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The PowerEdge servers come with the Dell Controlled Turbo feature which controls the turbo engagement of the CPUs. This feature can increase performance in both single-threaded and multithreaded applications.
Category | PowerEdge |
Product | PowerEdge R750xs |
Type of best practice | Performance Optimization |
Day and value | Day 3, Fine Tuning |
Overview
The Dell Controlled Turbo setting allows the CPUs to run at maximum speed. This option only works if the system profile is set to performance in the BIOS. In this best practice, we enabled the Dell Controlled Turbo with the Database Optimization Performance profile.
Recommendation
After enabling the Dell Controlled Turbo option, the following test metrics gained a slight increase in performance and considered as a Day 3, Fine Tuning best practice.
New Order per Minute (NOPM)
Transactions per Minute (TPM)
PowerStore IOPS
Server CPU utilization
Implementation steps
To enable Dell Controlled Turbo, log in to iDRAC and do the following:
Additional resources
Enable Dell Controlled Turbo on 15th Generation (15G) Dell PowerEdge Server