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When companies are shopping for new data center hardware, price and performance are both important. Determining the value of a server requires understanding how well it can run your critical workloads, as well as its upfront and ongoing costs.
Principled Technologies conducted hands-on transactional database testing of two VMware vSAN™ clusters: one with three single-socket Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ R7515 servers powered by AMD EPYC™ 7502P processors and one with three dual-socket HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers powered by Intel® Xeon® Gold 6240 processors. As a baseline, we tested a vSAN cluster with three five-year-old legacy servers. For the current-generation clusters, we also calculated hardware and four-year software costs, which were $268,957.71 lower for the Dell EMC cluster.
Both current-generation vSAN clusters outperformed the legacy cluster, with the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 cluster delivering 93.4 percent of the database orders per minute (OPM) that the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 cluster achieved, despite having half the number of physical processors and four fewer cores per server. When we combined performance results with hardware and software costs, the single-socket Dell EMC cluster delivered a 9.6 percent better cost/performance ratio than the dual-socket HPE cluster did.