A Principled Technologies test report 4
Virtualized database performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge
R815 vs. IBM System x3850 X5
WHAT WE FOUND
As Figure 3 shows, in a
virtualized environment, the Dell
PowerEdge R815 server achieved
a DVD Store Version 2 score of
418,103 Orders Per Minute, a 1.7
percent increase over the IBM
System x3850 X5 server, which
achieved a score of 411,224
Orders Per Minute.
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Figure 4 shows the OPM
results, by VM, for the Dell
PowerEdge R815 server and for the IBM System x3850 X5 server. The Dell PowerEdge R815 server results
show that 48 virtual machines on the Dell PowerEdge R815 server achieved a higher DVD Store Version 2
average orders-per-minute score than 48 virtual machines on the IBM System x3850 X5 server.
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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.
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Figure 3: DVD Store Version 2 performance results, in OPM, for the test servers in a
virtualized environment. Higher numbers are better.
