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Efficiency is key to success in business, and it’s also true of your data center. By holding onto older servers and external arrays, your organization isn’t taking full advantage of the space you have, and you may not be giving your customers the snappiest experience.
As our results with a real-world e-commerce workload show, a VMware vSAN cluster comprising two 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers dramatically outperformed a legacy solution from just two generations ago, the 12th Generation of Dell PowerEdge R720 servers with SAN array. The new R740xd cluster delivered 11.4 times the orders per minute (OPM) of that legacy environment. Plus, the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd cluster with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors delivered 1.3 times the OPM of the R740xd cluster with 1st Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
While we conducted testing for the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd in May 2019, we tested the Dell EMC PowerEdge R720 cluster and the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd with 1st Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors in July 2017. We used the same methodology to ensure a fair comparison, simulating a true upgrade by using software versions appropriate to the time for both legacy and new solutions. To see the original report, visit https://www.principledtechnologies.com/Dell/PowerEdge_R740xd_comparative_0318_v2.pdf.