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Dell POWEREDGE DL385 manual

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    Initial investment payback analysis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution TEST REPORT MAY 2009 KEY FINDINGS z Each Dell PowerEdge R71 0 solution with VMware® ESX™ can replace seven HP ProLiant DL385 solutions, and could yield a payback in under 18 months. (See Figure 1.) z The Dell PowerEdge R710 solution w[...]

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    2 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution OPM in each VM equivalent to that of the HP ProLi ant DL385 solution. The total number of VMs the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution could handle determin es the repl acement factor. Based on our spe cific wor[...]

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    3 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution S ev en HP P ro Li ant D L385 s o l ut io ns De l l Pow e r Edge R 7 1 0 so lu tion w ith VMw a r e ESX S erv er and s t o rag e hard ware $0 $43, 652 So f t w ar e li ce n se s $0 $2, 993 M i g rat io n[...]

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    4 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Four benefits of the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution contribut e significantly to the co st savings for this solution: • Replaces up to seven HP ProLiant DL 385 servers with HP StorageWorks MSA30 storag e[...]

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    5 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution The DS2 driver application creates an orders-per-min ute performance counter on each clie nt machine. While the DVD Store client application visually out puts OPM at 10-second intervals, we ch ose to col[...]

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    6 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Our results show the advantage in performance, cost, and workload consolidatio n t hat modern hardware, OSs, hypervisors, and database software can offer over legacy hardware and software solutions for t[...]

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    7 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Dell PowerEdge R710 solution Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 VM 1 OPM 16,218.6 16,233.8 15,036.6 VM 2 OPM 17,261.6 17,146.0 16,496.1 VM 3 OPM 17,012.3 16,887.3 16,289.6 VM 4 OPM 17,335.5 17,040.7 16,471.6 VM 5 OPM 17,[...]

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    8 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution T est methodology Adjusting BIOS settings We used the default BIOS settings on the HP ProLian t DL385 server and enable d Virtualization Technology on the Dell PowerEdge R710 server. Setting up and confi[...]

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    9 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution management workstation, which was an Intel Pentium 4, 630 3.00GHz running Windows Server 2003 with 2GB RAM. Installing ESX Build 148592 1. Insert ESX Build 148592 DVD, and restart the computer. 2. While [...]

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    10 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 12. Click OK. Connecting the storage to the host We attached the database volumes on the Dell Equ alLogi c PS6000 storage to the Dell Powe rEdge R710 server by connecting all four NICs available on the [...]

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    11 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Creating the virtual machine with vSphere 1. Click Start, All Programs, VMware, VMware vSphere client. 2. Enter the IP address or hostname, user name, and pa ssword. Click Login. 3. Click the Virtual Ma[...]

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    12 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 31. Click OK to r estart, click C lose, and clic k Restart No w. Configuring networking in the VM 1. Power on the VM, and open the consol e. 2. Click Start, Control Panel, Network Connections, an d clic[...]

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    13 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution z Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edi tion (KB959130) z Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edi tion (KB957200) z Security Update for Windows Se rver 2008 x64 Edition (KB953733) z Security Update for [...]

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    14 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 22. On the Instance configuration screen, le ave the default selection of default instance, and click Next. 23. On the Disk space requir ements screen , click Next. 24. On the Server configuratio n scre[...]

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    15 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 6. Click OK. 7. Click the Targets tab. 8. Find the two relevant SQL Data volumes for this VM, and select it. Click Log On… 9. Check the checkbox to allow automati c logon on reboot, and to also enable[...]

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    16 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution We configured the internal drives in two RAID 1 volu mes, with two disks per volume. The MS A30 contained 14 146GB 10,000 RPM drives. We configured MSA30 in a RAID 10 array for all 14 drives, resulting [...]

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    17 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Installing system updates in Windo ws Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition • Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB96 1118) • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and . N ET Framework 3.5 Family Upd[...]

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    18 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution • Security Update for Windows Se rver 2003 (KB930178) Connecting the storage to the host We attached the database volume on the MSA30 storage to the HP ProLiant DL385 server by using a SCSI cabl e con[...]

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    19 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 18. Accept the default Error an d Usage Report Settings, and click Nex t. 19. At the Ready to Install screen, c lick Install to begin the installation. 20. At the end of the installation in the Setup Pr[...]

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    20 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Editing the ds2_create_cust.c modul e We had to make the same change s to the ds2_create_c ust.c module that we made to the ds2_create _orders.c module. On the command line for the ds2_create _cust.c mo[...]

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    21 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 8. We set the database recovery model back to full. We made the following change s in the build scripts: • Because we varied the size of the datasets, we si zed the files in our scripts to refl ect th[...]

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    22 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 3. Run the batch file C:Program FilesMicrosoft Vi sual Studio 9.0Common7Toolsvsvars32.bat . This sets up the environment variables for us. 4. Execute the following command: csc /out:ds2sqlserverdri[...]

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    23 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Appendix A – T est server information Figure 8 presents detailed informatio n for t he test servers we used in this rep ort. Servers Dell PowerEdge R710 HP ProLiant DL385 G1 General dimension informat[...]

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    24 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Servers Dell PowerEdge R710 HP ProLiant DL385 G1 Type PC3-8500 DDR3 PC-3200 DDR Speed (MHz) 1,066 400 Speed in the system currently running @ (MHz) 800 400 Timing/latency (tCL-tRCD-iRP- tRASmin) 6-6-6-1[...]

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    25 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Appendix B – T est storage information Figure 9 presents detailed informatio n for t he test storage we used in this report. Enclosure Dell EqualLogic PS6000X V HP StorageWorks MSA30 General dimension[...]

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    26 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Appendix C – Payback period calculation In calculating the estimated payback period, we a ssume that investment costs occur at the beginning of the year and we spread annual cost s evenly throughout t[...]

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    27 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution • The enterprise would typically sele ct a 3-year su pport package with 7-day, 24-ho ur coverage, and 4-hour response time for newer hardwa re, and would take ov er support internally after t hose agr[...]

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    28 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution About Principled T echnologies We provide industry-leadin g technology assessment and fact-ba sed marketing services. We bring to every assignment extensive experien ce with and expertise in all aspects[...]