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Our results show the advantage in performance, cost, and workload consolidation that modern hardware, OSs,

hypervisors, and database software can offer over legacy hardware and software solutions for this workload.

Test results

Microsoft SQL Server workload results

Server and storage solution

Figure 4: Number of virtual machines for the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution and HP ProLiant

DL385 solution. Higher numbers are better.

StorageWorks MSA30 storage solution while running the DVD Store tests. Results are from the test run that

produced the median of three OPM results. Lower CPU percentage and higher OPM numbers are better.

We tested the legacy system with a single database instance running a 10 GB DS2 database, which alone nearly

fully utilized the system's CPU; additional instances yielded unacceptable results. To achieve maximum DS2

results on the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution, we installed one instance of SQL Server 2008 on each of seven

VMs and ran one 10GB DS2 database on each. We show the number of OPM each solution achieved during our

measurement period, minutes 24 through 29 of the test. We calculated the scores by averaging the OPM for each

SQL instance during that period. For the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution, we show the OPM results for the lowest

performing of the seven VMs. Each of the seven VMs on the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution delivered

performance equivalent to or better than the performance of the HP ProLiant DL385.

HP ProLiant DL385 solution

Dell PowerEdge R710 solution

Figure 5: Minimum per database OPM performance results per server or virtual server for the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution and the

HP ProLiant DL385 solution while running the DVD Store workload. Higher OPM numbers are better.

Figure 6 shows the specific performance results, in both individual VM OPM scores and minimum OPM scores,

for the Dell PowerEdge R710 server with the Dell EqualLogic PS6000 storage array. Higher numbers are better.

Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analysis: Dell PowerEdge R710

solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution

Higher results are better

Minimum OPM

HP ProLiant DL385 with

HP StorageWorks MSA30

Dell PowerEdge R710 with

Dell EqualLogic PS6000

Performance

Run 1

Minimum OPM

15,864.5

16,029.3

Figure 4 illustrates the

number of virtual machines

the Dell PowerEdge R710

solution can sustain

compared to the HP

ProLiant DL385 solution.

The Dell PowerEdge R710

solution delivered seven

virtual servers that each

produced higher OPM

results than the single

physical HP ProLiant DL385

solution.

Figure 5 shows the specific

performance results, in both

OPM and CPU percentage,

for the Dell PowerEdge

R710 server with the Dell

EqualLogic PS6000 storage

solution and the HP ProLiant

DL385 server with the HP

Run 2

14,466.8

15,360.9

Run 3

Minimum OPM

15,849.3

15,036.6