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Moving from a legacy environment can drive the number of customers you support to new heights
A successful online business requires powerful data center hardware that handles large numbers of orders and lets customers make their purchases without delay. Upgrading your aging servers can empower your business to handle significant growth.
In the Principled Technologies data center, we ran an e-commerce workload on a two-server VMware® vSAN™ cluster of Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ R740xd servers powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Compared to previous tests running the same workload on 1) a pair of seven-year-old Dell PowerEdge R720 servers with a SAN storage array (legacy server environment) and 2) a previous- generation vSAN cluster of Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers with 1st Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (previous generation solution) the new servers with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors offered a dramatic performance boost that makes a compelling argument for a server upgrade.
In fact, the new cluster powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors did the work of over 11 legacy server clusters, showing that improving hardware efficiency is possible when you upgrade your servers to the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd.