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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
Like many small- or medium-sized businesses (SMBs), you’ve probably recently made critical business decisions to stay competitive. Maybe you implemented a remote work policy, expanded to new markets, or moved more of your business online. You may have also paused technology upgrades just to stay above water. But as some pandemic restrictions ease and your business continues to adapt to this altered landscape, it may be time to refresh your hardware to better support employees working remotely, handle more ecommerce orders, enable modern app infrastructure, and utilize the latest hardware and software security features.
To understand the differences between legacy servers similar to what you may use today and a newer AMD EPYC™ processor-powered solution, we tested two four-node VMware® vSphere® with vSAN™ clusters with a combined workload of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, which might mirror the daily work your servers perform. Compared to the legacy solution, comprising dual-socket Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ R630 servers, the newer solution, comprising single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 servers powered by AMD EPYC 7543P processors, improved VDI and OLTP performance. And when we utilized the PowerEdge R6515 solution’s available resources and vSphere 7.0.2 features to run a third workload—a containerized multi-tier web app on Kubernetes with Tanzu—it continued to outperform the PowerEdge R630 servers on the VDI and OLTP workloads. Finally, according to our estimates, the PowerEdge R6515 solution could cut down on software licensing costs.
*for software we used in our testing; see page 9 for more information
†vs. the Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 cluster while both ran the mixed OLTP and VDI workload