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Your company might rely on online transaction processing (OLTP) for retail sales, order entry, customer relationship management, or another type of activity. Business is booming, and along with growth comes increased demand on the servers that run your essential operations.
You want new gear that can support your applications well today and into the future, when demand will hopefully be even greater. This makes it wise to choose a server solution that delivers a higher transaction rate.
We tested the next-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge MX750c against the current- generation Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c in a VMware Cloud Foundation™ environment, using workload clusters. We used the DVD Store 3 benchmark to measure OLTP performance and application response time of two clusters:
Because we configured the current-generation servers in a manner typical of the time of their release, the next-generation servers include faster processors, increased RAM and DIMM capacity, and two additional memory channels per socket with eight DDR4 channels. Also, while both configurations used PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs for storage, only the Intel chipset in the next-generation servers works at that speed, which is twice as fast as the 32Gb/s maximum of PCIe 3.0. We found that the new cluster not only delivered more orders per minute per
VM and more total OPM, but it also improved application response time. (For complete details of our test systems and approach, see the science behind this report.)