled Technologies
Based on our testing with heavy SQL Server 2014 database workloads, the converged architecture solution of a Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers delivered 3.9 times the performance of our legacy IBM solution. We also found the Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution offered 73 percent lower cost per order compared to the legacy IBM System x3850 X5 solution. In addition, the PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution does not sacrifice traditional hardware redundancy while providing the same highly available database solution in a smaller rack space. If your business runs Microsoft SQL Server 2014, the converged architecture approach with Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers powered by Intel could bring a harmonious balance of performance, reliability, and cost efficiency to your data center.
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2670 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a five-year-old legacy server and traditional SAN by offering twice as many VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $167.89 per user in hardware costs.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
Increased database performance and reduced costs with Dell PowerEdge FX2 & VM...Principled Technologies
Holding onto legacy servers and storage can limit database performance and infrastructure agility along with wasting space and power. The Dell PowerEdge FX2 with VMware Virtual SAN can provide more value for your business now, while setting up your datacenter to adapt to changing workloads as business needs fluctuate. In our tests, the PowerEdge FX2 solution outperformed four legacy HP servers and a traditional storage array. It offered 2.8 times the database OPM of the legacy solution while saving over half a rack of datacenter space. It also improved energy efficiency by delivering 6.5 times the performance per watt. Finally, the PowerEdge FX2 solution was more cost efficient—offering a cost per OPM that was 9.7 percent less than the legacy HP solution. The Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution is designed to provide a converged, flexible, and cost-efficient database modernization platform.
Converged architecture advantages: Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 servers vs. ...Principled Technologies
Based on our testing with heavy SQL Server 2014 database workloads, the converged architecture solution of a Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers delivered 3.8 times the performance of our legacy HP solution. We also found the Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution offered 72 lower cost per new order compared to the legacy HP ProLiant DL580 G7 solution. In addition, the PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution does not sacrifice traditional hardware redundancy while providing the same highly available database solution in a smaller rack space. If your business runs Microsoft SQL Server 2014, the converged architecture approach with Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers powered by Intel could bring a harmonious balance of performance, reliability, and cost efficiency to your data center.
See how Dell works efficiently with VMware to provide innovative architectures that are scalable and flexible. Learn about servers, networking, storage, and comprehensive systems management
Workstation heat and power usage: Lenovo ThinkStation P500 vs. HP Z440 Workst...Principled Technologies
A workstation that runs coolly and uses less power is a great asset to workers and the companies they work for. In our tests, both when idle and when under load, the Lenovo ThinkStation P500 generally ran at lower surface temperatures and used less power than the HP Z440 Workstation. These findings show that the Lenovo ThinkStation P500 could meet the needs of those who want to provide a reliable, comfortable work environment while using less power.
Dell PowerEdge M820 blades: Balancing performance, density, and high availabi...Principled Technologies
Finding a server that can deliver the right balance of high workload performance, density, and RAS features can help you meet both infrastructure and business goals at the same time.
In our tests, the single-width Dell PowerEdge M820 blade delivered 19.3 percent better Oracle Database 12c performance than the HP ProLiant BL680c G7 in half the space, meaning it could deliver 2.38 times more transactions per U. The value of the denser Dell PowerEdge M820 was clear in our cost analysis of the two systems. Because the Dell PowerEdge M820 takes up less space, you need fewer enclosures, less rack space, and can save on port costs. In our sample comparison of two performance-equivalent solutions, we found that the Dell PowerEdge M820 solution could save up to 42.1 percent compared to an HP ProLiant BL680c G7 solution. That’s money that you can use to buy even more servers for greater performance or to innovate elsewhere. We also found that the Dell PowerEdge M820 took high availability into account by utilizing key RAS features to help increase your workload uptime.
If you’re looking for a dense blade solution to lower costs with the power to handle your important workloads and keep them running, our study shows that the Dell PowerEdge M820 blade addresses all those concerns.
Power efficiency and cost: AMD Opteron 6300 series processor-based Dell Power...Principled Technologies
With advances in processing power, it’s now possible to upgrade your older 4U, four-socket servers to newer and more powerful 2U, four-socket servers and achieve powerful performance. Additionally, the servers you select should provide the high performance levels you expect while simultaneously providing great purchase cost value and maximizing performance per watt, in an effort to keep your data center costs low.
In our tests, we found that the AMD Opteron processor Model 6380-powered Dell PowerEdge R815 provided similar performance to its competitor, the HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8, while providing benefits in the realms of power-efficiency and value. The Dell PowerEdge R815 delivered a 47.4 percent lower per-VM cost than the HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8, while delivering 15.8 percent more OPM per watt than the HP server did.
Due to these possible savings with the Dell solution, we found that the AMD Opteron processor Model 6380-powered Dell PowerEdge R815 could deliver up to an 28.8 percent lower three-year TCO than the HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8.
Dell PowerEdge R720 rack server solutions for virtual desktop infrastructures Principled Technologies
Getting more value out of your servers is a smart way to reduce datacenter and VDI costs. In our tests, the Dell PowerEdge R720 server not only cost up to 5.4 percent less per user than the HP server, it also consumed 3.8 percent less power per virtual desktop user than the HP server when running workloads. When extrapolated over an entire rack of servers and with datacenters full of these racks, the potential savings both in hardware costs and in power costs could be dramatic.
Consolidate and upgrade to save up to $172K: Dell PowerEdge R620 and Microso...Principled Technologies
Your growing business needs upgraded infrastructure to keep up with increased users and demand on your hardware. Adding memory and upgrading processors does not provide the same benefits to your infrastructure as a consolidation and upgrade can. Upgrading and consolidating your IT infrastructure to the Dell PowerEdge R620 running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 can improve performance while saving money and rack space.
Based on our findings, a single Dell PowerEdge R620 can replace four four-year-old dual-socket servers with VMs running heavy SQL Server database workloads. We found that consolidating four older servers onto a Dell PowerEdge R620 and upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save up to $172,573 over three years, compared to keeping the four-year-old dual-socket servers. The Dell PowerEdge R620 can also consolidate 8U worth of legacy servers into 1U of space. If your business runs older versions of Microsoft SQL Server on end-of-life dual-socket servers, the Dell PowerEdge R620 with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save your company these costs while delivering better performance than the aging hardware and software.
Continuing to run a legacy infrastructure may be possible, but it isn’t optimal—not when new technologies like the Dell and Nutanix solution are available. By upgrading to this new hyperconverged infrastructure, you could do eight times the work of a legacy solution in just 6U and scale for more work by simply adding another node. What’s more, eliminating the need for centralized SAN storage means more space to grow, less hardware to manage, and the potential for lower power and cooling bills.
Take the first step on the path to an upgraded environment. Run DPACK in your own datacenter, and discover your performance requirements and potential bottlenecks. Then consider how the increased mixed workload performance from the hyperconverged, Intel processor-powered Dell and Nutanix solution could help your business thrive.
Whether you’re looking for the highest possible performance per rack unit or the strongest RAS-enabled server to run your mission-critical databases, Dell has a server to meet your needs. Factors such as performance per rack, expansion capabilities, and flash storage options will also drive your server decision.
In our hands-on tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R820 server could handle up to 382,397 database orders per minute and had 73.6 percent greater performance per U of rack space than the R910.
The Dell PowerEdge R910 processed 440,475 OPM. Its high number of logical processors, maximum expansion capabilities, and support for RAS technologies make the Dell PowerEdge R910 an excellent choice for your mission-critical data center applications.
Minimizing licensing costs for enterprise applications is vital to organizations looking to keep costs down. When your applications use per-core licensing, choosing higher-performance servers with fewer cores dramatically reduces your software-related spending. The Dell PowerEdge M820 blade solution with Compellent storage could deliver up to $96,236 in savings as compared to a single HP ProLiant BL680c G7 solution, and if consolidating multiple workloads, could deliver even more savings in licensing costs when running Microsoft SQL Server in a virtualized scenario – all while maintaining or exceeding previous performance levels.
As our tests show, investing in the powerful new Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle VM Server 3.2.8 with Oracle Database 12c VMs achieves cost savings without compromising performance. In our testing, a single Dell PowerEdge R920 could perform five times the work of a single HP ProLiant DL385 G6 server; the costs to power and cool the Dell PowerEdge would be 43 percent less than the five servers it could replace. The three-year software licensing costs of the Dell PowerEdge R920 server would be 22 percent lower than the licensing costs for the five-server solution. These dramatic savings—which come out to $212,091 for our single test environment — could grow to millions of dollars in a larger consolidation effort.
VMmark virtualization performance of Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SANPrincipled Technologies
The storage you use for your virtualization solution can be a significant factor in its performance and effectiveness. Two Dell PowerEdge R720 servers, paired with Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN, ran 10 VMmark tiles for a total of 80 running VMs and achieved a score of 12.05@10 tiles, making it the top score running VMware ESXi 5.5 of the 32-core server configurations. For enterprises that need excellent virtualization performance, this makes Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN a wise investment.
Resource balancing comparison: VMware vSphere 6 vs. Red Hat Enterprise Virtua...Principled Technologies
Having ample resources to handle user requests is a necessity of modern virtualization solutions. Allocating and distributing those resources evenly, however, is imperative to the success of your business’s virtualized environment. In our tests, after powering on the other two servers in our three-node cluster and adding resource management features, VMware vSphere 6 improved performance by 183 percent over its baseline configuration of one active server and no resource management features. RHEV 3.5, in contrast, delivered only a 79 percent increase over its baseline. As you design your business’s infrastructure and applications, improvements such as those offered by VMware vSphere 6 DRS and Storage DRS can play a critical role by offering your users better application experiences. Optimized and modern resource management provided by VMware DRS can also help to lower your IT purchase and maintenance costs by reducing the number of servers necessary to run your applications.
Learn about current cybersecurity threats, what new threats are on the rise, and how to train the next generation of cyberprofessionals to help keep us secure.
What is over the Horizin for the CPA Profession? Tom Hood covers the latest developments in the CPA Profession and looks to the future in this four hour (Free CPE) session for members of the Maryland Association of CPAs. It covers the latest in the four major trend areas of Economic, Politica;/Legislative/Regulatory, Social/Demographic, and Technology. He finishes with tools and resources to help CPAs thrive in the "Extreme Future".
Riding the convergence of Social, Mobile, and Cloud to create new media model...Shree Dandekar
As the adoption of social, mobile and cloud computing continues to transform industries, organizations increasingly value how these technologies can improve customer engagement, forge new partnerships and drive competitive advantage. As great as the promise of convergence is, many organizations are still struggling to reinvent their business operations and keep pace with the explosion of mobile channels and volume of data being generated. This session will aim at not only discussing some of the natural use cases of this disruption like social casting but will provide a practical approach to marketers on how to realize an ROI from their social and mobile investments using analytics.
Exam II Review Session Information Security 365/765Nicholas Davis
Sample questions for EXAM II, in the Information Security 365/765 course, which I have been teaching at UW-Madison, this semester. After each question slide, you will find the correct answer. Try it out and let me know how well you do.
Most gamification fails because of reliance on a Skinner box-like approach that ignores core game design elements. This session will explore a gamification effort that went much deeper and succeeded.
In this session, we outline the development of a policy-driven scheduler that allows the Nova administrator (as well as Nova tenant administrators) to control placement decisions by writing policy statements that dictate which VMs or containers can be placed on which hosts. The DevOps-friendly, policy-driven scheduler plugs into the existing scheduler framework, to enable people to easily and quickly express custom scheduling rules and constraints, and at the same time provide assurances related to performance, security, and data integrity.
The State of the TCPA: Consent, Dialers, the FCC -- the Law is in Flux Ryan Thurman
With all of the recent rulings regarding the TCPA, how can companies navigate the TCPA waters, comply with the law, and still conduct their business? Join attorney David Kaminski for an in-depth review of the current law regarding dialers, consent under the TCPA and the FCC Rulings, and what companies face when seeking to comply with the current state of the law. For more info call 866-362-5478 or email info@dnc.com
Administrators can spend a great deal of time deploying and managing computing resources, especially when dealing with ROBO environments. The Dell PowerEdge VRTX, powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 v2 product family and running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, gives administrators centralized management tools to help them provide time saving benefits and integrated toolsets.
In our hands-on testing, we found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX greatly simplified deployment through an easy, wizard-based setup of Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clusters across server nodes with the Dell OpenManage Cluster Configurator. It also provided versatile hardware resource reassignment through a shared PCIe bus and efficient centralized management through CMC and scripting. Finally, we found that the Dell System Update Utility worked seamlessly with Microsoft Cluster-Aware Updating to update server nodes while keeping the failover cluster online and minimizing downtime. These advantages make the Dell PowerEdge VRTX an attractive choice for those who seek to reduce the management overhead of their ROBO environments.
As our tests show, investing in the powerful new Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle Database 12c pluggable databases achieves cost savings without compromising performance. In our testing, a single Dell PowerEdge R920 was able to do nine times the work of a single HP ProLiant DL385 G6 server while the power and cooling costs dropped by 64 percent when compared to the nine servers it could replace. At 17 percent less, three-year software licensing savings were so dramatic that they paid back the new server costs in just six months, and over three years could save just under $300,000.
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.
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.
Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 servers and gain better OLTP and VDI perf...Principled Technologies
Additionally, PowerEdge R6515 servers with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors could lower licensing costs and also empower your business to explore Kubernetes with VMware Tanzu
Update your private cloud with 14th generation Dell EMC PowerEdge FC640 serve...Principled Technologies
Critical Apache Cassandra NoSQL databases can offer reliability and flexibility for workloads like media streaming or social media. Running these databases in a private cloud can let you maintain control of your data while giving you the agility and flexibility the cloud provides.
In our datacenter, the Dell EMC PowerEdge FC640 solution powered by Intel Xeon Gold 5120 processors dramatically increased performance for Apache Cassandra workloads compared to a legacy solution. By choosing a solution that can do up to 4.7 times the work of the legacy solution, your infrastructure could handle more requests at a time—and we found that the Dell EMC PowerEdge FC640 solution could do all this additional work in less space, which could let you hold off on renting more datacenter space or on building out your existing space as your business grows.
Consolidating Web servers with the Dell PowerEdge FX2 enclosure and PowerEdge...Principled Technologies
Consolidating Web servers to a new environment can save you a great deal on operating costs such as power and cooling, and the shared nature of converged infrastructure solutions can maximize these savings. In our tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge FX2 enclosure with Intel Atom processor C2750-powered FM120 nodes provided better consolidation ratios and power efficiency than both the HP Moonshot 1500 shared infrastructure solution and the current-generation HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 v2 rack server. The Dell PowerEdge FX2 could consolidate 12 legacy Web servers and deliver up to 6.7 times the power efficiency that legacy servers would use. It also delivered up to 110.1 percent more performance/watt compared to the current-generation Web server solutions we tested from HP.
As these results show, the Dell PowerEdge FX2 with FM120x4 microserver blocks could provide your organization with dramatic power savings through consolidation, all while providing the Web server performance you require.
Configuring a highly available Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment on ...Principled Technologies
Setting up a highly available Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a straightforward process. In very little time, you can deploy Dell PowerEdge VRTX with up to four M-series nodes, switches, and storage in a redundant configuration using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, and setup your Exchange Server infrastructure. By setting up a highly available Exchange Server 2013 environment on your compact PowerEdge VRTX, you can ensure your Exchange workloads stay running to keep your business moving.
VxRail Appliance - Modernize your infrastructure and accelerate IT transforma...Maichino Sepede
An overview of the VxRail Appliance, including what’s new with VxRail on the 14th generation PowerEdge server, and advancements in the VxRail 4.5 software.
By upgrading from the legacy solution we tested to the new Intel processor-based Dell and VMware solution, you could do 18 times the work in the same amount of space. Imagine what that performance could mean to your business: Consolidate workloads from across your company, lower your power and cooling bills, and limit datacenter expansion in the future, all while maintaining a consistent user experience—the list of potential benefits is huge.
Try running DPACK, which can help you identify bottlenecks in your environment and inform you about your current performance needs. Then consider how the consolidation ratio we proved could be helpful for your company. The Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730 solution with VMware vSphere and Dell Storage SC4020, also powered by Intel, could be the right destination for your upgrade journey.
The benefits of self-service IT, automated scalability, and governance apply to IT organizations of any size. The architecture of your cloud is highly dependent on your organization's unique needs, but the principles of platform-neutrality, broad integration, modularity and scalability are universal.
Discover how Dell cloud solutions embody these principles, leveraging the power of virtualization and effective management to construct the private cloud environment that suits your needs.
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OLTP with Dell hybrid arrays: Comparing the EqualLogic PS6210XS with the Equa...Principled Technologies
The effectiveness of your OLTP database environment can depend to an enormous degree on the storage system you select. We compared a database server solution using the Dell EqualLogic PS6210XS with a database server solution using the previous-generation Dell EqualLogic PS6110XS.
The EqualLogic PS6210XS solution was superior in all areas we tested. It delivered greater performance with faster response time, and used less power. The Dell EqualLogic PS6210XS is a clear improvement over the previous-generation Dell EqualLogic PS6110XS.
Reduce complexity and save money with Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EV...Principled Technologies
Companies like ManuCorp have seemingly contradictory goals for their virtualized infrastructure: They want a solution that eases the deployment and management burden for generalized IT staff while simultaneously saving money over the long term. According to our analysis, ManuCorp would do well to choose Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO:RAIL, saving up to 63.9 percent in costs over three years compared to a solution with Cisco UCS blades and NetApp storage.
Less experienced administrators like ManuCorp already has in house would be able to plug in the Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO:RAIL and use its single, easy-to-use interface to deploy end-to-end virtual infrastructure and complete updates without any additional training or instruction. The Cisco UCS and NetApp solution required extra tools and a wider skillset, which can mean adding a more experienced person and inviting the chance for human error. In addition, the hyper-converged Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO:RAIL appliance reduced power consumption compared to the do-it-yourself environment with Cisco UCS blades and NetApp, which can contribute to big operating cost savings.
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.
Moving your legacy database workloads to the Dell PowerEdge R930 can help you realize the benefits of consolidation, which can include savings in management costs, power usage, and cable management costs. More importantly, the licensing costs of the database application itself may be reduced by the consolidation effort. In addition to these benefits, greater database transactions per minute can keep your orders flowing smoothly.
We found that the Dell PowerEdge R930, powered by the Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 series, could consolidate three legacy servers running four Oracle Database 12c VMs each. The Dell PowerEdge R930 outperformed the legacy server with 4.4 times the overall database performance, delivering an average of 47.1 percent more performance per VM. By consolidating that many legacy servers, you can save up to 67 percent in rack space, 25 percent in database licenses, and even reduce other operating costs to improve your bottom line.
Upgrading to Windows Server 2019 on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers: A simple proc...Principled Technologies
Using Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers with Intel Xeon Scalable processors, we upgraded from Windows Server 2016 and saw data compression ratios of up to 9.8:1 thanks to new Storage Spaces Direct features
MT23 Benefits of Modular Computing from Data Center to Branch OfficeDell EMC World
IT modernization, simplified management and cost reduction initiatives have propelled an industry shift to modular computing models from "one size fits all" approaches. In this session, we discuss how you can leverage innovative Modular Infrastructure solutions from Dell EMC to transform your environment- gaining greater control and efficiency while accelerating IT services- no matter the size and location of operations.
Database performance in blade environments: Dell PowerEdge M1000e vs. Cisco U...Principled Technologies
Scalable and reliable compute performance, in conjunction with your 16Gb Fibre Channel capability with SAN-based storage, means you don’t have to worry about your application VMs losing performance as your business grows. In our tests, the Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade environment delivered up to 91.7 percent greater throughput while running a virtualized OLTP database workload than the similarly priced Cisco UCS 5108 blade environment. More importantly, the Dell M1000e blade environment delivered consistent scaling as we added blade servers, in contrast to the performance degradation we observed in the Cisco UCS 5108 blade environment. The Dell M1000e also left room to grow within the 10U, with eight additional half-height slots available for compute nodes in the future, whereas the Cisco UCS 5108 blade environment would require a second enclosure to house additional blades. Finally, both solutions were similarly priced, so there is no additional cost associated with the advantages of the Dell environment. For applications demanding dense compute environments, high throughput, and lower response rates, companies will find the Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade environment better able to scale to meet predictable performance requirements as their business grows.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Compared to the Supermicro management portfolio
Conclusion
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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.
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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.
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Enterprises desiring the flexibility and convenience of the cloud for their block storage workloads can find fast-performing solutions with the enterprise storage features they’re used to in on-premises infrastructure by selecting Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS.
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HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation users can change the BIOS settings to dial in the performance mode that best suits their needs: High Performance Mode, Performance Mode, or Quiet Mode. In good
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Meet database performance needs while reducing TCO with the Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. a leading public cloud service
1. JUNE 2013
A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT
Commissioned by Dell Inc.
MEET DATABASE PERFORMANCE NEEDS WHILE REDUCING TCO WITH
THE DELL POWEREDGE VRTX VS. A LEADING PUBLIC CLOUD SERVICE
Databases power much of the work that goes on in small businesses and remote
offices, so performance is crucial in the day-to-day. Increasingly, many businesses are
considering running their databases from a cloud WAN service, but this practice can lead
to unexpected outages, performance degradation during peak times, and substantial
long-term costs. Running your database workloads locally gives you the performance
you need while costing far less in the long-term and affords you local control over your
databases and hardware.
One such complete local solution, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX, is a tested, shared
infrastructure solution that fits server nodes, switches, and shared storage into one
convenient box that can fit under a desk. In the Principled Technologies labs, we
compared a leading public cloud service and the local Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution and
found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX provided better value while running the same
transactional database workload. When comparing the total cost of ownership of
running 10 virtualized instances of Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 on Windows Server®
2012, purchasing and running the Dell PowerEdge VRTX could cost up to 63.9 percent
less over five years compared to the leading public cloud service, and could deliver
payback in just 13 months.
2. A Principled Technologies test report 2Meet database performance needs while reducing TCO with the
Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. a leading public cloud service
FOR A QUICK RETURN ON YOUR INVESTMENT, GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF
THE CLOUDS
Running databases in the cloud may be cheaper in the short term compared to
purchasing new hardware, but a WAN solution will quickly cost your organization more.
Further, cloud outages are out of your control. By running database workloads locally in
remote offices on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX, you can keep control of your important
databases and bypass WAN connections in favor of a LAN.
We used VMware® vSphere® 5 to create 10 virtual machines (VMs) on the Dell
PowerEdge VRTX, and ran an instance of SQL Server 2012 in each. We configured an
equivalent single instance on the leading public cloud service and compared the cost of
running 10 instances of this against the 10 VMs running on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX.
For detailed system information, see Appendix A. For complete details on how we
tested, see Appendix B.
Achieve the transactional database performance your business needs with VRTX
We tested and found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with local databases
comfortably supported 10 VMs running transactional database workloads, with each
VM configured similarly and achieving the same baseline performance as a typical cloud-
hosted database instance.
To test this, we established the baseline performance for each virtual machine
instance running a transactional workload as 1,000 orders per minute (OPM). This
represented 250 simulated database users generating approximately four orders per
minute on each of the VMs. We configured a single instance on a leading public cloud
service with SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012, and ran our test workload on it
to ensure that it achieved the requisite OPM. We then determined the number of
similarly configured VMs the Dell PowerEdge VRTX could support while running the
same workload by scaling out the number of VMs up to the greatest number before
they no longer achieved the requisite OPM, which we determined to be 10 VMs.
Please note that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX we tested was representative of a
typical two-server node configuration. You could expect to achieve even greater
virtualization capacity and performance by adding server nodes and more or faster
drives to the shared storage.
3. A Principled Technologies test report 3Meet database performance needs while reducing TCO with the
Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. a leading public cloud service
LOWER TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP WITH DELL POWEREDGE VRTX
Whether you run a small business with a single office or have many branch
offices scattered across the globe, keeping costs as low as possible is crucial to success.
While choosing to host databases in the cloud might seem convenient and cost-
effective, we found that purchasing and running the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution
could deliver as much as a 63.9 percent lower five-year total cost of ownership (TCO)
than using a leading public cloud service for 10 SQL Server 2012 instances (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: The Dell PowerEdge
VRTX delivered a 63.9
percent lower TCO than using
a leading public cloud service
to host databases. $97,232.70
$269,374.65
$0
$50,000
$100,000
$150,000
$200,000
$250,000
$300,000
Dell PowerEdge VRTX Leading public cloud service
Dollars(US)
Five-year cost savings of up to $172,141.95 for a Dell
PowerEdge VRTX solution
Year 5 costs
Year 4 costs
Year 3 costs
Year 2 costs
Year 1 costs
VRTX acquisition cost
Although the VRTX has an up-front acquisition cost, its monthly cost is
significantly lower than that of the leading public cloud service. After five years, the Dell
PowerEdge VRTX solution is $172,141.95 cheaper, saving 63.9 percent (see Figure 2).
Dell PowerEdge VRTX Leading public cloud service
Acquisition cost $46,090.00
Year 1 costs $10,228.54 $53,874.93
Year 2 costs $10,228.54 $53,874.93
Year 3 costs $10,228.54 $53,874.93
Year 4 costs $10,228.54 $53,874.93
Year 5 costs $10,228.54 $53,874.93
Total $97,232.70 $269,374.65
Figure 2: The Dell PowerEdge VRTX costs up to $172,141.95 less than the leading public cloud service after five years.
4. A Principled Technologies test report 4Meet database performance needs while reducing TCO with the
Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. a leading public cloud service
With the Dell PowerEdge VRTX, we found that you could achieve payback, or a
return on your investment (ROI), in as little as 13 months (see Figures 3 and 4).
Figure 3: The Dell PowerEdge
VRTX can deliver payback in as
little as 13 months.
$0
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$100,000
$150,000
$200,000
$250,000
$300,000
0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60
Dollars(US)
Months
Break even in 13 months with Dell PowerEdge VRTX
solution (for 10 SQL Server instances)
Dell
PowerEdge
VRTX
Leading
public cloud
service
Payback category Dell PowerEdge VRTX
Leading public cloud
service
Difference
One-time initial investment $46,090.00 $0.00 $46,090.00
Monthly cost $852.38 $4,489.58 $3,637.20
Payback period ($46,090.00/$3,637.20=12.67 months)
Figure 4: The Dell PowerEdge VRTX can pay back your investment in 12.67 months, so by the 13th month the return of investment
is completed.
The Dell PowerEdge VRTX was able to deliver a lower TCO and quicker ROI
compared to the leading public cloud service due to lower yearly operating costs.
For complete details of our TCO analysis, see Appendix C.
5. A Principled Technologies test report 5Meet database performance needs while reducing TCO with the
Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. a leading public cloud service
ALL-IN-ONE SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE
The Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution with M-series compute nodes is an all-in-one
solution designed to handle the performance needs of your small-to medium-business
or remote office. Here, we provide information about each of the components we used
as part of this solution.
About the Dell PowerEdge VRTX
The Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a compact, all-in-one solution in a 5U rack-able
tower chassis. Designed to be quiet under normal operating conditions, the Dell
PowerEdge VRTX can be stowed under a desk in a small office without disrupting
conversations. Its four bays house M520 or M620 compute nodes, providing a space-
saving alternative to having four separate tower or rack servers. In addition to space
savings, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX provides administrators with a unified interface, the
Chassis Management Controller, for performing routine systems management tasks.
The Dell PowerEdge VRTX chassis supports up to 48 TB of shared internal storage that is
presentable as virtual drives to single or multiple compute nodes, and provides optional
pass-through and eight PCIe slots for additional device connectivity. The chassis
integrated storage can be configured with 25 bays for 2.5-inch drives or with 12 bays for
3.5-inch drives. The Dell PowerEdge VRTX integrated switch contains multiple external
network ports for easy expansion or integration into any computing environment.
For more information about the Dell PowerEdge VRTX, visit
www.dell.com/poweredge.
About the Dell PowerEdge M620 server nodes
The Dell PowerEdge M620 server node has features optimized for performance,
density, and energy efficiency.
Processors. The Dell PowerEdge M620 is powered by two Intel® Xeon® E5-
2600-series processors, which incorporate the very latest in processor
technology from Intel. The powerful processors provide the performance
you need for your essential mainstream tasks. The Intel Xeon E5-2600-series
processor gives you up to eight cores per processor, or up to 16 cores per
server.
Memory. The Dell PowerEdge M620 holds up to 768GB DDR3 RAM (up to
1600 MHz) across 24 DIMM slots per compute node.
Management. The Dell PowerEdge M620, like all late-model Dell servers,
comes with the Dell Lifecycle Controller. This tool simplifies server
management by providing a single interface for management functions and
by storing critical system information in the system itself. There are no CDs
or USB keys to keep track of for drivers or firmware.
Dell
PowerEdge
VRTX with 12
3.5-inch drives
Dell
PowerEdge
VRTX with 25
2.5-inch drives
6. A Principled Technologies test report 6Meet database performance needs while reducing TCO with the
Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. a leading public cloud service
About VMware vSphere 5
vSphere 5 is the latest virtualization operating system from VMware. vSphere 5
virtualizes server, storage, and networking resources, achieving a consolidation ratio
greater than 15:1. Features such as automated management and dynamic resource
allocation improve efficiency. The services that vSphere 5 provides fall into two
categories: infrastructure services and application services. The former handle the
virtualization of resources and their allocation to application when most needed, while
the latter provide service-level controls to applications running on vSphere 5.
To learn more about VMware vSphere 5, visit
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/overview.html.
WHAT WE TESTED
To create our real-world ecommerce workload, we used the DVD Store Version
2.1 (DS2) benchmarking tool. DS2 models an online DVD store, where customers log in,
search for movies, and make purchases. DS2 reports these actions in orders per minute
(OPM) that the system could handle, to show what kind of performance you could
expect for your customers. The DS2 workload also performs other actions, such as
adding new customers, to exercise the wide range of database functions you would
need to run your ecommerce environment. For more information about the DS2 tool,
see http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/DVD+Store.
IN CONCLUSION
Cloud WAN services can seem convenient for small businesses and remote
offices, but they remove local control and can be more expensive over time. In our tests,
the all-in-one Dell PowerEdge VRTX provided the necessary transactional database
performance while saving up to 63.9 percent in costs over five years. When you’re
looking for a reliable solution to run workloads in remote offices, the Dell PowerEdge
VRTX has the potential to cost less than running databases from the cloud.
7. A Principled Technologies test report 7Meet database performance needs while reducing TCO with the
Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. a leading public cloud service
APPENDIX A – SYSTEM CONFIGURATION INFORMATION
Figure 5 provides detailed configuration information for the test system.
System Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution
Enclosure
Compute node enclosure Dell PowerEdge VRTX
General dimensions of compute node enclosure
Height (inches) 8
Width (inches) 19
Depth (inches) 29.5
U size in server rack (U) 5
Power supplies
Total number 4
Vendor and model number Dell 80 Plus Platinum E1100E-S0 (P/N 0YT39Y)
Wattage of each (W) 1,100
Cooling fans
Total number 6
Vendor and model number Delta Electronics, Inc.
Dimensions (h x w) of each 60mm x 60mm
Volts 12
Chassis RAID controller
Vendor and model number Dell SPERC8
Firmware version 23.8.2-0005
Cache size (GB) 1
Chassis shared hard drives
Hard drive #1
Vendor and model number Seagate® ST300MM0006
Number of drives 5
Size (GB) 300
RPM 10,000
Hard drive #2
Vendor and model number Western Digital WD3000BKHG
Number of drives 10
Size (GB) 300
RPM 10,000
Chassis USB ports
Number 2
Type 2.0
Platform
Number of server nodes 2
Vendor and model number Dell PowerEdge M620
Motherboard model number 0VHRN7A05
Motherboard chipset Intel C600
BIOS name and version Dell BIOS 1.7.0
8. A Principled Technologies test report 8Meet database performance needs while reducing TCO with the
Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. a leading public cloud service
System Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution
BIOS settings Default
General
Number of processor packages 2
Number of cores per processor 6
Number of hardware threads per core 2
System power management policy Performance
CPU
Vendor Intel
Name Xeon E5-2620
Stepping C2
Socket type Socket 2011 LGA
Core frequency (GHz) 2.00
L1 cache 32 KB (per core)
L2 cache 256 KB (per core)
L3 cache 15 MB (shared)
Memory modules (per node)
Total RAM in system (GB) 32
Vendor and model number Hynix Semiconductor HMT31GR7CFR4C-PB
Type DDR3-12800
Speed (MHz) 1,600
Speed in the system currently running @ (MHz) 1,333
Timing/latency (tCL-tRCD-iRP-tRASmin) 11-11-11-35
Size (GB) 8
Number of RAM modules 4
Chip organization Double-sided
RAID controller
Vendor and model number Dell PERC H310 mini
Firmware version 20.12.0-0004
Cache size (GB) 0 MB
Hard drive
Vendor and model number Dell Seagate® Constellation.2™
Number of drives 2
Size (GB) 250
RPM 7.2K
Type SATA
Network adapter
Vendor and model number Broadcom® NetXtreme® II 10 Gb Ethernet BCM57810
Type Embedded
Number of ports 2
USB ports (per node)
Number 3
Type 2.0
Figure 5: Detailed configuration information for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution.
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APPENDIX B - HOW WE TESTED
For comparison purposes, we selected a typical Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012-based database
instance from a leading public cloud service. This particular instance came configured with 1 vCPU, 3.75GB RAM, and the
smallest available data volume with up to 1,000 IOPS of available storage performance. This would provide sufficient
throughput to handle peaks in our transactional database workload. We then configured each VM on the Dell
PowerEdge VRTX to match the leading public cloud service instance approximately. In both cases, we ran all available
Windows Updates as of June 21, 2013, and patched SQL Server 2012 instances with Service Pack 1. We detail our Dell
PowerEdge VRTX configuration steps below.
Configuring the VRTX network
1. Open a Web browser, and enter the address listed for the CMC IP on the front LCD display.
2. Log in with the username root and the password calvin.
3. Expand I/O Module Overview.
4. Click Gigabit Ethernet.
5. Click the Properties tab.
6. Click the Launch I/O Module GUI button.
7. Log in with the username root and the password calvin.
8. Click Submit.
9. Expand SwitchingVLAN, and click VLAN Membership.
10. Under the VLAN Membership tab, click Add.
a. Enter a VLAN ID number (1000).
b. Enter a VLAN Name (vMotion).
c. Click Apply.
11. Click SwitchingVLANPort Settings.
12. Under the Port Settings tab, click Edit.
a. Select the Internal Port radio button.
b. After the screen populates, use the pull-down menu to select gi1/2.
c. In VLAN list, click 1, and click Remove.
d. Enter 1000 in the VLAN list box, and click Add.
e. Click Apply.
f. Use the drop-down menu to select gi2/2.
g. In the VLAN list, click 1, and click Remove.
h. Enter 1000 in the VLAN list, and click Add.
i. Click Apply.
13. Click the floppy drive icon in upper-right portion of the configuration pane to save all new settings to start-up
configuration.
14. Click Log out.
15. Click OK.
Configuring the VRTX shared storage
1. Open a Web browser, and enter the address listed for the CMC IP on the front LCD display.
2. Log in with the appropriate credentials.
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3. Expand Storage.
4. Click Storage.
5. Click the Setup tab.
a. Under Assignment Mode, select the radio button for Multiple Assignment, and click Apply.
b. Click OK to confirm the message box indicating Operation Successful.
6. Configure virtual disks:
a. Click StorageVirtual Disks.
b. On the Virtual Disks tab, click Create.
i. For Choose a virtual disk type, select RAID 10.
ii. Select all available disks (14 drives for the RAID 10).
iii. Accept the default size, and click Create Virtual Disk.
iv. Click OK to confirm the message box indicating Operation Successful.
c. On the Virtual Disks tab, click Manage.
i. Select the Virtual Disks Action pull-down menu for Virtual Disk 0 and initialize the drives.
ii. Click Apply.
iii. Click OK to confirm the message box indicating Operation Successful once the initialization
completes.
iv. Select the Virtual Disks Action pull-down menu for Virtual Disk 0 and select Assign Dedicated Hot
spare. Select the remaining physical disk.
v. Click Apply.
vi. Click OK to confirm the message box indicating Operation Successful.
d. In this step, we will allow shared LUN access to both compute nodes. On the Virtual Disks tab, click
Assign.
i. Use the pull-down menu for Virtual Disk 0 and SLOT-01, and select Full Access.
ii. Use the pull-down menu for Virtual Disk 0 and SLOT-02, and select Full Access.
iii. Click Apply.
iv. Click OK to confirm the message box indicating Operation Successful.
Configuring VRTX server nodes
Configuring VMware vSphere (ESXi) embedded on server nodes
1. Open a Web browser, and enter the address listed for the CMC IP on the front LCD display.
2. Log in with the appropriate credentials.
3. Expand Server Overview, and select Slot-01.
4. Click the Setup Tab. Perform the following steps in the iDRAC settings:
a. Check the box for Enable LAN.
b. Check the box for Enable IPv4.
c. Check the box for DHCP.
d. Check the box for IPMI Over LAN.
e. Click Apply iDRAC Network Settings.
f. To confirm changes to the iDRAC network settings, click OK.
5. Click the Power Tab.
a. Select Power On Server.
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b. Click Apply.
c. To confirm server control action, click OK.
d. To confirm operation was successful, click OK.
6. Click the Properties tab.
7. Click Launch Remote Console.
8. On new browser page, click Continue to website (not recommended) if prompted.
a. If a message appears indicating a pop-up was blocked, select Always allow pop-ups from this site.
b. Close the browser tab for the iDRAC.
c. Click Launch Remote Console.
d. If a message appears indicating the Web page wants to run an add-on called “Virtual Console from Dell
Inc.,” select Allow for all websites.
9. A new window appears showing the console for the server to configure. Select PowerReset System.
10. Change the boot disk order in System Setup.
a. When prompted during POST, press F2 to enter System Setup.
b. Click BIOS.
c. Click Boot Settings.
d. Click BIOS Boot Settings.
e. Scroll down, and click Hard Disk Drive Sequence.
i. Highlight the entry for SD card or USB drive, and move it to the top using the + key.
ii. Click OK.
f. Click Back twice.
g. Click Finish.
h. Click Yes.
i. Click Finish.
j. Click OK. The system will restart.
11. Complete configuration of ESXi host:
a. Press F2 to configure.
b. Enter the root account password, and press Enter.
c. Select Configure Management Network, and press Enter.
d. Select Network Adapters, and press Enter.
i. Clear the checkbox for vmnic0.
ii. Check the checkbox for vmnic1.
iii. Press Enter.
e. Press Esc.
f. To restart networking, press Y.
g. Select Troubleshooting Options.
i. Select Enable ESXi shell, and press Enter.
ii. Select Enable SSH, and press Enter.
iii. Press Esc.
h. To log out, press Esc.
12. Repeat above Server Setup steps for each additional server you wish to configure.
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Configuring VRTX vSphere environment
1. Configure Slot 1 host:
a. Open a new vSphere client session
b. Connect to the IP address for the server in Slot 1
c. Log into the root account
d. Add shared storage.
i. Click the Host configuration tab.
ii. Click the Storage menu.
iii. Click Add Storage…
iv. Select Disk/LUN, and click Next.
v. Select Local Dell Disk, and click Next.
vi. Select VMFS-5, and click Next.
vii. Review the disk layout, and click Next.
viii. Enter an appropriate datastore name. For our testing, we selected VRTX-Shared-01. Click Next.
ix. Accept maximum space available, and click Next.
x. Click Finish to begin Formatting and addition to node.
e. Configure vMotion network
i. Click the Networking menu.
ii. Click Add Networking…
iii. Select VMkernel, and click Next.
iv. Select the unused network adapter, and click Next.
v. Assign the network label as vMotion, check the box for Use this port group for vMotion, and
click Next.
vi. Enter the appropriate IP address and subnet mask. For our testing, we used 192.168.0.50 for the
IP address with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Click Next.
vii. Click Finish to create the network.
2. Configure Slot 2 host:
a. Open a new vSphere client session.
b. Connect to the IP address for the server in Slot 2.
c. Log into the root account.
d. Add shared storage:
i. Click the Host Configuration tab.
ii. Click the Storage menu.
iii. The new storage should appear automatically. If no storage is listed, click Rescan All…
iv. Click OK to rescan all adapters. The shared storage will appear automatically with the name
VRTX-shared-01 already configured.
e. Configure vMotion network:
i. Click the Networking menu.
ii. Click Add Networking…
iii. Select VMkernel, and click Next.
iv. Select the unused network adapter, and click Next.
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v. Assign the network label as vMotion, check the box for Use this port group for vMotion, and
click Next
vi. Enter the IP address and subnet mask. For our testing, we used 192.168.0.51 for the IP address
and255.255.255.0 for the subnet mask. Click Next.
vii. Click Finish to create the network.
3. Install and configure vCenter Server:
a. Install the vCenter appliance to an external ESXi host server:
i. In the vSphere client, select FileDeploy OVF Template.
ii. Browse to the location of the vCenter Server Appliance .ovf file, and click Open.
iii. In the OVF Template Details page, click Next.
iv. In Name and Location, enter vCenter Server for the name, and click Next.
v. Select the appropriate datastore, and click Next.
vi. Select a disk format, and click Next.
vii. Check the box for Power on after deployment, and click Finish.
b. Configure the vCenter appliance:
i. Right-click the new vCenter, and select Open Console.
ii. Note the instructions and the address to use for configuration.
iii. Open a Web browser to the address listed in the console.
iv. Log in with root and the password vmware.
v. Check the box for accept license agreement, and click Next.
vi. Select the radio button for Configure with default settings, and click Next.
vii. Click Start. Setup will complete and a new database will be configured automatically.
viii. Click the Admin Tab.
1. Enter vmware in the current administrator password section.
2. Enter a new password into both password fields.
3. Click Change Password.
c. Add both server nodes to the vCenter:
i. Open a new vSphere client session, and connect to the IP address assigned to the vCenter Server
Appliance during installation.
ii. Log into the root account
iii. Right-click the item at the top of the left hand pane in the client, and select New Datacenter.
iv. Select an appropriate name for the Datacenter. For our testing, we selected VRTX-01.
v. Right-click VRTX-01, and select Add Host.
vi. Enter the IP address of the ESXi host in Slot 1.
vii. Log into the root account.
viii. Click Next.
ix. Click Yes to verify the authenticity and complete the import.
x. Click Next.
xi. Select a license to assign, and click Next.
xii. Do not check Enable Lockdown Mode, and click Next.
xiii. Click Next.
xiv. Click Finish.
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xv. Repeat steps 1 through 10 for the ESXi host in Slot 2.
4. Set up a high availability cluster:
a. Right-click the VRTX-01 Datacenter.
b. Select New Cluster.
c. Name the cluster. For our testing, we used VRTX-01-C1.
d. Check the box for Turn On vSphere HA, and click Next.
e. Accept all vSphere HA defaults, and click Next.
f. Accept Virtual Machine Options defaults, and click Next.
g. Accept VM Monitoring defaults, and click Next.
h. Accept VMware EVC defaults, and click Next.
i. Accept VM Swapfile Location defaults, and click Next.
j. Click Finish to create the cluster.
k. Click and drag each ESXi host into the cluster to populate it.
Configuring VM networking
1. Using the vSphere client from another machine, connect to the ESXi server.
2. Add the necessary vSwitch for the network that DVD Store traffic will use:
a. Click the host, click the Configuration tab, and click Networking.
b. Click Add Networking.
c. Choose Virtual Machine, and click Next.
d. Choose create a vSphere standard switch.
e. Choose the NIC associated with VM traffic.
f. Assign the network label and assign IP settings.
g. Click Finish.
Configuring the external volumes
1. In the vSphere client, select the host.
2. Click the Configuration tab.
3. Click Storage, and click Add Storage…
4. Choose Disk/LUN.
5. Select the disk, and click Next.
6. Accept the default of VMFS-5 for the file system.
7. Review the disk layout, and click Next.
8. Enter the datastore name, and click Next.
9. Accept the default of using maximum capacity, and click Next.
10. Click Finish.
Creating the first VM
1. In the vSphere client, connect to the ESXi host.
2. Click the Virtual Machines tab.
3. Right-click, and choose New Virtual Machine.
4. Choose Custom, and click Next.
5. Assign a name to the virtual machine, and click Next.
6. Select the first assigned OS Datastore on the external storage, and click Next.
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7. Choose Virtual Machine Version 8, and click Next.
8. Choose Windows, and choose Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit), and click Next.
9. Choose 1 virtual socket, and 1 virtual processors per core, and click Next.
10. Choose 4GB RAM, and click Next.
11. Click 1 for the number of NICs, select vmxnet3, and click Next.
12. Leave the default virtual storage controller, and click Next.
13. Choose to create a new virtual disk, and click Next.
14. Make the OS virtual disk size 40 GB, and choose thick-provisioned lazy zeroed.
15. Keep the default virtual device node (0:0), and click Next.
16. Click Finish.
17. Right-click the VM, and choose Edit Settings.
18. On the Hardware tab, click Add…
19. Click Hard Disk, and click Next.
20. Choose to create a new virtual disk, and click Next.
21. Make the data/logs virtual disk 30GB, and choose thick-provisioned lazy zeroed.
22. Select Store with Virtual Machine, and click Next.
23. Select Physical compatibility mode, and click Next.
24. Choose SCSI(1:1) for the device node, and click Next.
25. Click SCSI Controller 1, and choose Change Type.
26. Choose VMware Paravirtual, and click OK.
27. Click Finish, and click OK.
28. Start the VM.
29. Attach the Windows Server 2012 ISO image to the VM and install Windows Server 2012 on your VM.
Configuring the VMs
See the above sections regarding the initial creation of the virtual machines. We provide steps below for
installing the operating system, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, and configuring the VMs.
Installing the VM operating system on the first VM
1. Connect to the ISO image of the installation DVD for Windows Server 2012 Enterprise from the VM console. If
the ISO image is not stored on the host, start the VM first and then connect to the ISO image.
2. Start the VM.
3. At the Language Selection Screen, click Next.
4. Click Install Now.
5. Select Windows Server 2012 Enterprise (Full Installation), and click Next.
6. Click the I accept the license terms check box, and click Next.
7. Click Custom.
8. Click Next.
9. At the User’s password must be changed before logging on warning screen, click OK.
10. Enter the desired password for the administrator in both fields, and click the arrow to continue.
11. At the Your password has been changed screen, click OK.
12. Install the latest VMware tools package on the VM. Restart as necessary.
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13. Connect the machine to the Internet, and install all available Windows updates. Restart as necessary.
14. Enable remote desktop access.
15. Change the hostname and reboot when prompted.
16. Create a shared folder to store test script files. Set permissions as needed.
17. Set up networking:
a. Click StartControl Panel, right-click Network Connections, and choose Open.
b. Right-click the VM traffic NIC, and choose Properties.
c. Select TCP/IP (v4), and choose Properties.
d. Set the IP address, subnet, gateway, and DNS server for the virtual NIC, which will handle outgoing server
traffic. Click OK, and click Close.
18. In the VM, configure the VM storage:
a. Click the Server Manager icon in the taskbar.
b. In the left pane, expand Storage, and click Disk Management.
c. Right-click the first volume, and choose Initialize Disk.
d. In the right pane, right-click the volume, and choose New Simple VoIume…
e. At the welcome window, click Next.
f. At the Specify Volume Size window, leave the default selection, and click Next.
g. At the Assign Drive Letter or Path window, choose a drive letter, and click Next.
h. At the Format Partition window, choose NTFS and 64K allocation unit size, and click Next.
i. At the Completing the New Simple Volume Wizard window, click Finish.
19. Copy the pre-created DVD Store backup file to the backup virtual disk inside the first VM.
Installing SQL Server 2012 on the first VM
1. Open the vSphere console for the VM or connect to the VM with RDP.
2. Log into the virtual machine.
3. Connect to the ISO image of the installation DVD for SQL Server 2012 Enterprise from the VM console or the
menu in the vSphere Client.
4. Click Run SETUP.EXE. If Autoplay does not begin the installation, navigate to the SQL Server 2012 DVD, and
double-click.
5. If the installer prompts you with a .NET installation prompt, click Yes to enable the .NET Framework Core role.
6. In the left pane, click Installation.
7. Click New SQL Server stand-alone installation or add features to an existing installation.
8. At the Setup Support Rules screen, wait for the rule check to complete. If there are no failures or relevant
warnings, click OK.
9. Select the Specify a free edition and select Evaluation from the drop-down menu. Click Next.
10. Click the checkbox to accept the license terms, and click Next.
11. If no failures are displayed after the setup support files are installed, click Next.
12. At the Setup Role screen, choose SQL Server Feature Installation.
13. At the Feature Selection screen, select Database Engine Services, Full-Text and Semantic Extractions for Search,
Client Tools Connectivity, Client Tools Backwards Compatibility, Management Tools – Basic, and Management
Tools – Complete. Click Next.
14. At the Installation Rules screen, click Next once the check completes.
15. At the Instance configuration screen, choose a named instance, specify an instance name, and click Next.
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16. At the Disk Space Requirements screen, click Next.
17. At the Server Configuration screen, choose system accounts, such as NT ServiceMSSQLSERVER, for SQL Server
services. Click Next.
18. At the next error-checking screen, click Next.
19. At the Database Engine Configuration screen, select Mixed Mode.
20. Enter and confirm a password for the system administrator account.
21. Click Add Current user. This may take several seconds.
22. Click Next.
23. At the Error-and usage-reporting screen, click Next.
24. At the Installation Configuration Rules screen, check that there are no failures or relevant warnings, and click
Next.
25. At the Ready to Install screen, click Install.
26. After installation completes, click Close.
27. Create a SQL Server login for the ds2user (see the Configuring the database (DVD Store) section for the specific
script to use).
28. Copy the pre-created DVD Store backup to the specified backup VM volume.
Configuring additional VMs on VMware vSphere 5
1. Right-click the first VM, and choose Clone.
2. Name the new VM.
3. Choose the cluster, and select the host.
4. For the storage screen, choose the OS LUN.
5. Choose to customize using the customization wizard. Save the clone details as a new customization
specification.
6. Continue cloning each VM, modifying the customization specification as necessary for IP addressing and so on.
7. Ensure in each VM that the necessary virtual disks are all online, the hostname is renamed, and the IP
addressing was properly assigned by the customization wizard.
8. Modify the SQL Server hostname of each VM using the instructions provided by Microsoft
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143799.aspx).
9. To configure automatic start for your specified number of VMs, click the Host configuration tab in the vSphere
client, and click Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown.
Configuring the database (DVD Store)
Data generation overview
We generated the data using the Install.pl script included with DVD Store version 2.1 (DS2), providing the
parameters for our 4GB database size and the database platform on which we ran: Microsoft SQL Server. We ran the
Install.pl script on a utility system running Linux. The database schema was also generated by the Install.pl script.
After processing the data generation, we transferred the data files and schema creation files to a Windows-
based system running SQL Server 2012. We built the 4GB database in SQL Server 2012, and then performed a full
backup, storing the backup file on the C: drive for quick access. We used that backup file to restore on both servers
between test runs. We performed this procedure once, and used the same backup file for all VMware vSphere 5 virtual
machines.
The only modification we made to the schema creation scripts were the specified file sizes for our database. We
explicitly set the file sizes higher than necessary to ensure that no file-growth activity would affect the outputs of the
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test. Besides this file size modification, the database schema was created and loaded according to the DVD Store
documentation. Specifically, we followed the steps below:
1. We generated the data and created the database and file structure using database creation scripts in the DS2
download. We made size modifications specific to our 4GB database and the appropriate changes to drive
letters.
2. We transferred the files from our Linux data generation system to a Windows system running SQL Server.
3. We created database tables, stored procedures, and objects using the provided DVD Store scripts.
4. We set the database recovery model to bulk-logged to prevent excess logging.
5. We loaded the data we generated into the database. For data loading, we used the import wizard in SQL Server
Management Studio. Where necessary, we retained options from the original scripts, such as Enable
IdentityInsert.
6. We created indices, full-text catalogs, primary keys, and foreign keys using the database-creation scripts.
7. We updated statistics on each table according to database-creation scripts, which sample 18 percent of the
table data.
8. On the SQL Server instance, we created a ds2user SQL Server login using the following Transact SQL (TSQL)
script:
USE [master]
GO
CREATE LOGIN [ds2user] WITH PASSWORD=N’’,
DEFAULT_DATABASE=[master],
DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=[us_english],
CHECK_EXPIRATION=OFF,
CHECK_POLICY=OFF
GO
9. We set the database recovery model back to full.
10. We created the necessary full text index using SQL Server Management Studio.
11. We created a database user, and mapped this user to the SQL Server login.
12. We then performed a full backup of the database. This backup allowed us to restore the databases to a pristine
state relatively quickly between tests.
Editing the workload script – ds2xdriver.cs module
A new feature of DVD Store version 2.1 is the ability to target multiple targets from one source client. We used
this functionality, and in order to record the orders per minute output from each specific database target, we modified
the ds2xdriver to output this information to log files on each client system. To do this, we used the StreamWriter
method to create a new text file on the client system, and the WriteLine and Flush methods to write the relevant
outputs to the files during the tests.
After making these changes, we recompiled the ds2xdriver.cs and ds2sqlserverfns.cs module in Windows by
following the instructions in the DVD Store documentation. Because the DS2 instructions were for compiling from the
command line, we used the following steps on a system with Visual Studio installed:
1. Open a command prompt.
2. Use the cd command to change to the directory containing our sources.
3. Execute the following command:
csc /out:ds2sqlserverdriver.exe ds2xdriver.cs ds2sqlserverfns.cs /d:USE_WIN32_TIMER /d:GEN_PERF_CTRS
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DVD Store test settings
We used the following DVD Store parameters for testing the virtual machines in this study:
ds2sqlserverdriver.exe --target=<target_IP> --ramp_rate=10 --run_time=20 --
n_threads=12 --db_size=4GB --detailed_view=Y --warmup_time=1 –think_time=0.5
Running the DVD Store tests
We created a series of batch files, SQL scripts, and shell scripts to automate the complete test cycle. DVD Store
outputs an orders-per-minute metric, which is a running average calculated through the test. In this report, we report
the last OPM reported by each client/target pair.
Each complete test cycle consisted of the general steps listed below. For each scenario, we ran three test cycles,
and chose the median outcome.
1. Clean up prior outputs from the host system and all client driver systems.
2. Drop all databases from all target VMs.
3. Restore all databases on all target VMs.
4. Shut down all VMs.
5. Reboot the host system.
6. Wait for a ping response from the server under test (the hypervisor system), and all VMs.
7. Start the DVD Store driver on all respective VMs
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APPENDIX C – TCO CALCULATIONS
In this section, we analyze the costs of the Dell PowerEdge VRTX and the leading public cloud service over five
years, detailing the assumptions and formulas we used in our calculations. We focus our analysis on hardware and
software costs, hardware and software support, energy costs, and management costs. We did not consider space needs
for the VRTX, because its small form factor allows it to be stowed under a desk or in a closet easily. In an analysis specific
to your enterprise, you might also want to consider additional areas of savings and benefit such as having direct access
to the hardware components. Figure 6 breaks down the costs we used for our analysis.
Dell PowerEdge VRTX Leading public cloud service
Acquisition costs
Hardware cost $22,710.00 N/A
Software cost $23,380.00 N/A
Total acquisition costs $46,090.00 N/A
Annual operational costs
OS software support – Software
Assurance for Microsoft Windows
Server 2012 Datacenter Edition
$2,045.00 N/A
DB Software support – Software
Assurance for Microsoft SQL
Server 2012 Standard
$2,694.00 N/A
VMware vSphere 5 Standard
Basic support
$1,092.00 N/A
Hardware support $1,300.00 N/A
Energy costs $937.54 N/A
Hardware management $600.00 N/A
VMware management $1,200.00 N/A
Reservation cost per year N/A $5,133.33
Cost per year (10 instances) N/A $48,741.60
Total annual costs $10,228.54 $53,874.93
Average cost per month $852.38 $4,489.58
Figure 6: Monthly cost savings for using 10 SQL Server 2012 instances with the Dell PowerEdge VRTX shared infrastructure solution
as compared to a leading public cloud service.
Key assumptions
We calculate costs for 10 SQL instances on each solution – 10 VMs on the VRTX and 10 reserved SQL Server 2012
instances on the cloud solution.
Each instance uses one virtual core.
We use current dollars for all calculations.
We use undiscounted costs for hardware and software.
We annualize multi-year costs for software support for the VRTX solution and three-year costs for the instance
reservations for the cloud solution.
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We assume all tasks are carried out by a system administrator earning the equivalent of $50 an hour in salary
and benefits, based on the average national salary for this job of $103,649.1
We include staff costs for the VRTX solution that the on-premise hardware and VMware VSphere 5 virtualization
solution would require.
We assume an existing VMware vCenter server that is not included in this cost analysis.
We consider only the costs that are platform specific. We thus omit staff costs for tasks that would be common
to the two solutions and would require same or similar effort and cost on the two solutions – costs of setting up
and maintaining the SQL Server databases, updating the operating system versions, and updating the SQL server
versions as updates become available over the five-year TCO timeframe.
We include only server licensing in this model and omit client access license costs and other client licensing.
For the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution, we include software license costs with acquisition costs and software
support costs with annual costs.
For the cloud solution, we include the costs to reserve instances as part of the annual costs. We include one-
third of the cost of the three-year instance reservation in annual costs for each year.
We do not include data center costs such as space or build costs for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution because
we assume this solution with its quiet fans and small footprint will be installed within the SMB or branch office,
not in a centralized Enterprise data center.
We include costs to power and cool the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution. We estimate cooling costs as the same as
power costs.
Cloud solution costs
We used the cloud provider’s online cost estimation tool to estimate costs for the cloud instance we used in our
testing. We estimated costs for an instance defined as follows:
A medium-sized Standard SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition Instance for which we estimate 60 percent average
utilization per month
500 GB of storage in a volume with 1,000 provisioned IOPS
The tool reported a one-time instance reservation cost and a monthly cost for the instance. We divided the one-
time three-year instance reservation cost of $1,540 that by three years to estimate an annual instance reservation cost
for one instance of $513.33.
For TCO calculations, we assume 10 SQL Server cloud instances to match the 10 instances that we tested on the
Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution. To get estimates, we multiplied costs for the single cloud instance by 10 arriving at an
annual instance reservation cost for 10 instances of $5,133.33 and a total annual cost of $48,741.60 (for monthly
charges).
Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution costs
Acquisition costs
Acquisition costs include purchase costs for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX hardware that we tested; license costs for
the Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, and VMware vSphere 5 software versions that we
tested with; and IT costs to setup the system. Figure 7 details the acquisition costs we included in this study.
1
Source: http://swz.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Systems-Administrator-Salary-
Details.aspx?hdcbxbonuse=off&isshowpiechart=true&isshowjobchart=false&isshowsalarydetailcharts=false&isshownextsteps=false
&isshowcompanyfct=false&isshowaboutyou=false
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Dell VRTX Unit Cost per unit
Quantity
description
Quantity Total cost
Hardware
Dell PowerEdge VRTX platform Platform $22,710.00
Number VRTX
platforms
1 $22,710.00
Software
Windows Server 2012
Datacenter Edition (processor
licenses)
2 processors $4,810.00
Number dual-
processor
servers
2 $9,620.00
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Standard
1 server license per VM $898.00 Number VMS 10 $8,980.00
VMware vSphere 5 Standard 1 per processor $995.00
Number
processors
4 $3,980.00
Setup Cost per hour $50.00 Number hours 16 $800.00
Total acquisition costs $46,090.00
Figure 7: Acquisition costs for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX.
Hardware costs
See Appendix A for system information for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX hardware we tested. Dell supplied the
hardware price.
Software costs
We used the Microsoft License Advisor2 and selected Corporate Open No Level pricing for a Microsoft Windows
Server 2012 Datacenter Edition licensed for each processor and a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition license for
each VM. We used prices on the VMware site for VMWare vSphere Standard licensed per processor.3
Setup costs
We estimated 16 hours of staff time to unbox and setup the Dell PowerEdge VRTX hardware and to install the
software on it. We do not include time to update the software to the latest edition or to migrate files and databases to
it. Those are tasks that you would also need to do on either the cloud or Dell PowerEdge VRTX solutions. We omit those
non platform-specific tasks from this analysis.
Annual costs
Annual costs include mission critical support for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX platform, Microsoft Software
Assurance for the Microsoft Software and VMware Support and Subscription costs for the VMware software, staff time
to maintain the hardware and support the VMs, and energy costs for powering and cooling the platform. Figure 8 details
the annual costs of the Dell PowerEdge VRTX.
2
http://mla.microsoft.com/default.aspx
3
http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/pricing.html
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Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. a leading public cloud service
Annual costs Unit Cost per unit
Quantity
description
Quantity Total cost
Hardware and software support
Hardware support Chassis $1,300.00 Number chassis 1 $1,300.00
Windows Server 2012
Datacenter Edition Software
Assurance
2 processors $1,202.50
Number dual-
processor
servers
2 $2,405.00
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Standard Software Assurance
1 server license per VM $224.50 Number VMS 12 $2,694.00
VMware vSphere 5 Standard
Basic Support and Subscription
1 per processor $273.00
Number
processors
4 $1,092.00
Energy for power and cooling Chassis $937.54 Number chassis 1 $937.54
Hardware management Cost per hour $50.00
Number hours
per year
12 $600.00
VMware management Cost per hour $50.00
Number hours
per year
24 $1,200.00
Total annual costs $10,228.54
Average cost per month of the annual costs $852.38
Figure 8: Annual costs for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX.
Software support
We estimated Microsoft Software Assurance costs at 25 percent per year for the Microsoft server software. We
used VMware prices for one-year Basic support for the VMware software.4
Hardware support
We assume that the organization purchases annually Dell’s Mission Critical 4-hour 24/7 support for the VRTX at
$1,300/year (see Figure 9). Dell supplied annual cost for mission-critical support for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution
that we tested. There are no hardware support costs for the leading public cloud service.
Annual cost Total after 5 years
Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution: Mission Critical 24/7 support with 4-hour
response time
$1,300.00 $6,500.00
Figure 9: Hardware support costs for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution.
Power
Figure 10 shows the calculations for the annual energy cost estimates. The leading public cloud service does not
explicitly charge for power, so we considered estimates of only the VRTX’s power requirements and costs. The cost per
kWh is taken from the average dollars per kilowatt-hour for the commercial sector in March 2013 as reported by the US
Energy Information Administration.5
The annual kWh was calculated using 8,766 as the average number of hours in a
year, so we are assuming constantly powered-on hardware.
4
http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/pricing.html
5
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_06_a
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Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. a leading public cloud service
Dell PowerEdge VRTX
Cost per kWh $0.0999
Typical watts (W) 535.3
Annual kWh 4692.44
Multiplier for cooling 2
Total kWh for power and cooling 9384.88
Annual energy cost for power and cooling $937.54
Figure 10: Energy cost estimates for the PowerEdge VRTX solution.
Systems management
With mission-critical Dell support for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution, our hypothetical SMB should be able to
keep in-house costs for hardware maintenance low. We include costs for one hour a month hardware management and
two hours a month VMware management for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution. Assuming 40 hours per week and 52
weeks per year, we found that the hourly cost for these tasks would be approximately $50. This leads to an annual cost
of $600 per year for hardware maintenance and $1,2000 per year for VMware vSphere maintenance, or $1,800 total per
year on systems management.
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