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Replacing older servers can help you deliver a better customer experience and generate more revenue
As your organization grows, the performance of servers in your data center may not be able to keep up and can even degrade. What the servers in your software-defined storage VMware vSAN™ solution needed to handle after their purchase might not be what they need to handle today or next year. For transactional database workloads in vSAN, diminished ability to meet increasing demand can create obstacles in delivering reliable service quality for users.
Replacing older servers in a vSAN cluster can significantly improve the performance of transactional database workloads they support. This can mean a better user experience, a greater likelihood of meeting service quality demand and workload growth, and ultimately more revenue to help your bottom line.
When running online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads in our data center, a vSAN cluster of current-generation Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ R640 servers powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon™ Scalable processors drastically outperformed vSAN clusters of previous-generation PowerEdge R630 servers and legacy PowerEdge R620 servers. In addition, the new PowerEdge R640 solution handled the larger workload in the same amount of space, which means it can help you combat data center sprawl.