DELL DL385 Manual De Usuario

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Each Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with 
VMware® ESX™ can replace seven HP 
ProLiant DL385 solutions, and could 
yield a payback in under 18 months. 
(See Figure 1.) 

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The Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with 
VMware ESX delivered seven virtual 
servers, each of which yielded 
performance equivalent to or better than 
the performance of one physical HP 
ProLiant DL385 solution

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(See Figure 4.) 

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The Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with 
VMware ESX used little more than 1/5th 
of the power, about 4/5 of the software 
costs, and 1/7th of the data center rack 
space of the seven HP ProLiant DL385 
solutions. (See Figures 3 and 7.) 

Dell Inc. (Dell) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) 
to estimate how many months it would take to recapture 
initial investment costs when consolidating multiple 4-year-
old HP ProLiant DL385 server and storage solutions onto a 
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 server and storage solution using 
VMware ESX. In this report, we estimate both the number of 
older solutions each Dell PowerEdge R710 solution can 
replace and the payback period for replacing those older 
solutions. We compare the following two solutions: 

 

•  Intel® Xeon® Processor X5550-based Dell 

PowerEdge R710 server with 96 GB of memory 
using VMware ESX and Dell™ EqualLogic™  
PS6000XV storage (Dell PowerEdge R710 solution) 

•  AMD Opteron 254-based HP ProLiant DL385 G1 

server with 4 GB of memory and HP StorageWorks 
MSA30 storage (HP ProLiant DL385 solution) 

 
 

Our test case modeled a typical enterprise datacenter with multiple legacy HP ProLiant DL385 solutions running 
high-demand database workloads. The legacy servers each used 4 GB of memory. The enterprise in this test 
case seeks to consolidate several of these legacy workloads onto Dell PowerEdge R710 solutions using VMware 
ESX and configured with sufficient processors, memory, and storage to handle these workloads.  
 
We used benchmark results from the Dell DVD Store Version 2.0 (DS2) performance benchmark to determine the 
number of older servers with accompanying storage that a Dell PowerEdge R710 solution could replace. To 
define the replacement factor, we measured the number of orders per minute (OPM) that the HP ProLiant DL385 
solution could perform when running a demanding DS2 workload. We then ran DS2 in virtual machines (VMs) on 
the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution and measured how many VMs this newer solution could run, while obtaining