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.
By moving to a virtual-ready infrastructure, IT has the opportunity to fundamentally change the way the data center works now and in the future. In doing so, IT has the opportunity to transform its own value to the organization.
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.
