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In today’s highly competitive environment, businesses expect more from their infrastructure. For IT decision makers facing these challenges, the question is often whether to stretch more life out of existing hardware or to expend capital dollars today in return for levels of performance, utilization, and consolidation that help the business in the short term and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) in the long term.
Newer Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ C6520 servers include several significant upgrades ranging from compute to memory to storage, compared to older-generation servers. But are those upgrades enough to warrant a server refresh?
Beyond being able to run more virtual machines (VMs) per server cluster, testing conducted by Prowess Consulting uncovered that virtualized instances of Microsoft® SQL Server® databases running on latest-generation PowerEdge C6520 servers with KIOXIA enterprise Serial Attached SCSI® solid-state drive (SSD) storage also enjoyed significant performance and efficiency advantages over SQL Server VMs running on older PowerEdge C6420 servers.
1 Based on head-to-head comparisons of a Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ C6520 server versus a PowerEdge C6420 server.