The PowerEdge™ R810 rack server — with the latest Intel® Xeon® 6500 and 7500 Series family of processors and up to 512 GB of RAM — is an ideal candidate for data center consolidation and power and cooling reduction, while maintaining high levels of productivity and performance.
Virtualization enables operating systems and applications to be decoupled from physical hardware. With its computing power and high-memory capacity, the PowerEdge R810 provides a platform where multiple virtual machines can operate in parallel. Dell™ EqualLogic™ Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) provides another layer of virtualization at the storage layer that enables ease of administration, performance and scalability.
This white paper describes the reference architecture that designs and implements a virtual infrastructure running Microsoft® SQL Server® database workloads. A series of evaluation and performance tests were executed to determine the performance the PowerEdge R810 can deliver in a virtual database environment. The tests compared the overall performance improvement against the previous server generation, as well as the added capacity.