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Newer hardware and software can help organizations unlock performance benefits in their data center environment. In the case of Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 servers with VMware vSphere 7.0, features such as 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors could increase performance on transactional database workloads, while admins can use VMware vCenter integrations like Dell EMC OMIVV to manage Dell EMC server hardware (including firmware updates in tandem with vSphere Lifecycle Manager11). In hands-on testing, we ran the DVD Store 3 benchmark on the newer Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 solution and an older Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 server with VMware vSphere 6.7. The Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 handled 30 percent more operations per minute than the older server, indicating that organizations using the newer solution could support more online users and potentially boost revenue.
11 Nigel Hickey, “vSphere 7 – Content Library,” accessed October 30, 2020, https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/04/vsphere-7-content-library.html..
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