VIRTUALIZED DATABASE PERFORMANCE COMPARISON: DELL POWEREDGE R815 VS. IBM SYSTEM X3850 X5
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.1
1Based 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.
AUGUST 2010
A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT
Commissioned by Dell Inc.
