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Our hands-on testing measured the virtualized OLTP performance of the following Hyper-V cluster ter configurations backed by Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct:
Both clusters ran Hyper-V with Failover Clustering and Storage Spaces Direct. Each cluster hosted 24 Microsoft SQL Server 2019 VMs (eight VMs per host), against which we ran the OLTP workload. We configured each cluster with 256 GB of RAM, two-port 25Gb NICs, and six NVMe™ SSDs. Details of the server configurations and our testing are available in the science behind the report.
These 32-core processors use AMD Infinity Architecture and are part of the AMD EPYC 7003 Series. The latest offering from AMD, 3rd Gen EPYC processors offer increased I/O with up to 32MB L3 cache per core, 7nm x86 hybrid die core, and new security features such as Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) and Encrypted State (SEV- ES).3 According to AMD, the EPYC 7543 model is well suited for workloads such as analytics, ERM/SCM/CRM apps, and apps requiring high VM density.4
Learn more at https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-7003-series.
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2 “PowerEdge R6525 Rack Server.”
3 “AMD EPYC 7003 Series Processors,” accessed March 18, 2021, https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-7003-series.
4 “AMD EPYC 7543,” accessed March 18, 2021, https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-7543.