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As server technology evolves, new capabilities emerge to optimize workload performance to meet the differing needs of customers. Some customers require maximum performance. Others require minimal latency, while others want optimized performance/watt. These optimizations often require fundamental differences in BIOS configuration.
To complicate the challenges for IT administrators, optimized settings change over time and can differ between server models and generations. Engineers at Dell Technologies have worked to dramatically simplify the process of BIOS tuning with the availability of “workload profile” based server configuration automation.
Workload profile based optimization significantly reduces the time required to achieve optimized workload tuning, while ensuring consistency across server models, generations, and feature enhancements. Dell PowerEdge servers streamline the deployment process and increase customers’ agility by allowing for the rapid deployment, or redeployment, of their server assets.
Note: For 14th and 15th generation PowerEdge servers, see the papers specific to each generation. BIOS settings are different between generations.