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VIRTUALIZED DATABASE PERFORMANCE
COMPARISON: DELL POWEREDGE R815 VS. IBM
SYSTEM X3850 X5
AUGUST 2010
A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT
Commissioned by Dell Inc.
OUR FINDINGS
Multi-socket servers using multi-core processors coupled with
the latest virtualization technologies enable companies to
consolidate large numbers of production database servers
onto a small number of systems. In Principled Technologies’
tests in our labs, a Dell PowerEdge R815 server with AMD
Opteron processors Model 6174 demonstrated better
virtualized database price-performance than an IBM System
x3850 X5 server with Intel Xeon Processor X7560s with a
lower price, better performance, and lower power.
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Based on DVD Store Version 2 testing conducted by Principled
Technologies, Inc., and reported in “Virtualized database performance
comparison: Dell PowerEdge R815 vs. IBM System x3850 X5,” comparing Dell
PowerEdge R815 server with AMD Opteron processors Model 6174 (12 cores
per processor package) and IBM System x3850 X5 server with Intel Xeon
Processor X7560s (8 cores per processor package), an August, 2010 report
commissioned by Dell Inc. For details, see
http://principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/Dell/PowerEdge_R815_vs
_IBM_virt_database_0810.pdf.
OUR PROCESS
We used the open-source DVD Store Version 2 benchmark to
provide a workload representative of many real-world
database applications. With it, we measured the performance
and power of the two servers, each of which was running
Microsoft
®
Windows Server
®
2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with
Microsoft SQL Server
®
2008 R2. Each server ran 48 virtual
machines (VMs) using Hyper-V™. We measured the
performance and energy consumption of both servers, then
used the list prices of the systems to develop a price-
performance metric.