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We used the DVD Store 3 (DS3) benchmarking tool to run an OLTP workload against each cluster. We summed the OPM that each of the 24 SQL Server VMs processed over the course of a 30-minute test run, and we show that per-cluster sum in Figure 1. The AMD EPYC 7543 processor-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge 6525 cluster came out on top with a rate of 264,551 OPM—an increase of 15.6 percent over the cluster with the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC 7532 processors, which performed at a rate of 228,678 OPM.
These results indicate that by investing in the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7543 processor-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge 6525 cluster rather than the cluster with the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors we tested, an organization could achieve better OLTP performance.
According to Dell Technologies, these servers have the following specifications:5
Learn more at https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/povw/poweredge-R6525.
According to Microsoft, the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server “builds on previous releases to grow SQL Server as a platform that gives you choices of development languages, data types, on-premises or cloud environments, and operating systems.“6 It includes features in the following areas: data virtualization and SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, Intelligent Query Processing, In-Memory Database technologies, monitoring, developer experience, security, high availability, platform choice, and more.
Learn more about Microsoft SQL Server 2019 at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2019.
5 “PowerEdge R6525,” accessed March 25, 2021, https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Product_Docs/en/poweredge-r6525-spec-sheet.pdf.
6 “What’s new in SQL Server 2019 (15.x),” accessed March 24, 2021, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/what-s-new-in-sql-server-ver15?view=sql-server-ver15.