Dell is optimizing for virtualization across the entire portfolio — not just on blades — to meet your density, flexibility and performance needs without locking you into proprietary infrastructures. Dell™ PowerEdge™ holds top VMmark® performance scores for 2-socket rack, 2-socket blades and 4-socket rack servers.
Testing by Principled Technologies shows how moving 32-bit servers to virtual machines on a 64-bit Dell server offers cost, performance and space advantages while lowering the risks of migration to 64-bit.
Dell engineers tested the performance of Microsoft SQL Server when scaling virtual resources on a Dell PowerEdge server and when migrating virtual machines between physical hosts.
Read this article for guidance on building a virtualized infrastructure with EqualLogic PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays and VMware virtualization software.
Comparing the performance of the PowerEdge 2950 using two different quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors show that the Intel Xeon E5300 family of processors can approach the performance of the X5300 series of processors while realizing a power savings of approximately 15%.
Dell engineers tested two Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2950 servers with dual-core Intel® Xeon® 5160 and quad-core Intel Xeon X5355 processors alongside a previous-generation PowerEdge 2850 server with dualcore Intel Xeon processors in a virtualized environment based on VMware® Virtual Infrastructure 3.
Several Dell™ PowerEdge™ server models can be equipped with dual-core Intel® Xeon® processors. Dell engineers tested the Dell PowerEdge 2850 server with both single-core and dual-core processors, and the results showed a 28 to 51 percent performance gain when moving from single-core to dual-core processors.
The open source LAMP application stack—which consists of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP—is a commonly used, reliable platform for Web servers and provides Web services.
Dell engineers tested VMware® ESX Server™ software on Dell PowerEdge 2850 and PowerEdge 6850 servers to show how ESX Server can manage multiple workloads.
