Dell Performance Analysis Collection Kit (DPACK)

In an effort to help guide you through mission-critical IT decisions, Dell's team of solution experts has developed an innovative new tool — the Dell™ Performance Analysis Collection Kit (DPACK). This complimentary tool will help you make the most impactful decisions for your business, whether it's reducing wasteful spending or analyzing opportunities for virtualization or data center expansion.

Through a simply run program, DPACK performs a host-level assessment of your infrastructure, including servers, storage and workloads. You see peak I/O (input/output) levels, as well as server utilization rates to ensure your solution will successfully address the key pain points in your specific environment.

Understand your environment

DPACK runs remotely and agentless to gather core requirements, including:

• Disk I/O
• Throughput
• Capacity and memory utilization
• Server workload and capacity requirements

With this tangible data, DPACK generates two kinds of reports:

1. An aggregation of resource needs across disparate servers with a simulation of those workloads if consolidated to shared resources
2. An in-depth individual server report to be used by IT administrators to search for potential bottlenecks or hotspots that need to be engineered out of a new design

As your total solution partner, a Dell Solutions Architect will provide you with these detailed reports and the resulting accumulated metrics, and what they mean for your business. Dell will work with you every step of the way to help you look for opportunities to optimize your data center and plan for upcoming critical projects.

For an in-depth view of how the complimentary DPACK tool can help scope and size workloads, download the Analyze Before You Virtualize article here.

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