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If you’re shopping for affordable virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to empower your organization’s remote and mobile workforce, the Dell EMC PowerEdge R650xs may fit the bill. This new PowerEdge XS server is equipped with 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, support for PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen 4, and the latest memory, networking, storage, and security technologies. Plus, our hands-on testing uncovered some compelling VDI performance benefits you could capitalize on by investing in Dell EMC PowerEdge R650xs servers.
In the Principled Technologies data center, we used the VMware® View® Planner 4.6 benchmark tool to determine the maximum number of virtual desktop users a dual-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R650xs server powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Gold 6330 processors with 28 cores per socket could support compared to a dual-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 server powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Gold 6230 processors with 20 cores per socket. Then we measured power efficiency. We found that the Dell EMC PowerEdge R650xs server configuration we tested supported significantly more virtual desktop users and consumed fewer watts per VDI session versus the Dell EMC PowerEdge R640. Read on to get the whole story.