Dell POWEREDGE R720 - Manual (Page 8)

Consolidating Legacy OLTP Application Servers with the Dell 12 th Generation PowerEdge R720
Server
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The R720 at 26% utilization is able to handle the OLTP workload of 10 Legacy PowerEdge 2950
Servers, a
10:1 Consolidation at 26% Utilization.
The R720 paired with two PowerVault MD1220(s) can do 60% more IOPs than the legacy
PowerEdge 2950 / 2x PowerVault MD1120 solution.
Figure 6. Consolidation Scenario
Conclusion
A consolidation project is not a simple task. The customer needs careful planning to predict the
performance capacity requirements of the new platform. The focus of this white paper is to
encourage organizations to consolidate legacy database environments on Dell’s PowerEdge 12G
servers. Based on the results, we can conclude that a 12
th Generation PowerEdge R720 server
populated with two eight-core CPUs would be able to consolidate the workload of a ten-node
legacy environment, provided that the system is not constrained by the storage subsystem,
network bandwidth, or memory resources. Customers running Microsoft SQL environments on
legacy servers and storage can follow the guidelines and procedures outlined here to
consolidate or upgrade their existing solution into fewer, faster, and more energy efficient
solutions.