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Dell OME 4.1 Release - Don't Just Manage, Automate!

I recently heard a humorous definition of a programmer – it’s someone that turns coffee into code. In that case, the OpenManage development team has been consuming buckets of coffee recently, given that they have just released OpenManage Enterprise 4.1 with support for all the seven plugins and, as usual, ...

Dell Technologies Shines in MLPerf™ Stable Diffusion Results

Abstract The recent release of MLPerf Training v3.1 results includes the newly launched Stable Diffusion benchmark. At the time of publication, Dell Technologies leads the OEM market in this performance benchmark for training a Generative AI foundation model, especially for the Stable Diffusion model. With the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 server ...

Reduce hands-on deployment times to near zero with iDRAC9 automation

This Document describes how iDRAC9 v6.10 offers automated OS deployment alongside the Zero-Touch provisioning feature.

The Science Behind the Report: Dell CloudIQ Provides a Single Console for Proactive Monitoring

Integrated management solutions that enable administrators to monitor environments from the cloud can save IT teams time and reduce the chance that they’ll miss key health or performance issues. It’s important to assess the amount of bandwidth CloudIQ uses.

Dell and AMD Integrated Cyber Security Protection

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Dell PowerEdge R470 Achieves up to 102% Performance Improvement with Intel® 6th Gen P-Core CPUs

Overview The Dell PowerEdge R470 is a powerful, single-socket rack server designed to deliver high performance while maintaining exceptional energy efficiency. Its advanced design drives cost savings and improves data center productivity. With more cores in a single socket, the R470 delivers superior performance in a compact footprint, all while ...

Inference Results Comparison of Dell Technologies Submissions for MLPerf™ v1.0 and MLPerf™ v1.1

Abstract The Dell Technologies HPC & AI Innovation Lab recently submitted results to the MLPerf Inference v1.1 benchmark suite. These results provide our customers with transparent information about the performance of Dell EMC servers. This blog highlights the enhancements between the MLPerf ™ Inference v1.0 and MLPerf Inference v1.1 submissions ...

Boost data center staff productivity with OpenManage Enterprise

This Principled Technologies white paper presents time-and-effort measurements of key capabilities of the OpenManage Enterprise systems management console, to help IT admins free up time and reduce the potential for error and downtime.

Dell PowerEdge XR8000’s first MLPerf® Inference v4.0 Results – Power-efficient Edge AI Applications

Artificial intelligence is swiftly becoming an essential component of the telecommunications industry. As such, it has become increasingly important to demonstrate the telecom servers’ capability to excel in AI inference tasks—with not just high performance but also efficient power usage. Recognizing this, the latest MLPerf ® Inference v4.0 benchmarks have ...

Executive Summary: Dell PowerEdge XE9680 H200 Cluster with Dell 400GbE Networking

This paper offers a concise executive-level overview of the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 H200 Cluster with Dell 400GbE Networking whitepaper.

Unleash SLM Performance: Evaluating SLMs with AMD EPYC 5th Gen Processors on Dell PowerEdge Servers

| The Impact of SLMs Small Language Models (SLMs) are reshaping the enterprise AI landscape by challenging the "bigger is better" paradigm. With just 1-3 billion parameters, these efficient models deliver comparable task-specific performance to their larger counterparts when trained or fine-tuned on quality data. AMD EPYC processors emerge as ...

iDRAC10 Real-Time Telemetry in Action: Streaming Server, GPU, and OS Metrics to External Tools

This technical paper outlines Dell iDRAC’s support for Redfish Telemetry, including deployment examples for streaming server telemetry, operating system statistics, and GPU data.

Dell PowerEdge Servers deliver excellent performance with MLCommons™ Inference 3.1

Today, MLCommons released the latest version (v3.1) of MLPerf Inference results . Dell Technologies has made submissions to the inference benchmark since its version 0.5 launch in 2019. We continue to demonstrate outstanding results across different models in the benchmark such as image classification, object detection, natural language processing, speech ...

Enhancing Performance and Value: The Dell PowerEdge R770 CSP Edition Meets Customer Demands

Executive Summary The Dell PowerEdge R770 CSP Edition empowers cloud service providers to efficiently scale their services in high-density scale-out workloads leveraging built-in optimization to reduce energy costs while preserving top-notch performance. With Intel® Xeon® 6 E-core Processors and Dell Smart Cooling Technology onboard, the Dell PowerEdge R770 CSP Edition ...

Analyze more data, faster, by upgrading to latest-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 servers

This paper describes two test cases using latest-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 servers, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and featuring a Dell PERC H755N front NVMe RAID controller.

Supercharge Inference Performance at the Edge using the Dell EMC PowerEdge XE2420 (June 2021 revision)

Deployment of compute at the Edge enables the real-time insights that inform competitive decision making. Application data is increasingly coming from outside the core data center (“the Edge”) and harnessing all that information requires compute capabilities outside the core data center. It is estimated that 75% of enterprise-generated data will ...

Design Guide—VMware vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for High-Performance Database Applications

This guide describes the architecture and configuration of a converged infrastructure for VMware vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, XtremIO X2 storage, S-Series switches, and Data Domain protection.

PowerEdge Components Videos

The case for upgrading your servers to Dell PowerEdge R7625 servers powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors

Abstract: A Path to Virtualization at the Edge

Picking the right edge-computing option from the Dell™ PowerEdge™ XR family of servers. The Ever-Growing Importance of Edge Computing Data at the edge is rich with information. For the most actionable insights, especially with power-hungry workloads like data analytics and AI/ML, modern organizations capture and analyze data when and where ...

Improving Oracle Performance with New Dell 4 Socket Servers

Deploying Oracle on a PowerEdge Server presents various challenges, typical of intricate software and hardware integrations. As servers age, they become increasingly expensive to maintain and can have detrimental effects on business productivity. This is primarily due to the heightened demand for IT personnel's time and the heightened risk of ...

The Science: 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server with Broadcom NICs

Principled Technologies testing showed that a 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server featuring a Broadcom BCM57508-P2100G NIC delivered all three vs. previous-generation PowerEdge servers

GPU Support for the PowerEdge R360 & T360 Servers Raises the Bar for Emerging Use Cases

Summary As we enter the New Year, the market for AI solutions across numerous industries continues to grow. Specifically, UBS predicts a jump from $2.2 billion in 2022 to $255 billion in 2027 [1]. This growth is not limited to large enterprises; GPU support on the new PowerEdge T360 and ...

Protect Sensitive Data with a Confidential Computing Solution

Summary There are multiple considerations to take into account when deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning environments. This paper serves as a discussion and suggestion as to the possible hardware configurations to achieve a server infrastructure deployment that is secure and can grow with your increased need. Enterprises in most ...

Deploy a Simple RAG with Ollama and LlamaIndex on a Dell PowerEdge XE9680 Server with AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs

Introduction The days of simple online searches for information are fading as efficient Large Language Models (LLMs) coupled with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) agents provide quicker and more accurate responses. Imagine a High Performance Computing (HPC) lab shared among engineers with varying expertise levels. For example, Bobby, a machine learning ...

Reduce Server Power Usage and Save Money with Power Manager

Summary Between the substantial rise in energy costs and organizations’ sustainable initiatives to reduce global warming, lowering data center power usage is a key strategy for many IT teams. This Direct from Development Tech Note describes the capabilities of Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager version 3.0, which is a fully ...

Running Llama 3.1 405B models on Dell PowerEdge XE9680

Introduction Meta recently introduced the largest open-source language model and most capable, Llama 3.1 405B , which enables the AI community to explore new frontiers in synthetic data generation, model distillation, and building agent applications. Llama 3.1 is an auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture. The tuned ...

Dell PowerEdge XE9685L Server: Liquid Cooled AI Server with 5th Gen AMD EPYC and NVIDIA HGX B200 GPUs

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping industries, and the demand for computing platforms capable of efficiently training next-generation AI models has never been greater. The answer from Dell Technologies to this challenge is the latest Dell PowerEdge XE9685L server, a powerhouse server purposely built to handle the most demanding AI and ...

Dell Technologies Collaborative Contributions to OCP NIC 3.0 Development

Summary After the release of OCP2.0, Dell Technologies collaborated with various technology leaders to design the all-inclusive OCP3.0 adapter card. This DfD shares the story of how Dell Technologies contributed to the OCP3.0 design and will explain how this design is superior to alternate adapter card form factors such as ...

PowerEdge R750 server featuring a modern 100Gb Broadcom 57508 NIC achieved higher bandwidth in iPerf tests

While using multiple 25Gb NICs is an option to increase overall bandwidth of a server, our tests show that it may not optimize bandwidth usage as well as configuring your Dell PowerEdge R750 with a single 100Gb Broadcom 57508 NIC.

Get better oracle database performance with PowerEdge R7625 with PERC 12

Get better Oracle Database performance when you upgrade to the Dell PowerEdge R7625 featuring the PowerEdge RAID Controller 12 Series (PERC 12). Compared to the previous-gen Dell PowerEdge R7525 with PERC 11

Achieve Real-Time Data Processing with Confluent® Platform and Apache Kafka®

Summary Enabling mission critical application, system and connecting data to the entire organization with real-time data flow and process means that the system and software stack must be optimized. In this document Intel and Dell discuss key considerations and sample configurations for PowerEdge server deployments to ensure your Confluent Kafka ...

Dell PowerEdge 17th Generation Servers with Intel Xeon 6 Deliver Industry-Leading Performance in SPEC CPU 2026

Introduction Dell PowerEdge 17th‑generation servers powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors represent a new generation of enterprise infrastructure designed to deliver exceptional performance, scalability, and efficiency for modern workloads. These platforms combine advanced core architectures, high core counts, and improved memory and I/O capabilities to address demanding applications such as ...

Next-Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers: Designed with PCIe Gen 5 to Deliver Future-Ready Bandwidth

Summary This Direct from Development tech note describes PCIe Gen 5 for next-generation Dell PowerEdge servers. This document provides a high-level overview of PCIe Gen 5 and information about its performance improvement over Gen 4. PCIe Gen 4 and Gen 5 PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) is a high-speed bus ...

A Comparative Study of Hardware and Software RAID Performance and Benefits

Prowess Consulting compared hardware and software RAID arrays on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers across a variety of scenarios to determine which performed best in each usage. Executive Summary Hardware RAID remains the preferred choice for most enterprise workloads due to its ability to deliver lower latency, higher input/output operations per second ...

Protect data at rest with negligible impact on NVMe disk performance metrics

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ Secure Enterprise Key Manager (SEKM) feature available on new Dell PowerEdge servers provides additional data security with full disk AES-256 encryption and external key management.

Streamline more than server registration with the Dell OpenManage Enterprise Services plug-in.

In this report, we use our hands-on findings to illustrate how using the OMES plug-in could reduce the challenges associated with server registration across multiple consoles.

Dell PowerEdge Servers Offer Comprehensive GPU Acceleration Options

Summary The next generation of PowerEdge servers is engineered to accelerate insights by enabling the latest technologies. These technologies include next-gen CPUs bringing support for DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5 and PowerEdge servers that support a wide range of enterprise-class GPUs. Over 75% of next generation Dell PowerEdge servers offer ...

Are Rugged Compact Platforms Ready for Edge Ai?

Dell™ PowerEdge™ XR5610 Server supports 50 simultaneous streams running AI defect detection in a single CPU config with Dell™ PowerEdge™ XR Portfolio offering scalability to 4 CPUs at near-linear scale

Driving Advanced Graph Analytics with TigerGraph

Summary This joint paper, written by Dell Technologies, in collaboration with Intel ® , describes the key hardware considerations when configuring a successful graph database deployment and recommends configurations based on the most recent 15th Generation PowerEdge Server portfolio offerings. TigerGraph helps make graph technology more accessible. TigerGraph 3.x is ...

Strengthen the Security Posture of your PowerEdge Servers

We've heard it said “Give a hacker a 0-day vulnerability, and they will have access for a day; teach a hacker to phish, and they will have access for life.” That made us smile. However, at Dell Technologies we take security very seriously with the mindset that security should be ...

Upgrade to the PowerEdge T560 for powerful VDI deployments

Host more virtual machines (VMs) and experience huge graphics performance gains on the VMs with the latest NVIDIA GPUs

Dell PowerEdge with AMD EPYC on Openshift

Dell PowerEdge R6725 powered by AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series processors delivered higher throughput, improved efficiency, and greater scalability than a comparable Dell PowerEdge R6625 configuration powered by AMD EPYC™ 9004 Series processors.

Code Generation Deployment Guide - Dell Generative AI with Intel | Enterprise RAG

Introduction Solution Introduction: Dell Generative AI Solutions with Intel | Enterprise RAG combines the power of Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators with Dell’s high-performance servers, storage, networking, professional services, and full stack of open-source software to offer a turnkey RAG solution that makes turning enterprise data ...

Serve more customers with the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 and 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors

The 2U, two-socket PowerEdge R740 delivers more transactions per minute than an older HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9.

Cut Cloud Instance Costs and Boost Transactional Database Performance with Dell PowerEdge R770

Running a HammerDB workload, the on-premises Intel Xeon 6 processor-powered PowerEdge server could cut costs compared to an AWS EC2 m8i.2xlarge cloud instance Executive summary Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often rely on Microsoft SQL Server database workloads to support transaction-heavy business applications. IT teams for those organizations face many ...

Next-Generation Dell PowerEdge XR5610 Machine Learning Performance

Summary Dell Technologies has recently announced the launch of next-generation Dell PowerEdge servers that deliver advanced performance and energy-efficient design. This Direct from Development Tech Note describes the new capabilities you can expect from the next generation of PowerEdge servers. It discusses the test and results for machine learning (ML) ...

Deploy Splunk Enterprise Efficiently with Red Hat OpenShift on Dell Servers with Intel® Technologies

Summary Splunk Enterprise containerized deployments with Red Hat OpenShift can deliver substantial business benefits. In this brief, Intel and Dell technologists discuss key considerations to successfully deploy Splunk based containers, with recommendations on configurations based on the most recent 15th Generation PowerEdge Server portfolio offerings. Integrating data strategy into business ...

NVMe Performance Increases for Next-Generation PowerEdge Servers with PERC11 Controller

Summary Dell Technologies newest RAID iteration, PERC11, has undergone significant change - most notably the inclusion of hardware RAID support for NVMe drives. To better understand the benefits that this will bring, various metrics were tested, including NVMe IOPS, disk bandwidth and latency. This DfD compares NVMe performance readings of ...

Upgrade transactional database performance with Dell PowerEdge R660 servers running VMware vSphere 8.0

The performance of the latest-generation Dell PowerEdge R660 servers powered by 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors could help your organization generate more revenue, offer more services, or expand your user base.

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AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators on PowerEdge XE9680 serving Cohere’s Command R+ model using vLLM

Overview Cohere’s Command R+ model is an open weights research release of a 104B model with highly advanced capabilities including retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and tool use to automate sophisticated tasks. The tool use in this model generation enables multi-step tool use, which allows the model to combine multiple tools ...

Dell PowerEdge Servers with AMD EPYC™: Scalable ERP Performance for Manufacturing, Retail, and Supply Chain

Overview Enterprise resource planning (ERP) workloads are the operational heartbeat of many organizations, supporting thousands of users in contexts from order processing and inventory control to human resources and financials. But according to Gartner, over 70% of new ERP initiatives do not meet their goals. 1 To be an ERP ...

PowerEdge R750xa and NVIDIA H100 PCIe GPU: 66% Increase in HPC Performance per Watt

Summary Using the PowerEdge R750xa, the Dell HPC & AI Innovation Lab compared performance of the new NVIDIA H100 PCIe 310 W GPU to the previous- generation NVIDIA A100 PCIe GPU, using the supercomputer benchmark HPL. Results showed: 66% increase in performance per watt 67% increase in raw performance (TFLOPS), ...

Optimizing AI Infrastructure: Best Practices for Dell PowerEdge AMD Servers

Summary Modern AI training and inference workloads place unprecedented demands on the entire server stack, from compute, memory, fabric to I/O, thermal, and software affinity. Dell PowerEdge servers based on AMD EPYC processors—including the PowerEdge XE9785/XE9785L, XE9685L, XE7745, and R7725, R7715 platforms—are designed to host dense accelerator configurations such as ...

Battleground of Benchmarking: Dell PowerEdge T160/R260 vs. PowerEdge T150/R250 Servers

Summary In today's ever-changing world of IT, the performance of servers is crucial for keeping businesses running smoothly and customers happy. As companies look to enhance their systems, they often wonder: Are older servers still up to the task or is it time to embrace newer technology? To start with, ...

Unleashing GPT-OSS-120B: Performance Analysis on Dell XE9680

Unleashing GPT-OSS-120B: Performance Analysis on Dell XE9680 How Dell's flagship AI server handles OpenAI's latest open-source language model across 1 to 8 H100 GPU configurations Executive Summary OpenAI's release of GPT-OSS-120B represents a significant milestone in open-source large language models, offering enterprise-grade capabilities without vendor lock-in. We're excited that Dell ...

Can Dell™ PowerEdge™ R450 and Dell PowerEdge R550 Servers Meet the Flexibility and Performance Needs of SMBs?

Prowess Consulting put these servers to the test to determine how well they would perform as hosts for the database and virtual machine (VM) workloads typically found in small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs)

Ingesting data for use with a large language model for AI

We measured the performance of multiple disaggregated infrastructure server configurations to help decision-makers choose the right one for their needs. Organizations across industries are rapidly adopting internal AI platforms to boost employee productivity, support customers more cost-effectively, and remain competitive while keeping their proprietary data secure. Getting started with these ...

Dell and AMD Integrated Cyber Security Protection

Dell and AMD Cyber Security Infographic

PowerEdge R770 SPECpower Overview

The new Dell PowerEdge R770 expands the range of your datacenter with powerful, flexible, and efficient infrastructure solutions that simplify management while maximizing datacenter utilization. Equipped with the IDRAC10 dedicated security processor, the Dell PowerEdge R770 is a high-performance server for a variety of workloads. The purpose of this document ...

Increase Power Efficiency Without Diminishing Performance

Prowess Consulting examined the value of current-generation Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors for decreasing server energy consumption while maintaining performance. Executive Summary Data centers face growing challenges: rising energy costs, tightening sustainability mandates, and escalating performance demands driven by AI, analytics, and cloud workloads. Organizations must ...

Speeding time to insight: The Dell PowerEdge C6620 with Dell PERC 12 RAID controller for Apache Cassandra big

The new PowerEdge C6620 delivered better performance—both higher throughput and lower latency—than a previous-generation PowerEdge C6520 with PERC 11 Overview Every day, individuals and organizations generate massive quantities of data, from text messages to location data to information from sensors on factory floors and beyond. This rapid proliferation of data ...

PowerEdge T560 Delivers Significant Performance Boost and Scalability

Summary Dell PowerEdge T560, with 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, boosts performance by up to 114% compared to the prior-gen T550 with 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors [1] . This document presents gen-over-gen CPU benchmarks for three common T560 CPU configurations, and highlights key features that enable enterprises ...

Dell EMC Servers Shine in MLPerf Inference v0.7 Benchmark

As software applications and systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI) gain mainstream adoption across all industries, inference workloads for ongoing operations are becoming a larger resource consumer in the datacenter. MLPerf is a benchmark suite that is used to evaluate the performance profiles of systems for both training and inference AI ...

AMD Instinct™ MI300X Accelerators on PowerEdge™ XE9680 Rack Server with LORA Fine-tuning & vLLM Model Serving

| Putting AMD Instinct™ MI300X Accelerators to the Test on Dell PowerEdge™ XE9680 Rack Server with LORA Fine-tuning and vLLM Model Serving The release of the AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator marks a significant milestone in the AI hardware landscape, providing an alternative for powering today’s generative AI solutions. Dell has ...

World-Record Performance Results for Database-Management Workloads

Prowess research uncovers servers from Dell Technologies that offer exceptional performance with security for critical database- management workloads.

How Dell and Broadcom can help you make the transition to IPv6

IPv4 vs. IPv6: How we got here As the internet grew and commercialized late last century, it became increasingly clear that Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) limitations would eventually present issues. Enter Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in the 1990s. Despite the technology’s age, its adoption has been slow in ...

Reduce hands-on deployment times to near zero with iDRAC9 automation

Embedded in each Dell™ PowerEdge™ server, integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) v6.10 automates OS deployment alongside Zero-Touch provisioning features to simplify administrator tasks

Cloud Service Providers Need Performance and Value to Meet Customer Demands

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R650xs servers balance performance and value for medium-duty virtualization workloads.

Part I: Is AMD ROCm™ Ready to Deploy Leading AI Workloads?

PowerEdge R7615 AMD Instinct MI210 Accelerator Today, Innovation is GPU constrained, and we are seeing explosive growth in AI workloads, namely transformer based models for Generative AI. This blog explores AMD ROCm™ software and AMD GPUs, and AMD readiness for primetime. AMD ROCm™ or Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm) was launched ...

Understanding Thermal Design and Capabilities for the PowerEdge XR8000 Server

Summary This study is intended to help customers understand the behavior of the XR8000 PowerEdge server in harsh environmental conditions at the edge, and its resulting performance. The need to improve power efficiency and provide sustainable solutions has been imminent for some time. According to a Bloomberg report, in some ...

Stop a power zombie apocalypse using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

Power zombies, also known as ghost servers or comatose servers, can waste precious floor space, spike energy costs, and gnaw on staffing budgets. With Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager in place, your power zombie survival plan is in motion.

Dell CloudIQ Provides a Single Console for Proactive Monitoring with Negligible Impact on Network Bandwidth

Integrated management solutions that enable administrators to monitor environments from the cloud can save IT teams time and reduce the chance that they’ll miss key health or performance issues. It’s important to assess the amount of bandwidth CloudIQ uses.

Spark Machine Learning on Dell HS5610 Platform with Cloudera

Executive Summary To establish a thorough solution collateral for the Dell PowerEdge HS5610 platform integrated with Cloudera software, we are commencing benchmarking initiatives this year. These benchmarks will form the foundational baseline for our future testing endeavors, and it's essential to emphasize that we will not be making comparisons with ...

Good, Better, Best Automation of Bare Metal Server Deployment using OpenManage Enterprise

Introduction Customers looking for a simple method to automate Dell PowerEdge server deployment at scale need to review the use of Dell OpenManage Enterprise (OME). During a typical server deployment, customers need to configure firmware settings such as boot order, RAID storage configuration details, iDRAC settings, and security standards, in ...

New SAP BW Edition for SAP HANA Benchmarks- World Record with Intel® Xeon® 6 Processors with P-cores

Dell Technologies just announced performance upgrades for Dell PowerEdge, including the R770 and R670. In fact, according to the SAP Performance Benchmark, the PowerEdge R770 with the new 6th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor delivered outstanding SAP BW edition for SAP HANA benchmarks performance with a 2-processor server in all ...

Achieve More Storage Performance: Dell PowerEdge R750 Servers Equipped with Broadcom PCIe Gen4 Switches

Dell PowerEdge R750 server with PCIe Gen4 switches processed over 6.5M more random read IOPS and sustained over twice the gibibytes per second (GiB/s) on a 1MB sequential read workload compared to a previous-generations.

MLPerf Inference v3.0: Low-Power AI from Dell Servers with Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Accelerators

In this tech note, we present the MLPerf Inference v3.0 results obtained on three Dell servers, each using a different type of accelerator from the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 family.

MLPerf 4.1 Results: PowerEdge XE9680 and PowerEdge XE8640 with Nvidia Tensor Core GPUs

Introduction The artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by groundbreaking advancements in machine learning (ML). As researchers, developers, and companies race to push the boundaries of what's possible, there is a growing need for standardized benchmarks to objectively measure and compare the performance of ML ...

Support more VDI users with a Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 server powered by an AMD EPYC 75F3 processor

This white paper showcases the improvements for VDI while going from an AMD Epyc 2nd generation 32-core processor to an AMD Epyc 3rd generation 32-core processor.

Deep Learning Performance on MLPerf™ Training v1.0 with Dell EMC DSS 8440 Servers

Abstract This blog provides MLPerf™ Training v1.0 data center closed results for Dell EMC DSS 8440 servers running the MLPerf training benchmarks . Our results show optimal training performance for the DSS 8440 configurations on which we chose to run training benchmarks. Also, we can expect higher performance gains by ...

Unlocking the power of synthetic data generation using Llama 3.1 405B models on Dell PowerEdge XE9680

Introduction In the era of data-driven innovation, high-quality, diverse, and relevant data is the lifeblood of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) model development. However, the challenges of collecting and labeling real-world data are well-known: it is a time-consuming, expensive, and is often an improbable task due to privacy, ...

Streamline Administrator duties and gain more security and analytics features with Management Tools from Dell

The Dell management portfolio offered more features that simplify management, more security features, increased scalability, and easier firmware updates.

Innovation Wins: Dell PowerEdge R770 Delivers 15x Speed, 6:1 Consolidation, 12.7kW Savings vs. SuperMicro

Overview Modern data centers demand smarter infrastructure. A common question IT infrastructure managers face is: “How can I reduce power consumption on my existing infrastructure to support AI workloads?” The answer: Consolidate and Modernize. Replace your aging, power-hungry SuperMicro servers with the Dell PowerEdge R770—a platform engineered for efficiency, performance, ...

Optimize networking performance with the Dell PowerEdge R750 featuring a modern 100Gb Broadcom NIC

Testing with multiple instances, or data streams, showed that the PowerEdge R750 with a single 100Gb Broadcom 57508 NIC achieved higher frames per second (FPS) rates than the four-NIC solution.

Unveiling the World’s First MLPerf 4.1 Performance Results for AMD Instinct MI300X on PowerEdge XE9680

Introduction The artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by groundbreaking advancements in machine learning (ML). As researchers, developers, and companies race to push the boundaries of what's possible, there is a growing need for standardized benchmarks to objectively measure and compare the performance of ML ...

Maximizing Llama Open Source Model Inference Performance with Tensor Parallelism on a Dell XE9680 with H100s

This document describes the performance improvement in inference token generation that tensor parallelism brings to Llama-2 and Llama-3 open source models from Meta, when running on a Dell XE9680 server with 8x H100 GPU accelerators.

Dell PowerEdge Servers with AMD EPYC™: High Throughput and Responsiveness for Java-Based Enterprise Workloads

Overview Java continues to act as the backbone of enterprise IT. From enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and e-commerce platforms to financial transaction engines and middleware stacks, Java workloads are mission-critical for businesses of all sizes. But they’re not lightweight. To successfully support your business goals, these workloads require a ...

Getting Started with Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)

Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) is a baseboard management controller (BMC) built into Dell PowerEdge servers. iDRAC allows IT administrators to monitor, manage, update, troubleshoot, and remediate Dell servers from any location without the use of agents and out-of-band. It consists of both hardware and software that provides extensive ...

Enterprise RAG Deployment Guide with Intel® Gaudi® 3 and Dell PowerEdge

Dell Generative AI Solutions with Intel | Enterprise RAG Turnkey Generative AI solutions powered by Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators and the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 platform Enterprises need turnkey retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions to help them transform their data into actionable insights, but they are struggling to find an open ...

New License Management Functionality In OpenManage Enterprise 4.1

Introduction OpenManage Enterprise 4.1 has incorporated the functionality of the existing Dell License Manager (DLM) tool. The key benefit of this new feature is for customers who have purchased APOS (After Point-of-Sale) OpenManage Enterprise or iDRAC upgrade licenses, OpenManage Enterprise (OME) can now seamlessly tie and install these licenses to ...

Dell PowerEdge R760 with 5th Generation Xeon CPU and Cloudera® Data Platform for AI-based Use Cases

Dell PowerEdge R760 with 5 th Generation Xeon CPU and Cloudera® Data Platform Offer 60% Performance Boost for AI-based Use Cases Summary Cloudera is a hybrid data platform designed for unmatched freedom to choose—any cloud, any analytics, any data. The solution platform consists of two products: Cloudera® Private Cloud Base ...

Dell PowerEdge XE9680/XE7740 Servers AI-Powered Genomics Benchmarking

Benchmarking Report on Genome Sequencing, Protein Structure Modeling, and AI Workload Performance Executive Summary Dell PowerEdge XE9680/XE7740 servers power the future of genomics. Built for high-performance environments, they combine GPU acceleration and transformer-based AI models to decode DNA faster, model proteins smarter, and accelerate biological discoveries. With frameworks like Neucleotide ...

Optimize networking performance with the Dell PowerEdge R750 featuring a modern 100Gb Broadcom NIC

This infographic discusses optimizing network performance with a Dell PowerEdge R750 with a Broadcom NIC

Silicon Diversity: Deploy GenAI on the PowerEdge XE9680 with AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators

| Entering the Era of Choice in AI: Putting Dell ™ PowerEdge ™ XE9680 Server with AMD Instinct™ MI300X Accelerators to the Test by Fine-tuning and Deploying Llama 2 70B Chat Model. In this blog, Scalers AI™ will show you how to fine-tune large language models (LLMs), deploy 70B parameter ...

Dell PowerEdge Servers Unleash Another Round of Excellent Results with MLPerf™ v4.0 Inference

Today marks the unveiling of MLPerf v4.0 Inference results, which have emerged as an industry benchmark for AI systems. These benchmarks are responsible for assessing the system-level performance consisting of state-of-the-art hardware and software stacks. The benchmarking suite contains image classification, object detection, natural language processing, speech recognition, recommenders, medical ...

CXL: Memory Expanded and Optimized for Dell PowerEdge Servers

Introduction Compute Express Link (CXL) is a high-speed, low-latency interconnect designed to enhance communication between CPUs, memory, and accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs. By enabling memory expansion and device coherency, CXL improves performance and efficiency in modern data centers. The Dell PowerEdge R7725, powered by AMD 5th Gen EPYC ...

PowerEdge XE8712 with NVIDIA GB200: A High‑Density Foundational Server for Rack‑Scale AI

AI inference demand is exploding. Models are getting larger, context windows are getting longer, and customers are asking for higher throughput, lower latency, and better efficiency per watt from their infrastructure. To meet that demand, Dell Technologies has introduced a new class of AI optimized servers: the Dell PowerEdge XE8712, ...

PowerEdge Server Telemetry Turn Data to Insight

Summary To achieve and maintain optimal server performance and availability for new AI workloads and existing mission critical server workloads, effective server resource management is vital. These emerging AI workloads running on GPU together with CPU intense applications increasing demand for greater server hardware performance, can stretch resource, so need ...

Reduce Server Downtime with Dell™ Rebootless Firmware Update for Single or Multiple Drives in Parallel

Prowess Consulting evaluated the Integrated Dell™ Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) sideband direct rebootless and parallel firmware update capabilities on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and analyzed their effects on server maintenance cycles and IT staff

CPU-GPU Co-Serving Performance Analysis for Maximizing AI Inference Throughput

CPU-GPU Co-Serving Performance Analysis of Dell PowerEdge XE9780 with NVIDIA B200 and Intel Xeon 6767P Dell PowerEdge XE9780LAP with NVIDIA B300 and Intel Xeon 6979P Dell PowerEdge XE9780L with NVIDIA B300 and Intel Xeon 6776P Executive summary As artificial intelligence workloads scale across enterprises, maximizing inference throughput while maintaining cost ...

Dell Delivers AI PoC for Transportation and Logistics – Executive Summary

To demonstrate an AI-powered application focused on transportation and logistics, Scalers AITM, in partnership with Dell, Broadcom, and The Futurum group, implemented a proof-of-concept for a maritime cargo monitoring solution.

PowerEdge Components Tech Talks

iDRAC9 Telemetry Enhancements: Customizable Reports and Multiple Consoles

Summary iDRAC9 telemetry enhancements include the ability to create user- defined custom reports and balance volume of streamed telemetry across more than one collection point. iDRAC9 data streamed to an external ingress collector, from which tools like Splunk or ELK Stack can be used to aggregate data, examine trends, issue ...

PowerEdge Components Tech Talks

Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 servers and gain better OLTP and VDI performance

Learn more on how upgrading to the Dell PowerEdge R6515 can improve performance and lower licensing costs.

Test Report: PowerEdge R760 with SQL Server

Summary The testing outlined in this paper was conducted in conjunction with Intel and Solidigm. Server hardware was provided by Dell, Processors and Network devices were provided by Intel, and Storage technology was provided by Solidigm. All tests were conducted in Dell Labs with contributions from Intel Performance Engineers and ...

Dell Next Generation PowerEdge Servers: Designed for PCIe Gen4 to Deliver Future Ready Bandwidth

Summary PCIe is the primary interface for connecting various peripherals in a server. The Next Generation of Dell PowerEdge servers have been designed keeping PCIe Gen4 in mind. PCIe Gen4 effectively doubles the throughput available per lane compared to PCIe Gen3. The PCIe Interface PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) is ...

Expanding GPU Choice with Intel Data Center GPU Max Series

This is part two, read part one here: https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/p/llama-2-on-dell-poweredge-xe9640-with-intel-data-center-gpu-max-1550/ | MORE CHOICE IN THE GPU MARKET We are delighted to showcase our collaboration with Intel® to introduce expanded options within the GPU market with the Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series, now accessible via Dell™ PowerEdge™ XE9640 & 760xa. The ...

Analyzing How Gen4 NVMe Drive Performance Scales on the PowerEdge R7525

Summary Gen4 NVMe drives double the PCIe speeds of Gen3 from 1GB/s to 2GB/s per lane, effectively increasing the performance capability by two times. However, users also need to understand how Gen4 NVMe performance scales when more than one drive is loaded into a populated server running workloads. This DfD ...

Finish machine learning preparation tasks on Kubernetes containers in less time with the PowerEdge R7525

This brief white paper developed by Principled Technologies showcases the effectiveness of the Dell R7525 for containerized Machine Learning workloads, by comparing the AMD-based Dell R7525 against a similarly priced competing HPE DL380 Gen10.

Dell PowerEdge Servers with AMD EPYC™: Fast, Scalable Platforms for Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing

Overview With the advent of artificial intelligence and edge computing, businesses are accumulating increasing amounts of data—which is only valuable if you can use it. Business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing workloads are all about turning these massive volumes of structured data into actionable insights. To run complex SQL queries, ...

Dell Next Generation PowerEdge Servers: Designed with DDR5 to Deliver Future-Ready Bandwidth

Summary This Direct from Development (DfD) tech note describes the DDR5 Memory technology for Dell’s latest generation PowerEdge Server portfolio. This document provides a high-level overview for DDR5, including information about generational performance improvement. Overview DDR5 Memory technology is the next big advancement in the world of DRAM Memory and ...

Multi-Agent Q&A Application

A sophisticated multi-agent Q&A application featuring intelligent task delegation to specialized agents with enterprise inference integration. The Multi-Agent Q&A Application is a sophisticated, enterprise-ready system that processes user queries through a coordinated set of specialized agents. Its primary purpose is to analyze incoming questions, determine their intent, and route them ...

Modernizing PowerEdge Observability with OpenTelemetry for Peak Performance

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, maintaining optimal server performance and reliability is more critical than ever. Traditional monitoring tools often fall short, struggling with fragmented data, limited visibility, and reactive troubleshooting. Enter OpenTelemetry, a transformative framework that, when integrated with Dell AIOps, delivers data insights and elevates server observability to ...

Advanced Features of the iDRAC9 eHTML Virtual Console

Summary The iDRAC9 Virtual Console feature allows users to perform server operations remotely as if they are in front of the server, bringing more flexibility and security. Beginning with iDRAC9 firmware 6.00.00, eHTML5 will be the single option to access virtual console and virtual media. Introduction Embedded with every Dell ...

Upgrading To OpenManage Enterprise 4.0

Upgrading To OpenManage Enterprise 4.0 Authors : Mark Maclean, PowerEdge Technical Marketing Engineering / Manoj Malhotra, Product Manager, OME Summary Dell OpenManage Enterprise is an infrastructure management console for Dell PowerEdge Servers offering a full lifecycle management solution plus many other features. Since its initial release OpenManage Enterprise (often abbreviated ...

Running the MLPerf Inference v0.7 Benchmark on Dell EMC Systems

MLPerf is a benchmarking suite that measures the performance of Machine Learning (ML) workloads. It focuses on the most important aspects of the ML life cycle: Training —The MLPerf training benchmark suite measures how fast a system can train ML models. Inference —The MLPerf inference benchmark measures how fast a ...

Dell Servers Excel in MLPerf™ Inference 3.0 Performance

MLCommons has released the latest version (version 3.0) of MLPerf Inference results . Dell Technologies has been an MLCommons member and has been making submissions since the inception of the MLPerf Inference benchmark. Our latest results exhibit stellar performance from our servers and continue to shine in all areas of ...

PowerEdge R7625 Rack Server & Emulex: 64G Fibre Channel Enables up to 4:1 Application Server Consolidation

Dell PowerEdge R7625 Rack Server & Emulex LPe36002 Host Bus Adapter 64G Fibre Channel Enables up to 4:1 Application Server Consolidation Tolly Report #224104 Tolly test report demonstrating that Dell PowerEdge R7625 Rack Server outfitted with the Emulex LPe36002 64G Fibre Channel adapter can improve application performance up to 4x ...

Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

Introduction Data centers today are facing rising energy demands, escalating operational costs, and the urgent need to align with sustainability targets. These challenges call for smarter power management solutions. Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager offers a cutting-edge way to monitor and control power usage across servers at every level—from individual ...

Consolidate Oracle Database workloads on Dell PowerEdge R7725 with AMD EPYC processors for quicker insights

Get quicker insights and save over the next five years by consolidating your Oracle Database workloads on the Dell PowerEdge R7725 with 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors Compared to a legacy HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10, the new Dell PowerEdge R7725 delivered faster analytics performance for Oracle Database, enabling consolidation for ...

Dell PowerEdge RX70 Intel NEBS Solution Brief

With completion of NEBS Level 3 compliance testing, the Dell PowerEdge R470, R670, and R770 deliver carrier-grade, Intel Xeon 6 performance that CSPs can trust across central offices, remote facilities, and network-critical sites.

iDRAC9 Virtual Power Cycle: Remotely power cycle Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers

Summary Dell EMC PowerEdge servers stand out for offering the ability to remotely invoke an A/C power cycle to the Baseboard Management Controller. With distributed and scaled-out IT environments, the means of restoring or resetting power states in as little time as possible takes on added importance. Introduction On those ...

Server Configuration Profiles: Reference Guide

This document details all aspects of SCP’s template-based server configuration, updates, and operating system deployment operations, with many examples and tutorials.

Multinode Performance of Dell PowerEdge Servers with MLPerfTM Training v1.1

The Dell MLPerf v1.1 submission included multinode results. This blog showcases performance across multiple nodes on Dell PowerEdge R750xa and XE8545 servers and demonstrates that the multinode scaling performance was excellent. The compute requirement for deep learning training is growing at a rapid pace. It is imperative to train models ...

Unveiling the Power of the PowerEdge XE9680 Server on the GPT-J Model from MLPerf™ Inference

Abstract For the first time, the latest release of the MLPerf™ inference v3.1 benchmark includes the GPT-J model to represent large language model (LLM) performance on different systems. As a key player in the MLPerf consortium since version 0.7, Dell Technologies is back with exciting updates about the recent submission ...

Rein in power consumption faster and more easily

Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.0 delivered faster server power monitoring and capping vs. completing tasks manually

Automate High-Touch Server Lifecycle Management Tasks with OpenManage Enterprise Integrations & Plugins

This paper discusses key elements within the systems management portfolio that help IT admins save valuable time and resources with policy-based automation, using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise (OME) 3.5.

PowerEdge BIOS Performance and Workload Tuning Guide for 16G

These optimizations can lead to significant improvements in system responsiveness, workload handling, and overall efficiency of the Dell PowerEdge server.

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Standing Up a Gen AI API Endpoint with Enterprise Inference

A single-node deployment guide for serving OpenAI-compatible inference on Dell™ PowerEdge™ with Intel® Xeon® or Intel® Gaudi®. Covers configuration, authentication modes, model deployment, endpoint validation, and a five-model run behind one gateway.

Scaling and Optimizing ML in Enterprises

Summary This joint paper, written by Dell Technologies, in collaboration with Intel ® , describes the key hardware considerations when configuring a successful MLOps deployment and recommends configurations based on the most recent 15th Generation Dell PowerEdge Server portfolio offerings. Today’s enterprises are looking to operationalize machine learning to accelerate ...

Dell PowerEdge XE9712 with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72: MLPerf Training v6.0 Results and Scale-Out Insights

Purpose: This blog extends Dell's submitted MLPerf Training v6.0 numbers with additional talking points about scaling behavior, workload characteristics, and customer impact for enterprise AI infrastructure planning. Executive summary Nearly 10x faster Llama 3.1 8B training when scaling from one XE9712 GB300 node to 16 nodes. 7.0x faster GPT-OSS 20B ...

Keep an eye on your power consumption with Power Manager

This infographic descibes how Power Manager can not only save money, but also create a greener and more sustainable data center.

New PowerEdge R350 Overview

Summary After nearly three years, Dell Technologies has released the new PowerEdge R350, a mainstream, scalable 1S rack server designed to power and scale value workloads and applications at a low price that provides customers optimal balance of useful enterprise features and affordability. This DfD describes the new capabilities you ...

Lab Insight: A Foundation for Scalable Infrastructure: Dell + Broadcom

Executive Summary Business leaders are increasingly focused on finding ways to improve existing operational efficiency, and support new cloud and AI applications. These operational imperatives must be met while simultaneously ensuring data privacy and governance is maintained. These challenges have led many organizations to explore ways to build a hybrid ...

GenAI Edge Video Summarization Workload on Dell PowerEdge R470 Edge Platform with Intel Xeon 6 Processors

Executive summary Enterprises are increasingly seeking ways to run Generative AI workloads at the edge without relying on costly GPU infrastructure or large data center deployments. This study evaluates an Edge AI Video Summarization pipeline built and optimized on the Intel Xeon 6 6761P processors on a Dell PowerEdge R470 ...

Upgrade transactional database performance with Dell PowerEdge R660 servers running VMware vSphere 8.0

In a VMware vSAN cluster, the latest‑generation servers powered by 4 th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors completed more orders per minute (OPM) than clusters of older servers Online transactional processing (OLTP) performance can affect your ability to generate revenue, offer services, and support users. Replacing aging servers with a ...

Choosing the Right Server Form Factor for Telecom Deployment at Cell Site

This document explores server form factor options at the cell site and maps it to different configurations or use cases.

AI-Powered Multi-Agent Infrastructure Monitoring for Telecom Networks

Executive Summary Mobile network data traffic is projected to reach several hundred exabytes per month by 2030, driven by an estimated 30+ billion connected devices generating both human and machine data. 1 As this growth accelerates, telecom operators face a widening gap between the speed at which equipment fails and ...

Vision, Voice, and Language

Introduction As enterprises scale AI adoption, a core infrastructure question continues to emerge: when should organizations transition from CPUs to GPUs for AI workloads? Historically, GPUs have dominated AI acceleration due to their parallel processing capabilities well-suited to the matrix operations critical to modern deep learning. However, recent advancements in ...

Reach business insights sooner with R6515 servers and value SAS and data center NVMe SSDs from KIOXIA

A configuration with value SAS and data center NVMe SSDs from KIOXIA provided better data analytics performance and lower costs per iteration than a configuration with enterprise SATA SSDs.

Meet the Dell PowerEdge T560: The office game changer

Discover four ways the PowerEdge T560 outperforms the prior-generation T550 tower server across various workloads

PowerEdge XE9680 Rack Integration with Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator

Introduction Correct server rack integration is crucial for the efficient and reliable operation of a data center. Optimizing space, power, and cooling can reduce downtime, simplify fleet management, improve serviceability, and lower overall costs. However, successful server rack integration requires careful planning, attention to detail, and expertise in server hardware, ...

Cut server migration times by upgrading to Dell PowerEdge MX from legacy Cisco UCS

The modular Dell PowerEdge MX server platform offers an attractive migration target that can simplify the server migration process and save significant administrator time and effort compared to moving to a new Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System.

Testing of performance and VDI user density of PowerEdge R750 vs. PowerEdge R760 with Intel Xeon Platinum CPUs

Summary The new Dell PowerEdge R760 with 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® processors offers customers the increased scalability and performance necessary to improve operation of their virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The testing highlighted in this document was conducted in Dell Labs by Intel Engineers in December 2022 to provide customers with ...

Part III | How to Run Llama-2 via Hugging Face Models on AMD ROCm™ with Dell PowerEdge™?

PowerEdge R7615 AMD Instinct MI210 Accelerator In our second blog, we provided a step-by-step guide on how to get models running on AMD ROCm™, set up TensorFlow and PyTorch, and deploying GPT-2. In this guide, we are now exploring how to set up a leading large language model (LLM) Llama-2 ...

Boost performance with the new Dell PowerEdge R260

Introducing the new entry-level short depth and compact single-socket server from Dell Technologies, packed with the latest innovations including the latest Intel Xeon E-2400 processors, giving you up to double the CPU performance.

Dell PowerEdge Boot Optimized Storage Solution – BOSS-N1

Summary Our latest generation HW RAID BOSS solution (BOSS-N1) incorporates NVMe Enterprise class M.2 NVMe SSDs. It includes important RAS features such as rear or front facing drives on our new rack servers and full hot-plug support, so a server does not need to be taken offline in case of ...

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MLPerf™ Inference v2.1 with NVIDIA GPU-Based Benchmarks on Dell PowerEdge Servers

This white paper describes the successful submission, which is the sixth round of submissions to MLPerf Inference v2.1 by Dell Technologies. It provides an overview and highlights the performance of different servers that were in submission.

Dell PowerEdge R770 with Xeon 6 Inferencing using MLPerf 5.1 Suite

Dell PowerEdge R770: Purpose-Built for AI Workloads The Dell PowerEdge server portfolio is designed to address the evolving demands of modern AI and Generative AI workloads, delivering unparalleled performance, scalability, and efficiency. The PowerEdge R770, a 2U, dual-socket rack server, embodies this design philosophy, offering a potent combination of compute ...

A single-socket PowerEdge R7515 solution compared with a dual-socket HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 solution

This infographic, developed by Principal Technologies, compares transactional database work in a vSAN environment between the Dell PowerEdge R7515, an HPE DL380 Gen10, and an HPE DL 380 Gen9.

Cloud vs Edge: Putting Cutting- Edge AL Voice, Vision, & Language Modules to the Test in the Cloud & Edge

| DEPLOYING LEADING AI MODELS ON THE EDGE OR IN THE CLOUD The decision to deploy workloads at the edge or in the cloud is often a contest shaped by four pivotal factors: economics, latency, regulatory requirements, and fault tolerance. Some might distill these considerations into a more colloquial framework: ...

PowerEdge MX solution with RM5 Series Value SAS SSDs compared to the same solution with enterprise SATA SSDs

A PowerEdge MX solution with RM5 Series value SAS SSDs processed more simulated customer orders, responded in less time, and provided better per-system value than the same solution with enterprise SATA SSDs.

Dell R760 with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

Dell™ R760 Performance Insights with 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® using Intel® Deep Learning Boost with Advanced Matrix Extensions results in nearly double performance from prior gen on Video AI workloads

NVMe and I/O Topologies for Next-Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers

This white paper describes the unique NVMe and I/O interconnect topologies spanning the latest PowerEdge rack server portfolio.

Principled Technologies Report: Save IT admin time with PowerEdge MX and OpenManage Enterprise

Save IT admin time with the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX platform and OpenManage Enterprise. This solution required 86.8 percent less admin time to implement VMware vSAN and 19 fewer steps to update firmware on a single system compared to competitor's solution.

Can newer Dell EMC servers offer significantly better performance for Microsoft SQL Server?

Prowess testing shows significantly more new orders per minute (NOPM) and faster RAID rebuild times after upgrading older servers to Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 servers.

PowerEdge R750 Servers with NVMe RAID Unleash Microsoft SQL Server Database Performance

Remove performance bottlenecks, expand database capacity, and reduce rebuild times with Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 servers built with 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, fast NVM Express (NVMe) SSDs, and the latest generation of RAID controllers.

Take Your Workload to the Edge

Dell Technologies has a dedicated, and growing portfolio of purpose-built edge servers uniquely designed to handle the multitude of workloads you might deploy on the edge while providing enough flexibility and scalability to grow with you in your edge journey. This interactive guide showcases the latest generation of XR servers; ...

Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 servers and gain better OLTP and VDI performance

Learn how upgrading to the Dell PowerEdge R6515 can improve performance and lower licensing costs.

Enabling Efficient LLM Inferencing: Power Capping Strategies for PowerEdge XE9680

Summary As the power demand of high-performance GPU servers like the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 continues to rise, customers are increasingly seeking to balance their performance requirements with data center power constraints. One effective solution is power capping the GPUs. This approach not only helps achieve high performance within the server's ...

Handle more Oracle transactions and support more VMs with the Dell PowerEdge R7625 featuring PERC 12

By updating your data center hardware with the latest Dell™ PowerEdge™ R7625 servers with PERC 12, you could support more customers at a time making online purchases, booking reservations, and more.

PowerEdge Servers w/ 5th Gen AMD EPYC Processors Deliver Performance & Value for SMB, Enterprise or Datacenter

This sales guide provides an at-a-glance comparison of 17th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC processors to help customers make informed decisions about their IT investments.

Dell AI PoC for Transportation & Logistics

As part of Dell’s ongoing efforts to help make industry-leading AI workflows available to its clients, this paper outlines a sample AI solution for the transportation and logistics market.

NVMe Hot-Plug and Industry Adoption

Summary Dell EMC understands that hot- plug operations for NVMe SSDs while the server is running are essential to reducing and preventing costly downtime. The latest PowerEdge servers support a wide variety of hot- plug serviceability features, including: Surprise insertion, which enables addition of NVMe SSDs to the server without ...

Financial Services Firms Can Run Digital Marketing Campaigns Faster and Cheaper with On-Premises AI

Tests show how on-premises Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers featuring 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ processors can achieve superior total cost of ownership (TCO) and performance compared to running AI-driven market-analysis workloads in the cloud. Executive Summary As financial services enterprises integrate AI into their operations, the demands on their compute infrastructures grow. ...

Introduction to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 1.1 on Dell PowerEdge GPU Enabled Servers

This white paper provides an overview of the features and capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI on Dell GPU enabled servers.

Server upgrade considerations for small and medium-sized businesses

Learn more about how the latest generation of Dell PowerEdge single-socket servers powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors may be the right upgrade for your business.

Lab Insight: Dell and Broadcom Deliver Scale-Out AI Platform for Industry

Executive Summary As part of Dell’s ongoing efforts to help make industry-leading AI workflows available to its clients, this paper outlines a solution example that leverages scale-out hardware and software technologies to deliver a generative AI application. Over the past decade, the practical applications of artificial intelligence (AI have increased ...

The Future of Server Cooling- Part 1. The History of Server and Data Center Cooling Technologies

Summary Today’s servers require more power than ever before. While this spike in power has led to more capable servers, it has coincidentally pushed legacy thermal hardware to its limit. The inability to support top- performance servers without liquid cooling will soon become an industry-wide challenge. We hope that by ...

Virtualized GPU Instances on Dell EMC PowerEdge Platforms for Compute Intensive Workloads

Summary In this DfD we address a common problem that is faced by IT teams across different organizations – being able to efficiently share and utilize NVIDIA GPU resources across different teams and projects. AI adoption is growing in many organizations leading to increased demand of GPU accelerated compute instances. ...

Instant Scramble Erase

Summary The ability to erase a storage drive both quickly and completely is critical for customers looking to retire or repurpose their server’s hardware. Instant Scramble Erase (ISE) is an easy-to- use feature that lets users instantly erase their storage drives so they can be retired or repurposed for future ...

Dell Technologies Delivers Outstanding Results in MLPerf™ Inference v4.1

Today marks the unveiling of MLPerf v4.1 Inference results, an emergent industry benchmark for AI systems. These benchmarks assess the system-level performance of state-of-the-art hardware and software stacks across a wide range of AI tasks, including image classification, object detection, natural language processing, speech recognition, recommender systems, medical image segmentation, ...

Accelerate Genomics Insights and Discovery with High-Performing, Scalable Architecture from Dell and Intel

Summary The field of genomics requires the storage and processing of vast amounts of data. In this brief, Intel and Dell technologists discuss key considerations to successfully deploy BeeGFS based storage for genomics applications on the 16th Generation PowerEdge Server portfolio offerings. Market positioning The life sciences industry faces intense ...

Dell™ Servers Versus HPE® Servers: A Price-Performance Comparison

Analysis conducted by Prowess Consulting finds that Dell™ PowerEdge™ R650xs servers can provide better overall value and relative performance, compared to HPE® ProLiant® DL360 Gen10 Plus servers

Powering TigerGraph with Intel® Xeon® Processors on PowerEdge Servers

TigerGraph Overview At the top of this webpage are 3 PDF files outlining test results and reference configurations for Dell PowerEdge servers using both the 3rd Generation Intel Xeon processors and 4th Generation Intel Xeon processors. All testing was conducted in Dell Labs by Intel and Dell Engineers in May ...

Dell Secured Component Verification (SCV) - Expand Supply Chain Security

The Dell Technologies Secured Component Verification (SCV) tool has been identified as the best supply-chain solution to verify server configurations.

The power of cyber resiliency at your core

At Dell Technologies, we often talk about how security is ingrained into our product DNA. What we mean is that security is never an afterthought — it’s never something that we build on after the product itself is complete. Instead — and our Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) is a key ...

Principled Technologies Report: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX platform powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors

Ensure greater uptime and boost VMware vSAN cluster performance with the PowerEdge MX platform. PowerEdge MX with VMware vSAN Ready Nodes delivered a 55.9% faster response time than a Cisco UCS solution and a faster response time than an HPE synergy solution.

MLPerf™ Training v6.0: Latest Benchmarking Results on the PowerEdge XE9785L and XE9785 Server with Mi355X

Dell Technologies continues to deliver cutting-edge AI performance with its latest MLPerf Training v6.0 benchmark submission, showcasing results on the liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge XE9875L server powered by AMD MI355X GPUs and the air-cooled Dell PowerEdge XE9875. This submission highlights strong performance for modern large language model (LLM) pretraining and fine ...

MLPerf™ Inference 4.0 on Dell PowerEdge Server with Intel® 5th Generation Xeon® CPU

Introduction In this blog, we present the MLPerf™ v4.0 Data Center Inference results obtained on a Dell PowerEdge R760 with the latest 5 th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (a CPU only system). These new Intel® Xeon® processors use an Intel® AMX matrix multiplication engine in each core to boost ...

vLLM Meets Kubernetes-Deploying Llama-3 Models using KServe on Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with AMD MI300X

Introduction Dell's PowerEdge XE9680 server infrastructure, coupled with the capabilities of Kubernetes and KServe, offers a comprehensive platform for seamlessly deploying and managing sophisticated large language models such as Meta AI's Llama-3, addressing the evolving needs of AI-driven businesses. Our previous blog post explored leveraging advanced Llama-3 models (meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct and ...

The TCO Titan: MI355X vs MI300X on Dell PowerEdge™ Servers with AMD Instinct™ GPUs

Executive Summary As AI inference scales from pilot to production, the defining metric shifts from raw throughput to total cost of ownership: how much compute, power, and rack space each generated token consumes over a three-year lifecycle. In head-to-head benchmarks running Qwen3-235B-A22B on Dell PowerEdge servers, the AMD Instinct MI355X ...

Dell PowerEdge 17th Generation Rack Server Portfolio: Performance vs Optimized vs Specialized

Overview With its 17th Generation, Dell PowerEdge introduces a refined server classification designed to better align with workload requirements: Performance, Optimized, and Specialized. Building on the strengths of previous generations, these servers are engineered to deliver exceptional performance, scalability, and efficiency through support for PCIe Gen5, DDR5 memory, and Intel ...

Resolving ACS Disable on Dell PowerEdge Platforms

Summary In optimized systems, achieving full performance for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) often requires disabling Access Control Services (ACS). ACS creates unnecessary overhead for RDMA applications, leading to severe performance bottlenecks. Therefore, customers who will be using RDMA applications will need to disable ACS. This limitation impacts systems using ...

Secure Enterprise Key Management For Additional Data-At-Rest Protection

Infographic that outlines Dell's key management solutions. Enterprise Key Manager (SEKM) hardware-based encryption protects the data stored on drives in PowerEdge™ servers against multiple threat vectors, including physical removal.

Meta Llama 4 Models on the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 Server with AMD Instinct MI300x GPUs

Introduction Dell Technologies has been working with our partners AMD and Hugging Face to provide inference solutions with outstanding performance by using the new Meta Llama 4 large context models that are now available. Both the Llama 4 Maverick model with a context of 1 million tokens and the Llama ...

Empower virtual desktop users with PowerEdge R650xs servers with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors

This new PowerEdge XS server is equipped with 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, support for PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 4, and the latest memory, networking, storage, and security technologies.

Holiday Cheer, OpenManage Style

Forget partridges in pear trees and golden rings—this year, the OpenManage elves at Dell have written a carol for server managers everywhere. Because let’s be honest: nothing says holiday cheer quite like twelve firmware updates waiting in your inbox . It’s the kind of Christmas list only a sever administrator ...

Get better transactional database performance from a R740xd server with value SAS and data center NVMe SSDs

A PowerEdge R740xd server with drives from KIOXIA achieves better transactional database performance at a lower cost than the same server with enterprise SATA SSDs.

The Second Generation RockPOD Reference Architecture

This white paper describes the Reference Architecture for the second-generation RockPOD scalable compute solution.

The Science: Handle more Oracle transactions and support more VMs with the Dell PowerEdge R7625 with PERC 12

This document describes what we tested, how we tested, and what we found when the PowerEdge R7625 with PERC 12 is compared against HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 with Smart Array P440ar

PowerEdge “xs” vs. “Standard” vs. “xa” vs. “xd2”

Summary With the recent announcement of 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Dell has announced two different models of the R660 and four different models of the R760 to meet emerging customer demands. This paper highlights the engineering elements of each design and explains why we expanded the portfolio. Balancing ...

PowerEdge R7525 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): Windows 10 Scalability vs. Prior-Generation Platform

This brief 6-page whitepaper developed by the Tolly Group reports a few advantages of the R7525 for VDI use cases.

Metrum Insights: Methodology Appendix for LLM Inferencing

Metrum Insights: Methodology Appendix for LLM Inferencing Performance Testing Methodology Metrum Insights , a performance benchmarking framework for large language model (LLM) serving, uses a distributed architecture that is designed to simulate real-world production scenarios. The system consists of three core components that work in harmony to deliver accurate and ...

Enjoy the Convenience and Flexibility of Cloud by using Hybrid On-premises Solutions Based on Dell Servers

In this paper, we draw on our own research and Dell marketing materials to present the solutions that the company offers to organizations choosing the on-premises private cloud and hybrid cloud approaches.

Power Endless Innovation with Dell PowerEdge Servers

Read more about lab tested, benchmarked and third‑party proven Dell PowerEdge server benefits.

iDRAC9 Telemetry Streaming: Evaluation of the Performance and Efficiency in the New iDRAC9 v4.0 release

This brief, 6-page white paper, developed by The Tolly Group, reports that the latest version of iDRAC9 v4.0 Datacenter license provides significantly more raw data and high-value data reports, yielding dramatically improved network efficiency.

PowerEdge MX760c vs. PowerEdge MX750c: AI-Related Performance Testing

Trust the numbers: Dell PowerEdge MX760c using 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors performs better machine learning. Grid Dynamics set out to review whether taking a CPU-only (non-GPU) approach is effective in training and inference tasks for small and medium-sized machine learning models (up to ten million parameters), and whether ...

Enabling Intel® TDX on Dell PowerEdge

Summary One of the primary targets for cyber attackers is data. Data breaches can have devastating consequences for businesses, ranging from financial to reputational damage. With the emerging threat of AI-powered cyber attacks alongside growing infrastructure complexity, implementing strong data protection measures is crucial. Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that ransomware attacks ...

Defense in-depth: Comprehensive Security on PowerEdge AMD EPYC Generation 2 (Rome) Servers

Summary Security in servers is no longer an afterthought – it is a key consideration in the choice of a server provider and platform. Dell EMC approaches security in multiple layers to best protect customer assets and data. This includes not just security built into the system and components, but ...

The Science Behind: Reduce hands-on deployment times to near zero with iDRAC9 automation

This document describes what we tested, how we tested, and what we found. To learn how these facts translate into real-world benefits, read the report Reduce hands-on deployment times to near zero with iDRAC9 automation

The evolution of Dell EMC PowerEdge Server Systems Management

This infographic depicts evolutionary changes within systems management to meet the demands of the data center. Principled Technologies has found that the tools in the Dell EMC OpenManage Suite have improved the speed and quality of systems management.

iDRAC9 Telemetry Streaming visualization with Splunk

This white paper by Tolly demonstrates the end product use of iDRAC9 Telemetry Streaming data when used in conjunction with Splunk big data analysis solution, and focuses on key system elements and performance indicators provided by iDRAC9.

A Path to Virtualization at the Edge: Next-Generation Performance from the Dell PowerEdge XR Family of Servers

Get next-generation performance at the edge from the Dell PowerEdge XR family of servers Executive Summary Edge sensors and devices generate data on a massive scale. And much of the data is generated in rugged environments. Heavy machinery used in underground mining operations, for example, can be outfitted with smart ...

Save on power & license costs & reduce your carbon footprint by consolidating into Dell PowerEdge C6615 nodes

Powered by a 4th Generation AMD EPYC 8324P processor, the Dell node supports better online transaction processing (OLTP) performance and uses less power and fewer licenses than a legacy Supermicro server Organizations with limited data center space face pressure to make the most of hardware resources. That pressure increases as ...

Run Your In-House AI Chatbot on an AMD EPYC 9534 Processor-Powered Dell PowerEdge R6615 Server

Testing revealed that this server can be a great AI entry point for small organizations or departments, while upgrading to a CPU + GPU configuration could help them scale to support more users. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is today’s hottest topic, with decision-makers across industries wanting to take advantage of ...

Intel Xeon D Processor for the Edge

Summary Dell PowerEdge XR4000 is a compact multi-node server designed for the edge. This Tech Note discusses the Intel Xeon D processor, which powers the XR4000 server. These CPUs are unique, being primarily designed for edge deployments. New integrated technology that enables faster performance over the previous generation helps create ...

Unlocking Possibilities: Dell’s XE9680 with Intel Gaudi3 Accelerator

The demand for AI inferencing and training applications continues to surge, in line with IDC’s projection that IT infrastructure spending on AI semiconductors will reach $193.3 billion by the end of 2027, with a 5-year CAGR of 35.7%. Dell’s latest addition to their portfolio, the Dell XE9680 with Intel Gaudi ...

Dell PowerEdge R670 Delivers up to 42% improvement in SQL Server Test Results Using Intel® 6th Gen CPUs

Overview The testing outlined in this paper was conducted in conjunction with Intel®. The server hardware was provided by Dell Technologies, and the processors were provided by Intel®. All tests were conducted in Dell Labs with contributions from Intel® Performance Engineers. The introduction of new server technologies allows customers to ...

Executive summary: Stop a power zombie apocalypse using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

Power zombies, also known as ghost servers or comatose servers, can waste precious floor space, spike energy costs, and gnaw on staffing budgets. With Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager in place, your power zombie survival plan is in motion.

Dell PowerEdge R760xa Rack Server & Broadcom BCM57508 LAN Adapter: AI IPv6 RDMA Offload Performance

#224156 | October 2024 | Commissioned by Dell, Inc. The Bottom Line Dell PowerEdge R760xa & Broadcom BCM57508 Ethernet LAN Adapter with IPv6 RDMA Hardware Offload: Delivered 97% of theoretical maximum network throughput via offload; over 95Gbps on the 100GbE network Frees server resources for other tasks Is totally transparent ...

iDRAC10 Powering Smarter GPU Management in PowerEdge AI Servers

Summary Dell PowerEdge AI Servers, including the XE series, are purpose-built to accelerate high-demand workloads such as AI, ML, DL, and HPC. Proactive management of these systems, in particular the GPU component, is critical to ensure performance, maximize return on investment, and maintain availability. Embedded in every PowerEdge server, iDRAC ...

AMD EPYC for AI Data Preparation: Computer Vision

Accelerating CV Pipelines with Optimized Data Preparation As multi-modal AI workloads continue to expand across enterprises, the importance of fast and reliable image preprocessing has become the cornerstone of successful AI deployments. These core image processing tasks, including resizing, cropping, format conversion, and rotation, form the critical first stage of ...

Validation of SNAP I/O Performance on Dual-Socket PowerEdge Rack Servers

Summary Using Non-SNAP IO communication paths for one-NIC dual-socket servers increases UPI overhead, which slows down bandwidth and increases latency for CPU applications. Resolving this by adding another NIC card will increase solution TCO. The adoption of SNAP I/O allows a dual-socket server to bypass traversing the UPI lanes when ...

The Science Behind: Protect data at rest with negligible impact on NVMe disk performance metrics

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ Secure Enterprise Key Manager (SEKM) feature available on new Dell PowerEdge servers provides additional data security with full disk AES-256 encryption and external key management.

Dell PowerEdge 16G Server BIOS Settings for Optimized Performance: R7625, R6625, R7615, R6615, C6615

BIOS setting recommendations The following tables provide the BIOS setting recommendations for the latest generation of PowerEdge servers: Table 1. BIOS setting recommendations - System profile settings System setup screen Setting BIOS Defaults SPEC cpu2017 int rate (General Purpose Performance) SPEC cpu2017 fp rate SPEC cpu2017 int speed SPEC cpu2017 ...

Accelerating Intra-Host Data Movement with VMware PVRDMA on a Dell AMD PowerEdge Server

Summary PVRDMA is an innovative new technology to help accelerate intra-host data movement (i.e. data between VMs on a host). The ESXi driver takes advantage of DMA engines in the AMD Epyc 2nd and 3rd Generation of processors to provide significant performance improvements for this use case. Please contact Dell ...

Boost transactional database performance of VMware vSAN clusters with PowerEdge R640 servers

Replacing older servers can help you deliver a better customer experience and generate more revenue.

Reference Architecture: GPU Acceleration for Dell PowerEdge MX7000

Summary In the realm of digital innovation, GPU acceleration is pivotal for powering a broad spectrum of demanding applications, particularly AI. The Liqid SmartStack MX for Dell PowerEdge MX7000 enables the on demand allocation of enterprise-grade PCIe GPUs to Dell PowerEdge compute sleds. This integration provides a modular infrastructure that ...

Server Tuning for Success: Comparing Dell PowerEdge R770 BIOS Profiles for Modern Workloads

Overview Dell’s 17th Generation PowerEdge servers mark a significant leap in data center innovation, combining modular design, sustainability, and cutting-edge compute power. These servers are built to support demanding workloads such as AI inference, virtualization, and cloud-native applications. At the core of these systems are Intel Xeon 6 processors, available ...

Dell PowerEdge R770 Server Database Workload Benchmarking using TPROC-C

Executive Summary This benchmarking report presents a structured evaluation of Dell’s PowerEdge R770 and R760 servers under scalable, real-world workloads. The assessment was conducted using VMware-based virtualization environments running MySQL databases with HammerDB load generators, modeled on TPROC-C benchmark protocols. Key performance indicators such as Transactions Per Minute (TPM), New ...

World-Record Performance for Big Data and Analytics

Prowess research draws links from the benchmark strength of Dell™servers to real-world performance for big-data and analytics workloads.

Extract Insights on a Scalable and Security-Enabled Data Platform from Cloudera

Summary This joint paper outlines the key hardware considerations when configuring a data platform based on the most recent Dell’s 16 th Generation PowerEdge Server portfolio offerings. Market positioning Cloudera® Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud is a scalable data platform that allows data to be managed across its life cycle—from ...

Design Guide—Microsoft Hyper-V on PowerEdge 14G Servers and Unity Storage

This design guide describes the architecture, design, configuration, and sizing of a converged infrastructure for Microsoft Hyper-V with Dell EMC 14G rack servers, Unity storage, S-Series switches, and data protection products.

Comparison of MLPerf™ Inference v1.1 Results of Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 Servers with NVIDIA GPUs

Abstract This blog showcases the MLPerf Inference v1.1 performance results of Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 servers configured with NVIDIA A100 40 GB GPUs or with NVIDIA A30 GPUs. We compare the cost of a system with both types of GPUs to help you choose the best configuration for your AI ...

Dell PowerEdge Servers with AMD EPYC™: Scalable Virtualization with Record‑Setting Efficiency

Overview Virtualization workloads have become ubiquitous, serving vital roles for enterprise IT, service providers environments, and edge deployments. Simultaneously, private and hybrid cloud environments have become popular among organizations that want the on-demand scalability of the public cloud while maintaining greater control of their data. These environments need platforms that ...

DDR5 Memory Bandwidth for Next-Generation PowerEdge Servers Featuring 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors

Summary Dell Technologies has announced some exciting new servers featuring the latest 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors. These servers come in 1- and 2-socket versions in 1U and 2U form factors. Each socket supports up to 12 DIMMs at speeds of up to 4,800 MT/s. This document compares the memory ...

Dell PowerEdge R7725 Delivers World Record Virtualization Performance With VMmark 4.0 Results

Abstract Two Dell PowerEdge R7725 servers, equipped with AMD EPYC 5 th Generation processors, set an absolute world record in the VMmark 4.0 benchmark. VMmark 4.0.2 results The following world record was achieved using VMmark 4.0.2: Workload Perfomance Dell PowerEdge Server World Record VMmark 4.0.x 7.28 @ 8 tiles R7725 ...

PowerEdge XE9680 Rack Integration

Introduction Proper server rack integration is crucial for a data center's efficient and reliable operation. Optimizing space, power, and cooling can reduce downtime, simplify fleet management, improve serviceability, and lower overall costs. However, successful server rack integration requires careful planning, attention to detail, and expertise in server hardware, networking, and ...

Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840c Modular Infrastructure workload consolidation

Principled Technologies ran three workload tests simultaneously on a Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840c compute sled and individually on a legacy HPE solution: a VDI workload, an online transaction processing workload, and a virtual desktop infrastructure workload.

For Peak Performance, Bare Metal with NVMe® RAID Comes Out on Top

For Peak Performance, Bare Metal with NVMe ® RAID Comes Out on Top Prowess Consulting testing showed that bare-metal servers with NVMe RAID controllers offer an ideal solution for performance-hungry workloads, such as analytics, AI, ML, and HPC. Executive Summary It’s no surprise that bare-metal servers often provide the highest ...

The case for upgrading your servers to Dell PowerEdge R7625 servers powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors

Principled Technologies examined the performance improvements and cost savings associated with upgrading to the 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge R7625 for machine learning algorithms Overview Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of data organizations store and analyze. Between 2010 and 2020, the amount of data people and ...

The science behind the report: Upgrade transactional database performance with Dell PowerEdge R660 servers

This document describes what we tested, how we tested, and what we found. To learn how these facts translate into real-world benefits, read the report Upgrade transactional database performance with Dell PowerEdge R660 servers running VMware vSphere 8.0

Learn More about the Dell Technologies Report Card: Third-Party Evaluations

Summary In this curated collection, we immerse ourselves in the realm of Dell PowerEdge Servers, guided by third-party reviews. From rigorous assessments to real-world performance tests, we uncover the nuances that define Dell’s reputation. Whether you’re a tech aficionado, a potential buyer, or just intrigued, come along as we dissect ...

PowerEdge R760 with 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Processors TigerGraph Test Report

Summary Introducing new server technologies allows customers to deploy solutions that use the newly introduced functionality. It can also provide an opportunity for them to review their current infrastructure and determine whether the new technology can increase performance and efficiency. With this in mind, Dell Technologies and Intel recently conducted ...

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 12 (PERC 12) 16th Generation (16G) Server Performance vs PERC 11 & PERC 10

Learn more about Dell PowerEdge Raid Controller 12 (PERC12) and 16th Generation PowerEdge Servers

Run Llama 3 on Dell PowerEdge XE9680 and AMD MI300x with vLLM

In the rapidly evolving AI landscape, Meta AI Llama 3 stands out as a leading large language model (LLM), driving advancements across a variety of applications, from chatbots to text generation. Dell PowerEdge servers offer an ideal platform for deploying this sophisticated LLM, catering to the growing needs of AI-centric ...

Dell PowerEdge 17th Generation R6725 with AMD EPYC™ Processors & Emulex LPe38102 Secure HBA

Executive Summary 64G Gen 7 Fibre Channel interfaces in servers and in mission-critical storage allow for end-to-end 64G FC connectivity that can dramatically increase storage network throughput while reducing transaction processing times which would have direct benefits to application performance leading to better business outcomes. The Dell PowerEdge 17th Generation ...

Dell Management Portfolio vs. comparable tools from Supermicro

Dell management tools made server deployment and updates easier, offered more comprehensive security, and provided more robust infrastructure analytics

Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 servers and gain better OLTP and VDI performance

This Infographic show how PowerEdge R6515 servers with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors could lower licensing costs and also empower your business to explore Kubernetes with VMware Tanzu

The Dell PowerEdge C6615: Maximizing Value and Minimizing TCO for Dense Compute and Scale-out Workloads

In the ever-evolving landscape of data centers and IT infrastructure, meeting the demands of scale-out workloads is a continuous challenge. Organizations seek solutions that not only provide superior performance but also optimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Enter the new Dell PowerEdge C6615, a modular node designed to address these ...

AI Agents Revolutionizing Customer Service: Agentic Multi-Modal RAG Solution Powered by Dell PowerEdge™ XE9

| November 2024 | Introduction In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, customer service teams face the challenge of delivering exceptional support while managing increasing demands, with traditional methods of scaling operations leading to inefficiencies and bottlenecks in providing quality service. Metrum AI presents a multi-modal agentic-RAG-based customer service solution, leveraging ...

Improve sustainability through energy insights with Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.0

Read the methodology behind the study conducted by Principled Technologies.

Select Dell PowerEdge C6620 servers with Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers (PERC 12)

This new Dell PERC 12 solution delivered stronger Apache Cassandra distributed database performance than a legacy solution

Retrieval Augmented Generation IT Log Analysis on PowerEdge R760xa with Nvidia H100 Accelerators

GenAI IT Log Analyzer | Enable IT Teams to Chat with Infrastructure on Dell PowerEdge ™ R760xa Server with Nvidia H100 Data Center Tensor Core GPUs In this blog, Metrum AI presents a RAG solution on Dell PowerEdge R760xa Server with Nvidia H100 Data Center Tensor Core GPUs. The exponential ...

From Database and Virtualized Workloads to Backup: Dell PowerEdge R4715 and R5715 for SMB Realities

Although Dell's PowerEdge R4715 and R5715 are two separate products, they should be viewed as a configurable matrix. The matrix includes two chassis, four AMD EPYC 9005 Series CPU options, a wide range of storage configurations, and the full Dell management and support ecosystem. The combination is purpose-built for SMB ...

Accelerating Distributed Fine-Tuning with RoCE: Performance Benchmarks on Dell PowerEdge™ XE9680

In this blog, Metrum AI and Dell present fine-tuning performance results using a distributed system of two Dell PowerEdge XE9680 Servers equipped with Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs and high-performance Broadcom networking enabled with RoCE. | Introduction In our previous blog, Metrum AI introduced a high-performance multi-node training architecture utilizing ...

Dell PowerEdge HS5610 Performance

Summary Dell delivers technology optimization without the financial and operational burden of supporting extreme configurations. Dell PowerEdge cloud-scale servers are designed and optimized to give you the ability to scale with server configurations built for CSPs. The servers scale up to two sockets, 32 cores each, 1 TB of memory, ...

Visual Q&A Deployment Guide - Dell Generative AI with Intel | Enterprise RAG

Introduction Solution Introduction: Dell Generative AI Solutions with Intel | Enterprise RAG combines the power of Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators with Dell’s high-performance servers, storage, networking, professional services, and full stack of open-source software to offer a turnkey RAG solution that makes turning enterprise data ...

Performance Insights-Generative AI Performance Insights Dell XE 9680

Dell™ PowerEdge™ XE9680 with NVIDIA® H100 delivers >1.8x training & inference performance across GPT workloads and >3x with FP8 transformer optimizations enabled relative to NVIDIA® A100 system configurations.

Code Translation

A full-stack code translation application that converts code between programming languages using AI. The system integrates a FastAPI backend, alongside a modern React + Vite + Tailwind CSS frontend for an intuitive translation experience. The Code Translation application is a full-stack solution designed to translate source code between six programming ...

Comparing the Performance and VDI User Density of the Dell PowerEdge R750 with the Dell PowerEdge R760

Summary The new Dell PowerEdge R760 with 4th Generation Intel ® Xeon ® Processors, offers customers the increased scalability and performance necessary to improve operation of their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). The testing highlighted in this document was conducted (in November and December 2022 by Dell Engineers) to provide customers ...

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How to Integrate iDRAC9 Telemetry Data into the Splunk Platform

This white paper explains the steps required to set up Splunk to consume iDRAC9 telemetry. We will assume that you have Splunk set up, but if you do not, we will provide an abbreviated setup to assist getting a Splunk environment set up.

Maximizing Energy Efficiency at the Edge: A SPECpower Analysis of the Dell PowerEdge XR8720t

Overview The PowerEdge XR8720t sets a new standard for energy-efficient edge computing Two PowerEdge XR8720t Sleds in a Single XR8000 Chassis Single PowerEdgeXR8720t Sled Dell's PowerEdge XR8720t, powered by Intel Xeon® 6 SoC processors, marks a substantial generational advancement in power-efficient performance for edge environments, building on the foundation established ...

Whitepaper: Dell PowerEdge XE7745 RAG Evolution: Building Trust with Agentic RAG

Comprehensive analysis of RAG evolution, performance benchmarks, and deployment strategies, detailing Dell XE7745’s role in enabling accurate, transparent, and scalable AI systems for enterprise knowledge work.

Confidental Compute on PowerEdge Intel

Dell PowerEdge Enhanced Data Protection with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX)

Dell PowerEdge R770 Delivers World Record SPEC Power-Performance Results

Abstract The Dell PowerEdge R770, equipped with Intel® Xeon® E-core processors, set a new SPEC® world record. This record highlights Dell Technologies’ compute performance and efficient power consumption for data centers. The PowerEdge R770’s exceptional performance makes it an ideal server for high-performance and energy-conscious environments. This document summarizes the ...

Eliminate the need to schedule, track, and maintain SSL certificate renewals with new feature in iDRAC9 v4.0

This brief white paper, developed by Principled Technologies, reports that by automating SSL certificate enrollment and renewal with iDRAC9 v4.0 Datacenter license, administrators can save significant time and effort over manual approaches.

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Extracting Insights on a Scalable and Security-Enabled Data Platform from Cloudera

Summary This joint paper outlines a brief discussion on the key hardware considerations when configuring a successful deployment and recommends configurations based on the most recent PowerEdge Server portfolio offerings. Market positioning Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud is a scalable data platform that allows data to be managed across ...

Dell PowerEdge Server Cooling: Choose the Cooling Options That Match the Needs of You and Your Workloads

The Dell server portfolio powered by AMD EPYC enables multiple, flexible cooling options to suit your business-critical workloads, including AI. As compute-intensive activities such as artificial intelligence (AI) workloads have continued to grow in prominence worldwide, so have data center power requirements. While server energy consumption has grown steadily, the ...

Reduce Server Downtime with Dell™ Rebootless Firmware Update for Single or Multiple Drives in Parallel

Prowess Consulting evaluated the Integrated Dell™ Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) sideband direct rebootless and parallel firmware update capabilities on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and analyzed their effects on server maintenance cycles and IT staff

Dell Technologies MLPerf™ Inference v5.1 Results on the PowerEdge XE9680 Server with AMD GPUs

Dell Technologies, together with our partners AMD and MangoBoost, is proud to share outstanding results from the latest round of MLPerf™ Inference v5.1 benchmarks. These results highlight the performance and versatility of the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 server powered by AMD Instinct™ MI300X accelerators , delivering leadership performance for large language ...

PowerEdge “xs” Optimizations for Virtualization

Summary With the recent announcement of 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors Dell has announced 2 new PowerEdge models designed for virtualization. The new R650xs is a 1U design with support for up to 10 hard drives. Customers can choose between the following options: - (10) 2.5” SAS/SATA - (10) ...

OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware Virtual Center Overview

Summary OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware vCenter (OMEVV) offers extensive functionality to manage Dell PowerEdge server hardware and firmware from within VMware vCenter. Delivered as a simple virtual appliance, OpenManage Enterprise, with its integration for VMware vCenter plugin architecture, has no dependence on local software agent installations on the managed ...

Memory Bandwidth for New PowerEdge Servers is Significantly Improved with Ice Lake Architecture

Summary New PowerEdge servers fueled by 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors can support sixteen DIMMs per CPU and 3200 MT/s memory speeds. This DfD will compare memory bandwidth readings observed on new PowerEdge servers with Ice Lake CPU architecture against prior-gen PowerEdge servers with Cascade Lake CPU architecture. Ice ...

Dell PowerEdge R7725 and R6725 Deliver World Record performance in SPECjbb 2015

Abstract The Dell PowerEdge R7725 and R6725 featuring AMD® EPYC® 5 th Generation processors, achieved 12 world records in SPECjbb ® 2015, an industry standard Java server performance business benchmark. SPECjbb 2015 results The following world record results were achieved in SPECjbb 2015. This workload provides a performance metric for ...

MLPerf™ v1.1 Inference on Virtualized and Multi-Instance GPUs

Introduction Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) provide exceptional acceleration to power modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) workloads. GPU resource allocation and isolation are some of the key components that data scientists working in a shared environment use to run their DL experiments effectively. The need for this allocation ...

Accelerate Industry Transformation by Building Custom Models with Transfer Learning on Intel Xeon

Dell PowerEdge R760 Servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors offers unprecedented performance for applied AI real-world applications

Improve Operational Efficiency Through OME Server Drift Management

Summary As they say “drift happens” … Ideally, firmware versions and configuration settings such as for iDRAC and system BIOS set up across a server environment should remain consistent. Configuration drift refers to the phenomenon where server(s) configurations ‘drift’ toward an inconsistent state. This Direct from Development (DfD) tech note ...

Dell and Broadcom Deliver ScaleOut AI Platform for Industry

As part of Dell’s ongoing efforts to help make industry leading AI workflows available to their clients, this paper outlines a solution example that leverages scale-out hardware and software technologies to deliver a generative AI application.

Sweet 16 ways OpenManage helps customers to maximize their investment in PowerEdge

As we at Dell announce details of the new wave of PowerEdge servers (details here ), we want to highlight 16 examples of how the OpenManage portfolio of systems management software enhances our server range. Like I always say, where there are servers, there are server management requirements. The OpenManage ...

Get improved performance and new features from Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors

This infographic showcases key advantages seen on Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD Epyc 3rd generation of servers virtualized workloads.

Memory Bandwidth for New PowerEdge Servers is Significantly Improved with Ice Lake Architecture

Summary New PowerEdge servers fueled by 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors can support sixteen DIMMs per CPU and 3200 MT/s memory speeds. This DfD will compare memory bandwidth readings observed on new PowerEdge servers with Ice Lake CPU architecture against prior-gen PowerEdge servers with Cascade Lake CPU architecture. Ice ...

Next Generation PowerEdge Servers Implement Eco-Friendly DesignStrategies

Summary By increasing efficiencies, removing excess material, and standardizing design concepts, Dell EMC has continued to refine how to effectively contribute to the eco-friendly movement. This tech note highlights a few of the design strategies that have been implemented for PowerEdge servers that preserve resources and reduce the overall footprint ...

Mastering OpenManage Mobile: Server Management from your Mobile Device

This white paper highlights the capabilities of Dell OpenManage Mobile (OMM) version 5.0, such as iDRAC configuration, remote console access, and seamless integration with OpenManage Enterprise (OME).

Save energy, save money, and save the planet with OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

This infographic highlights some of the features of Power Manager & shows examples of real-world savings.

Abstract: Dell PowerEdge R750 Servers with PCIe Gen4 Data Center NVMe RAID Increase Microsoft SQL Server

Achieve faster results and expand database capacity with Dell PowerEdge R750 servers built with 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, fast, data-center-class NVM Express® (NVMe) drives, and the latest-generation Broadcom® RAID controllers.

Support more VMs with large databases and memory by adding Intel Optane DC persistent memory to the R940

Databases with large memory footprints can present challenges to organizations looking to upgrade server hardware. The goal is to support as many databases as possible on each new server to make the most of your investment, despite memory constraints.

Dell PowerEdge R6725 With AMD EPYC Accelerates RedHat OpenShift Virtualization

Executive Summary Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provide a scalable and efficient foundation for consolidating virtual machines and containerized applications on a unified platform. As organizations modernize their infrastructure, the ability to deliver high virtualization density, responsive performance, and efficient resource utilization has become critical to maximizing ...

Free up hands-on admin time with iDRAC9

This infographic, developed by Principled Technologies, reports that the latest version of iDRAC Enterprise and Datacenter licenses makes it easier to deploy and update PowerEdge servers by reducing time and effort for administrators.

Harden Your Server Cybersecurity With APEX AIOps Infrastructure Observability cybersecurity

Introduction It can take years for organizations to build a good reputation with their customers and a few minutes of a cybersecurity related incident to ruin it. Cybersecurity teams and server administrators must use every tool in their armory to harden infrastructure. This document is an overview of a number ...

The science behind: Optimize networking performance with the Dell PowerEdge R750

This document describes what we tested, how we tested, and what we found. To learn how these facts translate into real-world benefits, read the report Optimize networking performance with the Dell PowerEdge R750 featuring a modern 100Gb Broadcom NIC

Dell PowerEdge CSP Edition Servers Concept Architecture

The architecture of the Dell PowerEdge R670 and R770 CSP Edition servers is meticulously engineered to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability, catering to diverse business needs. These designs emphasize modularity and flexibility, allowing seamless

AMD EPYC for AI Data Preparation

Accelerating AI Data Preparation with CPUs The surge in generative AI (GenAI) applications, ranging from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to industry-specific AI agents, has amplified the need for efficient data preparation. These solutions rely on high-quality, structured data, often requiring synthetic data derived from existing enterprise datasets to improve performance ...

Discover life after SATA with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers equipped with value SAS SSDs from KIOXIA

A PowerEdge MX solution with RM5 Series value SAS SSDs processed more simulated customer orders, responded in less time, and provided better per-system value than the same solution with enterprise SATA SSDs.

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OpenManage Enterprise Boosts Data Center Staff Productivity

Summary Many necessary tasks performed by IT Admins aren’t complex, but are repetitive, time-consuming, and can deflect attention from other, long-term initiatives. The Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise systems management console delivers powerful automation capabilities that simplify the workflow of the IT Administrator, saving valuable time and reducing the potential for ...

Reach business insights sooner with PowerEdge R6515 servers, value SAS, and data center NVMe SSDs from KIOXIA

A configuration with value SAS and data center NVMe SSDs from KIOXIA provided better data analytics performance and lower costs per iteration than a configuration with enterprise SATA SSDs.

New OpenManage Enterprise Advanced+, Ready to Bring New Customer Benefits

Recently I heard a joke: How many developers does it take to change a light bulb …none, it's a hardware problem. Historically Dell has been perceived as a hardware vendor. This means that some customers still have not realized the many features and benefits that our Dell developed OpenManage Server ...

Dell PowerEdge XE7745: AI Powerhouse with serious CPU compute

Selecting the right GPU is crucial for deploying AI server infrastructure. The performance of training models, inferencing, and fine tuning is significantly influenced by the choice and number of available GPUs. However, CPU selection is also a critical factor in realizing the performance of AI solutions and can greatly impact ...

Fine-Tuning Enterprise LLMs at Scale with Dell™ PowerEdge™ & Broadcom

| Introduction A glimpse into the vast world of pre-training and fine-tuning. Large Language Models (LLMs) have taken the modern AI landscape by storm. With applications in natural language processing, content generation, question-answering systems, chatbots, and more, they have been a significant breakthrough in AI and demonstrated remarkable capabilities in ...

Dell PowerEdge XR Servers with 4th generation Intel Processors Enable 4.0 Industrial Transformation

Dell™ PowerEdge™ XR5610 servers, equipped with 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, are well suited to handle edge AI applications with both AI inference and training at the edge.

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What Is the Best Supply-Chain Solution to Verify Server Configurations?

Prowess evaluated supply-chain solutions from Dell Technologies and HPE to determine which tool delivers the most value to enterprise teams when verifying server hardware as it arrives from the manufacturer.

Enterprise Digital Twins: Transforming Modern Data Center Development and Operations

This Signal65 white paper introduces enterprise digital twins as a transformative tool for modern data centers. Using real-time telemetry from Dell PowerEdge servers, organizations can simulate, optimize, and automate operations with AI.

Unlock the Power of PowerEdge Servers for AI Workloads: Experience Up to 177% Performance Boost!

Executive summary As the digital revolution accelerates, the vision of an AI-powered future becomes increasingly tangible. Envision a world where AI comprehends and caters to our needs before we express them, where data centers pulsate at the heart of innovation, and where every industry is being reshaped by AI's transformative ...

Right-Sized Models for Agentic Inference on Xeon

Agentic AI increases demand for small, task-focused inference calls. This guide shows how to deploy validated open models, from 1B to 20B parameters, on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with Intel® Xeon® CPUs, AMX, and OPEA Enterprise Inference.

MLPerf Results for the PowerEdge XE7745 Server with NVIDIA H200 NVL GPUs

Introduction Dell Technologies recently submitted results to the MLPerf Inference v5.0 benchmark suite. The results provide information about the performance of Dell servers. This blog examines the performance of the Dell PowerEdge XE7745 server. Dell PowerEdge XE7745 server Designed to meet the demands of modern AI–powered enterprises, the PowerEdge XE7745 ...

Dell PowerEdge – iDRAC Automatic Certificate Enrollment

Summary In the latest generation of Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers, iDRAC v4.0, has implemented a new automated security feature to keep your iDRAC SSL/TLS certificates current. The iDRAC’s Automatic Certificate feature automatically assures SSL/TLS certificates are in place and up-to-date for both bare-metal and previously installed systems. Introduction Dell EMC ...

The science behind: Streamline server deployment and configuration: Dell OpenManage Enterprise with OMEVV

This document describes what we tested, how we tested, and what we found. To learn how these facts translate into real-world benefits, read the report Streamline server deployment and configuration: Dell OpenManage Enterprise with OMEVV

Memory Population Rules for Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors on PowerEdge Servers

This white paper describes what balanced memory means, why it is important, and how to populate memory properly to 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors for a balanced configuration.

Dell PowerEdge M7725: Integrated Rack Performance

The Dell PowerEdge M7725 is designed from the ground up for extreme compute density. It is ideal for maximizing per-tile compute in the datacenter, enabling near-exascale density. A 44OU Dell Integrated Rack System (IR7000) accommodates 60 Dell PowerEdge M7725 server nodes featuring AMD’s 5 th Gen EPYC processors, delivering up ...

Getting Started Guide: Firmware Updates on the Dell PowerEdge AI Servers

This paper explores the critical role of firmware updates for the Dell AI PowerEdge servers, emphasizing their impact on performance optimization, security enhancement, and feature enrichment.

Dell Technologies Direct Liquid Cooling Support for New PowerEdge Servers

Summary Liquid cooling is a very effective method of capturing heat commonly produced by semi- conductors, such as processors and memory, and transferring it to an isolated region to dissipate. For the release of the new Intel and AMD-based PowerEdge servers, Dell Technologies is offering a direct liquid cooling solution ...

R650 servers running vSphere 7.0 Update 2 can boost transactional database performance to become future-ready

This Principled Technologies paper discusses how in a VMware vSAN cluster, the latest-generation servers powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors completed more orders per minute than clusters of older servers.

Cloud Vs On Premise: Putting Leading AI Voice, Vision & Language Models to the Test in the Cloud & On Premise

| DEPLOYING LEADING AI MODELS ON PREMISE OR IN THE CLOUD The decision to deploy workloads either on premise or in the cloud, hinges on four pivotal factors: economics, latency, regulatory requirements, and fault tolerance. Some might distill these considerations into a more colloquial framework: the laws of economics, the ...

Technical Paper - Performance Comparison of Dell PowerEdge MX760c and MX750c Server Models

New Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and DDR5 memory make it possible for MX760c to be effective in training and inference tasks for small and medium-sized machine learning models (up to ten million parameters).

SolutionPack for iDRAC PowerEdge

Summary Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) provides comprehensive monitoring, reporting, and analysis for heterogeneous block, file, object, and virtualized storage environments. It enables you to visualize applications to storage dependencies, monitor, and analyze configurations and capacity growth. It has visibility into the environment’s physical and virtual relationships to ensure consistent ...

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Choosing the Most Appropriate Server SDD Interfaces: E3.S, NVMe, SAS, or SATA

Summary This document is a straightforward guide to help PowerEdge customers choose the most appropriate SSD type, based on their business needs and goals. As new generations of CPUs and servers are released, they frequently bring new technologies such as increased PCIe bus speeds and new storage formats, such as ...

Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 servers with VMware vSphere 7.0 and gain greater OLTP performance

This infographic compares the performance of the Dell PowerEdge R930 running VMware vSphere 6.7 and the Dell PowerEdge R940 and VMware vSphere 7.0.

NVIDIA A100 GPU Overview

Summary The A100 is the next-gen NVIDIA GPU that focuses on accelerating Training, HPC and Inference workloads. The performance gains over the V100, along with various new features, show that this new GPU model has much to offer for server data centers. This DfD will discuss the general improvements to ...

Autonomous Infrastructure Operations on Dell PowerEdge - DTW 2026

Policy-governed, multi-agent infrastructure operations on Dell PowerEdge™ R7725 server with AMD Instinct™ MI350P PCIe cards, AMD EPYC™ processors, Dell PowerSwitch™ networking, and Metrum AI Infra Agents: monitoring, reasoning, and remediation that run on-premises. Autonomous drone swarm inspecting live server racks at Dell Technologies World 2026 (concept rendering) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The ...

Announcing iDRAC Credential Management in OpenManage Enterprise 4.0

Summary Dell OpenManage Enterprise is an infrastructure management console that offers a full lifecycle management solution for Dell PowerEdge Servers and provides many other features. Since its initial release, OpenManage Enterprise (or OME for short) has continued to add new features with every release. Among the list of new features, ...

Cut server infrastructure costs over five years with the Dell PowerEdge R7715

A four-node cluster of these servers with AMD EPYC 9355P processors offers improved efficiency and consolidation potential at a lower five-year TCO vs. five-year-old servers As organizations evaluate infrastructure upgrades amid expiring hardware warranties and shifting VMware® licensing models, TCO becomes a critical consideration. Dell™ PowerEdge™ R7715 servers with AMD ...

Intelligent LLM Routing: The Right Model for Every Request

How NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard turns a single expensive frontier model into a smart, multi-tier “system of models” — validated on a Dell PowerEdge XE9780LAP server with up to 62.7% lower latency and 171% higher throughput (sequential; up to 64.1% lower latency and 182% higher throughput in parallel), validated at 1,000-prompt ...

XR4000: Don’t be Afraid of the Edge!

Halloween is just around the corner, and we have been seeing all sorts of innovative decorations around our neighborhood. The malls and shops are filled with cool gadgets to get the best scare out of you. Well, everything is getting an upgrade with technology, so why not Halloween? Are you ...

Fine-tuning Llama 3 Using torchtune: A New PyTorch-native Library on the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 Server

Fine-tuning is a machine learning process in which a pretrained model is further adjusted for a specific task or dataset. Instead of training a model from scratch, fine-tuning starts with an existing foundational model (usually pretrained on a large dataset) and adapts it to perform well on a narrower, domain-specific ...

Benchmarking NVIDIA GPU Throughput for LLMs and Understanding GPU Configuration Choices in the AI Space

Executive summary This document presents a detailed comparative analysis of GPU throughput for LLMs, highlighting key performance metrics across a range of GPUs at varying levels of user concurrency. It introduces essential AI and GPU terminology, providing readers with the foundational understanding necessary for making informed decisions about GPU configurations ...

PERC Hardware RAID Evolution Infographic

Dell and EQTY: Verifiable Compute for Trusted AI

This white paper introduces Verifiable Compute, the first hardware-based solution designed to govern and audit AI workflows.

XR8000 – Unique Sled Design

Summary The Dell PowerEdge XR8000 is a compact multi-node server designed for the edge and telecom. This DfD describes the unique form factor with chassis and sleds for the deployment of the XR8000. Overview The Dell PowerEdge XR8000 is a rugged multi-node edge server with Intel 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® ...

PowerEdge R670 & R770 SPECjbb/SPECPU Overview

Summary The Dell PowerEdge R770 expands the range of your datacenter with powerful, flexible, and efficient infrastructure solutions that simplify management while maximizing datacenter utilization. Equipped with IDRAC10’s dedicated security processor, the R770 is a high-performance server for a variety of workloads. The purpose of this document is to highlight ...

Memory Population Rules for 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors on PowerEdge Servers

This white paper is designed to educate PowerEdge customers on what balanced memory means, why it is important and how to properly populate memory to 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors for a balanced configuration.

Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers with AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators: GenAI with Llama 3.1 405B LLMs

As generative AI (GenAI) adoption continues, organizations are increasingly using their specific in-house data in conjunction with large language models (LLMs) to provide AI chatbots to meet customer needs. In a recent Gartner poll, 38% of executives cited customer experience as the primary purpose for using GenAI [1]—which means you ...

Dell Secured Component Verification (SCV) - Expand Supply Chain Security

The Dell Technologies Secured Component Verification (SCV) tool has been identified as the best supply-chain solution to verify server configurations.

Dell 15G PowerEdge Acoustical Experience and Dependencies

Acoustical experience for 15G PowerEdge as functions of configurations and operating modes is provided.

Enable security features w/o impact to OLTP performance for Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC processors

Get comparable online transaction processing (OLTP) performance with or without enabling AMD Secure Memory Encryption and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Encrypted State Overview Security is a critical concern for any business with sensitive data to protect—which is pretty much every business. And, the larger the business and more sensitive ...

Dell Technologies Supply Chain Security: Secured Component Verification for PowerEdge

Summary A core element of Dell Technologies’ security- enabled supply chain program is Secured Component Verification (SCV), now an integral part of the entire PowerEdge Server line. SCV enables end-users to validate that systems delivered are secure, that components and configurations set at time of manufacture conform to the specifications ...

Dell PowerEdge R660xs: Maximize VDI density

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) administrators endeavor to deliver the best remote-user experience while getting the most from data center resources. Dell™ PowerEdge™ xs servers have an open vent pattern for optimal airflow and are, according to Dell, specifically tuned for virtualization workloads. These models also have fewer DIMM slots than ...

Powering your Elasticsearch Solution with Dell PowerEdge Servers and Intel® 3rd Generation Xeon® Processors

Summary This joint paper outlines a brief discussion on the key hardware considerations when configuring a successful deployment and recommends configurations based on Dell 15th Generation PowerEdge servers. Elasticsearch is a distributed, open-source search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured. This ...

Dell PowerEdge R760 Performance with Broadcom Emulex LPe36002

Executive Summary: New-generation technology continually enhances performance, yet there are instances when the convergence of multiple technological advancements yields a disproportionately advantageous outcome. This scenario is vividly exemplified when the Dell PowerEdge R760 Rack Server is synergistically paired with the Broadcom Emulex LPe36002 64G Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA). ...

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Promising MLPerf™ Inference 3.1 Performance of Dell PowerEdge XE8640 and XE9640 Servers with NVIDIA H100 GPUs

Abstract The recent release of MLPerf Inference v3.1 showcased the latest performance results from Dell's new PowerEdge XE8640 and PowerEdge XE9640 servers, and another submission from the PowerEdge R760xa server. The data underscores the outstanding performance of PowerEdge servers. These benchmarks illustrate the surging demand for compute power, with PowerEdge ...

Dell PowerEdge R6715 Delivers World Record SPECstorage Performance

Abstract The Dell PowerEdge R6715, equipped with AMD® EPYC® 5th Generation processors, achieved two world records in storage performance in the SPECstorage® Solution 2020 benchmark for Q4 of 2024, underscoring Dell Technologies’ powerful storage performance. The exceptional results of the AMD® EPYC® CPUs featured in the Dell PowerEdge R6715 illustrate ...

B200 vs B300: When Memory Capacity Matters for Frontier-Scale LLM Inference

Abstract The following is a frontier-scale study of the NVIDIA B200 (Dell PowerEdge XE9780) and B300 Blackwell Ultra (Dell PowerEdge XE9780L), measured with NVIDIA AIPerf on vLLM, showing when Blackwell Ultra’s added memory capacity justifies its premium and when B200 is the better buy. Executive summary NVIDIA B200 and B300 ...

Dell PowerEdge R740 vs R770: Performance, Efficiency, and Consolidation Analysis

This whitepaper compares Dell PowerEdge R740 and R770 servers using SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmark data, demonstrating 17th generation platforms deliver up to 5.4x throughput, 1.8x efficiency, and enable 4-6 server consolidation of a 20-node R740 fleet.

OpenManage Enterprise built-in Kafka interface streaming telemetry to Grafana and beyond

Summary OpenManage Enterprise, commonly known as OME, is Dell’s one-to-many life cycle management console for PowerEdge servers. Release 4.6 of OME added integrated support for data export to Kafka. OME can publish device inventory, health status, alert events, server metrics, and audit log records to Apache Kafka using structured, machine-readable ...

Dell EMC Servers Offer Excellent Deep Learning Performance with the MLPerf™ Training v1.1 Benchmark

Overview Dell Technologies has submitted results to the MLPerf Training benchmarking suite for the fifth round. This blog provides an overview of our submissions for the latest version, v1.1. Submission results indicate that different Dell EMC servers (Dell EMC DSS8440, PowerEdge R750xa, and PowerEdge XE8545 servers) offer promising performance for ...

Harness Increased Performance, Efficiency, and Lower TCO with Dell PowerEdge Powered by AMD

Key performance indicators (KPIs) show that a hardware refresh with the latest-generation Dell PowerEdge servers and AMD EPYC ™ processors can help enterprises improve the performance, efficiency, and security of their server infrastructures. Executive Summary Forrester Consulting reports that data centers that refresh their servers at least every three years ...

Gen on Gen SQL Performance within MX vSAN Workloads

These new servers achieved up to 36.1 percent more OLTP database work than current-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge MX servers, while also lowering application response time.

PowerEdge R770 MySQL HammerDB Overview

The new Dell PowerEdge R770 expands the range of your datacenter with powerful, flexible, and efficient infrastructure solutions that simplify management while maximizing datacenter utilization. Equipped with an IDRAC10 dedicated security processor, the PowerEdge R670 and R770 are high performance servers for a variety of workloads. The purpose of this ...

Dell PowerEdge XE9680 Server and AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs Deliver Superior MLPerf™ Training v5.0 Performance

Overview Dell Technologies recently submitted results to the MLPerf Training v5.0 benchmarking suite. The MLPerf Training submission is a comprehensive benchmarking suite designed to evaluate the performance of AI/ML hardware and software. It provides a standardized set of challenging workloads that mimic real-life Deep Learning tasks such as large language ...

PTP and SyncE on Dell Next-Generation Servers

Summary The telecom industry is on a journey of transformation, making pitstops to disaggregate hardware and software, virtualize networks, and introduce cloudification across RAN and core domains. The introduction of 5G and ORAN has accelerated the transformation, and we now see telecom becoming a universal phenomenon and touching all aspects ...

Dell PowerEdge: Getting Started with Redfish Ansible Modules

This white paper provides guidelines for getting started with Ansible and Redfish Ansible modules for PowerEdge systems. Techniques, practices, and the Ansible foundation described in this paper apply to other Dell Ansible modules and Ansible in general.

Navigating the New iDRAC10 Interface: A User’s Guide

Summary The latest release of iDRAC10 introduces a completely redesigned Graphical User Interface (GUI) that delivers a more intuitive, efficient, and visually engaging user experience. This update reflects Dell Technologies’ commitment to providing a unified look and feel across all Dell applications. The new GUI streamlines navigation, improves accessibility, and ...

Dell PowerEdge 17G Server BIOS Settings for Optimized Performance: R7725, R6725, R7715, R6715

BIOS setting recommendations The following tables provide the BIOS setting recommendations for the latest generation of PowerEdge servers: Table 1 . BIOS setting recommendations – System profile settings System setup screen Setting BIOS Defaults SPEC cpu2017 int rate SPEC cpu2017 fp rate SPEC cpu2017 int speed SPEC cpu2017 fp speed ...

Dell PowerEdge Servers: New PSU Layout Delivers Improved Airflow and PCIe Feature Set

Summary The next generation of PowerEdge servers brings a new Power Supply layout that allows for improved system cooling and helps enable support for Gen4 PCIe cards. Purchase with confidence, knowing that these system improvements help ensure that the next generation PowerEdge server continues to deliver best-in- class features. Split ...

Performance of the Dell PowerEdge R750xa Server for MLPerf™ Inference v2.0

Abstract Dell Technologies recently submitted results to the MLPerf Inference v2.0 benchmark suite. The results provide information about the performance of Dell servers. This blog takes a closer look at the Dell PowerEdge R750xa server and its performance for MLPerf Inference v1.1 and v2.0 . We compare the v1.1 results ...

Dell PowerEdge XR Edge AI Smart City Solution

Dell PowerEdge XR Servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon scalable processors offer unprecedented performance for video AI based applications in cities and more.

Create useful data center health visualizations with Dell iDRAC Telemetry Reference toolset and Elastic Stack

This paper discusses the installation of an Elastic Stack with Kibana on an AMD platform, and showcases visualizations that can help with data analytics run on iDRAC telemetry information ingested into the ELK stack using the iDRAC Telemetry Reference toolset.

Get MongoDB database-driven insights for less with R6515 servers powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 75F3 processors

This white paper showcases the improvements for data analytics using a YCSB workload on a noSQL MongoDB database. Score is compared between an AMD EPYC 2nd generation processor to an AMD EPYC 3rd generation processor.

Improve Storage Performance for Data-Intensive Workloads on Dell PowerEdge R760 Servers with Dell PERC 12

Improve Storage Performance by More than 10x for Data-Intensive Workloads on Dell ™ PowerEdge ™ R760 Servers with Dell ™ PowerEdge RAID Controller 12 (PERC 12) Prowess Consulting testing demonstrated that next-generation PowerEdge servers with the latest NVM Express ® (NVMe ® ) RAID controllers can accelerate business workloads. Executive ...

Principled Technologies Report: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX Streamlines routine tasks compared to HPE Synergy

Dell EMC PowerEdge MX streamlined routine tasks including deployment, firmware updates, server migration, and storage provisioning. Compared to HPE Synergy, the MX solution required 89.4 percent less admin time and fewer steps to deploy multiple server nodes.

The Advantages of Configuring a PowerEdge Server with Agnostic SSD Drives

Summary Dell EMC gives customers the option to purchase an Agnostic (Dell Branded), SSD drive with their PowerEdge server configuration. Although some customers prefer specific SSD vendors, most PowerEdge owners do not prefer one brand name over another, especially when they benefit from picking agnostic offerings This DfD debriefs why ...

Expansion of VCF with a new vSAN Workload cluster on MX750c

This document explains how to add next-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge MX servers to your VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure with ease.

Infographic - Scaling AI with Dell PowerEdge XE9680 and NVIDIA H200

Dell PowerEdge XE9680 delivers 93%+ scaling efficiency, 94% GPU utilization, and 19–23% TCO savings across 64 NVIDIA H200 GPUs for enterprise AI workloads.

Deploy HCI with Ease on VMware vSAN Ready Nodes™

Summary Hyperconverged infrastructure is changing the way that IT organizations deliver resources to their users. In this short joint reference document with Dell Technologies and Intel we discuss the critical hardware components needed to successfully deploy vSAN. The information in this publication is provided as is. Dell Inc. makes no ...

Accelerate Multi-node Training with Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with Intel Gaudi 3 Accelerators and RoCE

In this blog, Metrum AI and Dell introduce a solution architecture for multi-node training using a distributed system of Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers equipped with Intel Gaudi 3 accelerators and Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerator NICs enabled with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). Training large language models (LLMs) requires significant ...

Handle more Oracle transactions and support more VMs with the Dell PowerEdge R7625 featuring PERC 12

We compared the Oracle Database OLTP performance of two servers: a new Dell™ PowerEdge™ R7625 with PERC 12 and an older HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 with Smart Array P440ar Controller.

iDRAC10 Connection View: Server and Networking Switch Connectivity Visibility

This technical paper provides details of Dell iDRAC support for automatic intelligent network link discovery between servers network cards including iDRAC to switches using LLDP.

PowerEdge Servers and Deep Learning Domains: The Impact of Scaling Accelerators

Summary With deep learning principles becoming a widely accepted practice, customers are keen to understand how to select the most optimized server, based on GPU count, to accommodate varying machine and deep learning workloads. This tech note delivers test results that portray how scaling NVIDIA GPU’s on PowerEdge server configurations ...

Anatomy of a Trusted Device

Learn what makes Dell commercial PCs on the Intel vPro® platform the world’s most secure commercial PCs

Run more data analysis more quickly using Dell PowerEdge R760 servers

In our tests, the latest-generation Dell™ PowerEdge™ R760 server, powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, performed more data analysis in less time than two older models

Enable security features with no impact to OLTP performance with Dell PowerEdge R7625 servers

Get comparable online transaction processing (OLTP) performance with or without enabling AMD Secure Memory Encryption and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Encrypted State

Deep Learning Performance with MLPerf Inference v0.7 Benchmark

Summary MLPerf is a benchmarking suite that measures the performance of Machine Learning (ML) workloads. It focuses on the most important aspects of the ML life cycle: Training —The MLPerf training benchmark suite measures how fast a system can train ML models. Inference —The MLPerf inference benchmark measures how fast ...

PowerEdge R770 MongoDB Overview

Summary The new Dell PowerEdge R770 expands the range of your datacenter with powerful, flexible, and efficient infrastructure solutions that simplify management while maximizing datacenter utilization. Equipped with IDRAC10’s dedicated security processor, the Dell PowerEdge R770 is a high-performance server for a variety of workloads. The purpose of this document ...

Benefits and Comparison of Intel® Xeon® Processors with E-Cores, P-Cores, and AP-Cores for Select Workloads

This report evaluates the benefits of workload targeting and distribution across different Intel Xeon processor types, namely Efficient-cores (E-cores), Performance-cores (P-cores), and Advanced Performance–cores (AP-cores). Executive Summary As modern data centers expand to support AI and other data‑driven services, it’s increasingly critical to select the right processor architecture. Intel Xeon ...

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Dell PowerEdge R760 servers with 4th gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors offers unprecedented performance

Dell Technologies™ commissioned Scalers AI™ to evaluate the performance of Dell™ PowerEdge™ R760 with 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors perform in our applied AI application.

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Agentic AI for Multi-Layer URL Defense in Carrier Messaging with Dell PowerEdge XE7745 and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000

Agentic AI for Multi-Layer URL Defense in Carrier Messaging with Dell PowerEdge™ XE7745 Server and NVIDIA RTX™ PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. A Carrier Architecture Reimagined to Address Malicious Messages, Powered by a two-node Dell PowerEdge™ XE7745 Rack Server Configuration with NVIDIA RTX™ PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, ...

Dell Open Server Manager Solution Brief

Introducing Dell Open Server Manager built on OpenBMC™ enabling open, embedded systems management on select Dell PowerEdge cloud scale servers.

Edge Computing for Retail Reference Architecture using PowerEdge XE 2420 Server

This document outlines Reference Architecture that utilizes capabilities of the Dell EMC PowerEdge XE (new)2420 for handling significant AI workloads related to running an edge-computing powered service for retail needs in a secure environment.

Deploying Enterprise Inference on RHEL OpenShift and Dell PowerEdge

Intel AI for Enterprise Inference on Dell™ PowerEdge™: Automated bare-metal provisioning through iDRAC, a guided install on RHEL 9.6, and brownfield deployment onto OpenShift.

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Powering your Elasticsearch Solution with Dell PowerEdge Servers and Intel® 4th Generation Xeon® Processors

Summary This joint paper outlines a brief discussion on the key hardware considerations when configuring a successful deployment and recommends configurations based on Dell 16th Generation PowerEdge servers. Elasticsearch is a distributed, open-source search and analytics engine for all types of data including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured. This ...

Improved PowerEdge Server Thermal Capability with Smart Flow

Introduction New PowerEdge Smart Flow chassis options increase airflow to support the highest core count CPUs and DDR5 in an air-cooled environment within current IT infrastructure. What is Smart Flow? One way to increase the thermal capacity of an air-cooled server is to increase airflow that exhausts heat generated by ...

NVMe, SAS, and SATA

Summary PowerEdge customers optimize their server configurations based on their applications and business needs. Multiple factors must be taken into consideration to make an informed decision, such as workload, budget, scale, and even roadmap. Still, when all of the factors are understood, it can be difficult to discern whether the ...

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iDRAC Unleashed: 10 Epic Features for Power Users

Integrated Dell remote access controller (iDRAC) is the ultimate foundation for management of Dell PowerEdge servers.

The science behind the report: Cut server migration times by upgrading to Dell PowerEdge MX

This document describes what we tested, how we tested, and what we found. To learn how these facts translate into real-world benefits, read the report Cut server migration times by upgrading to Dell PowerEdge MX from legacy Cisco UCS.

Run compute-intensive Apache Hadoop big data workloads faster with Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 servers

A Hadoop cluster of PowerEdge R640 servers powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors completes three compute-heavy big data workloads in less time than previous-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 servers by processing more data per second.

Driving AI Innovation: Dell Technologies at the Forefront of MLPerf Inference v6.0

The AI landscape is moving at a rapid pace, but performance without validation is just a promise. That is where MLPerf comes in. As the industry’s gold standard for AI benchmarking, MLPerf provides a level playing field for hardware and software providers to demonstrate real-world performance using standardized workloads. For ...

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The Science behind: Upgrade to the PowerEdge R7625 featuring PERC 12 and get better Oracle Performance

This document describes what we tested, how we tested, and what we found. To learn how these facts translate into real-world benefits, read the report Get better Oracle Database performance when you upgrade to the Dell PowerEdge R7625 featuring the PowerEdge

Gen on Gen SQL Performance within MX vSAN Workloads

These new servers achieved up to 36.1 percent more OLTP database work than current-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge MX servers, while also lowering application response time.

Boost throughput for big data workloads with Dell R750 servers featuring PowerEdge RAID Controllers

We found that in both metrics we tested time to complete a workload and throughput while completing that workload the R750 server featuring the Dell PERC 11 RAID controller offered stronger performance, finishing the workload faster with higher throughput

Empowering Enterprises with Generative AI: How Does MLPerf™ Help Support Requirements?

Generative AI has developed into a critical workload in the deep learning ecosystem. In the generative AI world, 2023 has been a year of explosive growth as generative AI continues to make huge progress by improving the quality and ease of access to these ecosystems. With the advent of ChatGPT, ...

AI-Ready Efficiency and TCO Savings

Research from Prowess Consulting shows that you can modernize server infrastructures with Dell PowerEdge servers featuring 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors to achieve high efficiency, scalability, and security. Executive Summary AI is transforming IT, demanding more from infrastructure—and IT budgets—every day. Prowess Consulting’s research demonstrates that the latest Dell PowerEdge ...

Dell Technologies Reference Design for Retail Edge with Centerity CSM²

This document describes the reference design and monitoring for Retail Edge managed by Centerity on Dell PowerEdge XR servers.

Gain more k-means clustering data analysis performance with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 75F3-powered R6525 servers

This white paper showcases the improvements for data analytics using SparkBench while going from an AMD Epyc 2nd generation processor to an AMD Epyc 3rd Generation processor.

Dell PowerEdge Servers With AMD EPYC Processors Deliver Savings for Virtualized Environments

Abstract: Organizations are facing mounting pressure to modernize their IT infrastructures while controlling the costs associated with today’s complex environments. With so many enterprises heavily invested in VMware ecosystems, optimizing those environments has become vital to operational efficiency and cost management. Dell PowerEdge servers powered by AMD EPYC processors can ...

R740xd servers with Intel Optane DC persistent memory handle more than with NAND flash NVMe or SATA SSDs

Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers with Intel Optane DC persistent memory handle more transactions per minute than configurations with NAND flash NVMe drives or SATA SSDs.

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Improved iDRAC9 Security using TLS 1.3 over HTTPS on Dell PowerEdge Servers

Summary The iDRAC is designed for secure local and remote server management and offers industry-leading security features. iDRAC9 5.10.00.00 supports TLS 1.3 over HTTPS, to encrypt data and authenticate connections for moving data over the internet. TLS 1.3 uses advanced encryption algorithms, fewer cipher suites, and more secure handshakes. Features ...

Securing the Foundation First: Dell PowerEdge and the Case for Dual Signing

Quantum computing threatens current public-key cryptography. This paper explains the risk and describes Dell’s phased approach using PowerEdge, leveraging dual-signed firmware and BIOS to help enterprises begin practical post-quantum migration planning.

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Are you ready for GenAI? You will be when you harness the power of Dell and Intel

Generative Artificial Intelligence, or GenAI, has moved into mainstream computing at lightning speed and is already causing a significant impact on society at large. Consumer-friendly AI engines like ChatGPT have quickly grabbed our collective cultural attention…and for good reason. However, the real power of GenAI is in its promise at ...

The science behind: R750 server featuring a modern 100Gb Broadcom 57508 NIC achieved higher bandwidth in iPerf

This describes what we tested, how we tested, and what we found. To learn how these facts translate into real-world benefits, read the report Dell PowerEdge R750 server featuring a modern 100Gb Broadcom 57508 NIC achieved higher bandwidth in iPerf tests

Research Abstract: A Path to Virtualization at the Edge

This research abstract document shows how to pick the right edge-computing option from the Dell PowerEdge XR family of servers.

Migrating OMIVV to OMEVV Made Simple

Why did the virtual machine go on a diet? Because it had too many bytes and needed to lose some weight. Recently the Dell OpenManage portfolio also went on a slight diet, consolidating OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) into a new plug-in for OpenManage Enterprise. The new solution, OpenManage ...

Dell Technologies Dell PowerEdge XR4000 Edge Server Competitive Machine Learning (ML) Performance

Dell Technologies commissioned Tolly to evaluate the ML performance of Dell’s XR4000 using the industry standard MLPerf™ Inference v2.0 benchmarking suite

Driving Advanced Graph Analytics with TigerGraph on Next Gen PE Servers and 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Processors

Summary This joint paper describes the key hardware considerations when configuring a successful Tigergraph database deployment and recommends configurations based on the next generation Dell PowerEdge Server portfolio offerings. TigerGraph helps make graph technology more accessible. TigerGraph DB is democratizing the adoption of advanced analytics with Intel’s 4th Generation Intel ...

Six Years of Tower Servers: Exceptional Database Performance with PowerEdge T560

Transformation is an intrinsic part of the technological world, just as seasons transition and leaves change hue during fall. In the six years since the launch of 14th Generation PowerEdge servers, the tower servers have evolved greatly with no shortage of performance gains, feature improvements, and expanding workload capabilities. To ...

MLPerf Inference v3.1: Results using Dell Servers with Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Accelerators

The MLPerf Inference v3.1 results are out and Dell Technologies and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. have again produced impressive inference results on a breadth of models, this time using 2x Qualcomm® Cloud AI 100 Standard accelerators on a Dell XR4520c server.

Multi Vector Cooling 2.0 for Next-Generation PowerEdge Servers

Summary Next-generation PowerEdge servers (15G) support the latest compute, storage and networking technologies with the help of innovation in hardware and thermal controls design that builds on the foundations of the previous-generation (14G) MVC 1.0 solution. This DfD outlines the new MVC 2.0 innovations on both the hardware thermal design ...

Dell Integrated Rack Scalable Systems—Simplified, Reliable & Efficient Liquid Cooling for Modern Data Centers

Dell's Integrated Rack Scalable Systems (IRSS) are revolutionizing data center operations with rapid and simplified deployment of fully integrated, plug-and-play rack-scale infrastructure for demanding AI and HPC workloads. Offering a single point of contact for support, IRSS delivers future-ready solutions that scale with your organization’s evolving needs. This whitepaper provides ...

One PowerEdge R750 with Kubernetes containers supported up to 47,150 web application users across 11 instances

With a VMware vSphere and VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid environment, the PowerEdge R750 server supported thousands of Weathervane users while meeting quality of service (QoS) requirements.

Behind the Report: Newer Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers Significantly Increase Microsoft SQL Server Performance

For this testing, Prowess engineers used HammerDB on virtual machines (VMs) distributed across two Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 and Dell EMC PowerEdge C6520 server clusters.

Overview of MLPerf™ Inference v2.0 Results on Dell Servers

Dell Technologies has been an active participant in the MLCommons™ Inference benchmark submission since day one. We have completed five rounds of inference submission. This blog provides an overview of the latest results of MLPerf Inference v2.0 closed data center, closed data center power, closed edge, and closed edge power ...

Top 3 Networking Utilities for PowerEdge Servers with 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

Summary The latest Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® scalable processors will need to be reinforced with ample networking utilities to ensure that maximum performance is achieved. This DfD will list the top three networking utilities customers can consider implementing to ensure their networking bandwidth and speeds ...

PowerEdge R760 HiBench- K-Means test report

Summary Companies should always be looking for ways to better serve their customers. Customers are overwhelmed with information and often make buying decisions based on existing relationships. Companies looking to expand their relationships with customers can benefit from combining Machine Learning technologies with Data Mining to better understand their customers’ ...

Achieve Faster Analytics Performance on Dell PowerEdge R7625 Servers with AMD EPYC 9654 Processors

Based on our results, seven legacy HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers could consolidate onto one Dell ™ PowerEdge ™ R7625. Effective analytics enable organizations to make swift, data-driven decisions; respond to customer needs with agility; and identify competitive opportunities. However, these workloads can demand significant computational resources, leading to high ...

Keep remote desktop power users productive with PowerEdge R840 servers powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon CPUs

This white paper describes how Dell PowerEdge R840 servers can support many VDI power users while also delivering acceptable session response times.

Accelerating High-Performance Computing with Dell PowerEdge XE9680: A Look at HPL Performance

Executive Summary The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 is a high-performance server designed and optimized to enable uncompromising performance for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads. Dell PowerEdge is launching our innovative 8-way GPU platform with advanced features and capabilities. 8x NVIDIA H100 80GB 700W SXM GPUs or 8x NVIDIA ...

Performance of Dell Servers Running with NVIDIA Accelerators on MLPerf™ Training v2.0

This white paper describes the successful submission, which is the sixth round of submission, to MLPerf Training v2.0 by Dell Technologies. It provides an overview and highlights the performance of different servers that were in the submission.

Choose PowerEdge servers powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors for better performance on multiple workloads

This infographic showcases key advantages seen on Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD Epyc 3rd generation of servers running various workloads.

Dell Technologies Advances AI Training Performance with MLPerf Training v6.0

Dell Technologies earned 30 first-place results in MLPerf Training v6.0—across four workloads, ten platform configurations, and both NVIDIA and AMD accelerator ecosystems. On the XE9712 with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, Llama 3.1 8B training time dropped from 123.7 minutes on a single node to 12.7 minutes at 16 nodes: nearly 10x ...

Consolidate three legacy servers onto one PowerEdge R940 with 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors

The 3U, four-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors outperformed a legacy Dell EMC PowerEdge R920 by handling over 3.14 times the TPM on a mission-critical Oracle Database workload.

Dell Servers Versus HPE Servers: A Price-Performance Comparison

Analysis conducted by Prowess Consulting finds that Dell™ PowerEdge™ R650xs servers can provide better overall value and relative performance, compared to HPE® ProLiant® DL360 Gen10 Plus servers.

Key cooling strategies for AI deployments

This whitepaper describes different heat collection technologies including Dell’s industry-first PowerCool Enclosed Rear Door Heat Exchanger (eRDHx).

Dell EMC PowerEdge R750xa Server for Inference on AI Applications

Introduction to the PowerEdge R750xa server for inference on AI applications Dell Technologies HPC & AI Innovation Lab has submitted results for the Dell EMC PowerEdge R750xa server to MLPerf™ Inference v1.1, the latest round from MLCommons™, for data center on-premises benchmarks. Based on these results submitted for data center ...

Custom Access Roles with OpenManage Enterprise

Security is now more crucial than ever. Failing to implement adequate protective measures can cause severe operational disruptions, jeopardizing your organization's reputation. The release of OpenManage Enterprise version 4.3.1 adds the ability to create custom roles, granting access to specified functionality for certain users only. This feature enhances the existing ...

PowerEdge R760 SAP HANA Performance - Analyst Paper

This document describes how new Dell PowerEdge servers outperformed competitors on SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmarks for load time, query executions per hour, and complex query runtimes.

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Dell 17G PowerEdge Servers & Broadcom Emulex LPe38102: 64G SecureHBA 64G FC HBA Post-Quantum Security Features

Executive summary Security is no longer a convenience it is a requirement in 2025. New regulations went into effect worldwide that mandate best practices for zero trust and security, with implementations beginning now, through 2030/2035. The security threats are real and growing, with financial losses due to data breaches, cyber-attacks ...

Dell PowerEdge R570 Achieves Leadership Scores for Performance per Watt with Intel® 6th Gen P-Core CPUs

Overview With power and cooling costs accounting for increasingly large portions of IT budgets, IT departments aiming to minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) are prioritizing power efficiency when choosing server hardware. This tech note examines the power efficiency of the Dell PowerEdge R570 server. The Dell PowerEdge R570 is ...

Whitepaper: Dell PowerEdge AMD Instinct Series GPU Cluster with Dell Networking

Dell’s AMD Instinct GPU cluster with Broadcom networking delivers scalable AI performance, 87% training efficiency at 64 GPUs, and 20–30% cost savings—making it a compelling alternative to traditional architectures

Intel Edge Insights for Industrial Software

Scalers AI™ tested Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial Software package on the latest generation Dell PowerEdge XR 5610 and XR7620 servers for printed circuit board Defect Inspection and Worker Safety use cases. Dell™ XR5610 Performance Insights with 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® 5 scalable processors using Intel® Deep Learning Boost with ...

Yellowbrick- An efficient Cloud Data Warehouse powered by Dell Technologies

In the current economic climate, CIOs are rethinking their cloud strategy. They face challenges on several fronts - the need to continue innovating and driving growth while reducing the cost of cloud data programs and bringing tangible value. As cloud economics practices mature, private cloud and hybrid cloud are regaining ...

Life After SATA: Value SAS as the Replacement for SATA SSDs

Summary Value SAS SSD creates a new way of optimizing your enterprise. With faster data transfer rates and near price parity with SATA, customers can now boost performance at a significantly lower price point. Dell EMC examines the performance of value SAS by comparing the Kioxia Memory RM5 Series SSD ...

MLPerf™ Inference v5.0 Performance on Dell PowerEdge R670 with Intel® 6th Gen P- core CPUs

Intel Authors: Thomas Atta- fosu, Alex Sin, Tianmu Li, Pramod Pai, Preethi Venkatesh, Saehanseul Yi. Summary Artificial intelligence is quickly changing many industries with new applications appearing daily. As this technology becomes more pervasive, the right infrastructure is needed to support its growth. This Direct from Development (DfD) tech note ...

Powering AI using Red Hat Openshift with Intel based PowerEdge servers

End-to-End AI using OpenShift Overview At the top of this webpage are 3 PDF files outlining test results and reference configurations for Dell PowerEdge servers using both the 3rd Generation Intel ® Xeon ® processors and the 4th Generation Intel Xeon processors. All testing was conducted in Dell Labs by ...

Accelerating Relational Database Workloads with 16G Dell PowerEdge R6625 Servers Equipped with PCIe 5.0 E3.S

Summary The latest 16G Dell PowerEdge R6625 servers support the PCIe 5.0 interface and the Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E3.S form factor. They deliver significant performance benefits and an improved system airflow that enhances heat dissipation. This can lead to less thermal throttling and increased lifespans for ...

Move your private cloud to Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 server nodes and boost Apache Cassandra database analysis

Powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 server nodes handled 2X the operations per second of HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 nodes.

Reliability in Dell Technologies PowerEdge Servers

Introduction Reliability is defined as the characteristic of a product or system that assures the performance of its intended function over time and assures operation in a defined environment without failure. Reliability is designed into PowerEdge servers, and it is constantly evaluated and improved throughout the product lifecycle. Full in-house ...

Dell Servers Versus HPE Servers for Virtualization: a CSP-Centric Price-Performance Comparison

Analysis conducted by Prowess Consulting finds that Dell PowerEdge R650xs servers can provide better overall value and relative performance for transactional and virtualization workloads, compared to HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 Plus servers.

MLPerf Inference 3.0 on Dell PowerEdge Server with Intel 4th Generation CPU

This document focuses on the impressive datacenter inference results obtained using the new 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors on a Dell PowerEdge R760 server.

PowerEdge MX Validate Baseline to Improve Operational Efficiency

Summary Modern compute platforms consist of many components requiring multiple firmware elements. This can lead to complexity and risk when updating these components. To eliminate this problem for MX customers, Dell produces a biennial firmware baseline and validates the complete end-to-end stack with testing built on real customer use cases. ...

Comparing the NVIDIA H100 and A100 GPUs in Dell PowerEdge R760xa and R750xa Servers

Abstract Dell Technologies recently submitted results to the MLPerf™ Inference v3.1 benchmark suite. This blog highlights Dell Technologies’ closed division submission made for the Dell PowerEdge R760xa and Dell PowerEdge R750xa servers with NVIDIA H100 and NVIDIA A100 GPUs. Introduction This blog provides comparisons that draw relevant conclusions about the ...

Evolution of Intelligence System Management Dell OME 4.0 Release

Why were the films Star Wars episodes 4, 5, and 6 released before episodes 1, 2, and 3? In charge of the schedule, Yoda was! At Dell, we like to keep things simple, so we released version 4.0 of OpenManage Enterprise following on from release 3.10. For customers new to ...

Dell PowerEdge HS5610—Cold Aisle Service: Blind Mate Rail Kit

Summary Large scale data centers are often designed with contained hot aisles to manage ambient temperature. Hot aisle/cold aisle layout involves lining up server racks in alternating rows with cold air intakes, the fronts of servers, facing each other (the “cold aisle”) and hot air exhausts, the backs of servers, ...

KX-NVIDIA RAG Blueprint

This guide describes how to deploy the KX NVIDIA RAG Blueprint on Dell PowerEdge servers using NVIDIA NIM microservices and the KDB.AI vector database, enabling a scalable, GPU accelerated, production ready Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution.

Empowering Enterprises with AI: The Rise of Small Language Models on Affordable TCO-Optimized Hardware

| Transform Industries by Making Room for AI AI is transforming retail, healthcare, and financial services by improving efficiency, driving innovation, and enhancing decision-making. Small language models (SLMs) and deployment options like VMWare are making AI more accessible by addressing these common misconceptions: Misconception #1: You need a team of ...

Deploying Enterprise Inference on Xeon & NVIDIA RTX PRO

OPEA Enterprise Inference with GPU-accelerated vLLM on Ubuntu® 22.04: Kubespray-provisioned Kubernetes, the NVIDIA® GPU Operator, and an authenticated OpenAI-compatible endpoint on Dell™ PowerEdge™

Dell PowerEdge Sets the Pace in MLPerf™ Inference v5.1

As a founding member of MLCommons™, Dell Technologies has participated in every MLPerf Inference round since inception. In the v5.1 results, Dell PowerEdge servers once again demonstrated industry-leading performance across the broadest range of workloads tested to date. From image classification and natural language processing to large language model (LLM) ...

PowerEdge C6620 Servers with PowerEdge RAID Controllers Deliver Stronger Performance

Dell PowerEdge C6620 server with Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC 12) analyzed Cassandra database data more quickly than an HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 server with an HPE Smart Array P440ar controller.

The science behind the report: PowerEdge R650xs servers with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors

This paper details what we tested, how we tested, and what we found in the report, Empower more virtual desktop users with Dell EMC PowerEdge R650xs servers with 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

Dell PowerEdge XR Edge AI Smart City Solutions

Scalers AI™ tested the latest generation Dell PowerEdge XR 5610 and XR7620 servers for Smart City Solution. Their smart cities solution uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to monitor real-time traffic safety. Dell™ PowerEdge™ XR5610 system showed better performance compared to Dell™ PowerEdge™XR11system for AI inference and decoding tasks using ...

PowerEdge XR8720t: Next-Generation Edge Server SPECCPU Performance Analysis

Overview The PowerEdge XR8720t redefines what's possible with next-generation edge servers. Single PowerEdgeXR8720t Sled Two PowerEdge XR8720t in a single XR8000 Chassis The Dell PowerEdge XR8720t, built on the Intel Xeon® 6 SoC processors, represents a significant generational leap in rugged edge-computing performance over its predecessor, the Dell PowerEdge XR8620t. ...

The TCO Benefits of Dell’s Next-Generation Telco Servers

This paper focuses on the total cost of ownership (TCO) benefits of moving from the current generation of servers based on Intel’s 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors to the next generation of telco servers

Comparing a Single-Socket PowerEdge R7515 Solution with a Dual-Socket HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Solution

This brief white paper developed by Principled Technologies compares transactional database work in a vSAN environment, comparing the Dell PowerEdge R7515, an HPE DL380 Gen10, and an HPE DL 380 Gen9, and highlights the Dell key value proposition.

Propel your business into the future by refreshing with Dell PowerEdge R7715 servers with AMD EPYC 9355 CPUs

Moving from older Dell PowerEdge R740xd servers to the latest Dell servers can speed data analysis and offer CPU resources for growth while also supporting company web traffic The server clusters you currently rely on to run your company website and collect and analyze customer data have been serving you ...

Get better database analytics with R840 servers equipped with value SAS and data center NVMe SSDs from KIOXIA

A PowerEdge R840 server with RM5 Series value SAS and CD5 Series data center NVMe SSDs processes more operations per second and delivers better performance per dollar than the same server with enterprise SATA SSDs.

Dell CloudIQ Provides a Single Console for Proactive Monitoring with Negligible Impact on Network Bandwidth

Integrated management solutions that enable administrators to monitor environments from the cloud can save IT teams time and reduce the chance that they’ll miss key health or performance issues. It’s important to assess the amount of bandwidth CloudIQ uses.

Fixing the Hidden Costs of RAG at Enterprise Scale with Dell PowerEdge R470

Retrieve more, re-rank on CPU, send only the best. Better recall at one fifth of the input tokens.

The Science Behind: Run more data analysis more quickly using Dell PowerEdge R760 servers

The latest-generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server, powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, performed more data analysis in less time than either older server we tested

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 12 R760 16G Server Performance vs. PERC 11 & PERC 10

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 12 is the new generation RAID controller available on all Dell PowerEdge 16G servers. PERC 12 delivers a performance boost that goes well beyond typical generational improvements.

PERC 12 Generational Performance Boosts

Some additional insights into the recent Tolly report on PERC 12 vs. PERC 11 and PERC 10 No matter your organization’s focus, faster, more reliable RAID is always a good thing. Recently, Tolly published a full-length report comparing the performance of Dell’s PERC 12 with prior generation PERC 11 and ...

Get stronger SQL Server performance for less with R6515 clusters powered by AMD EPYC 7502P processors

This brief 5-page whitepaper, developed by Principled Technologies, compares a PowerEdge R6515 cluster against a higher-priced dual-socket HPE DL360 Gen10 cluster and a previous-gen HPE cluster.

Dell PowerEdge R7615 Servers with Broadcom 100GbE NICS Can Speed Your AI Fine-tuning Tasks

Dell PowerEdge R7615 servers with Broadcom 100GbE NICs can deliver lower-latency, higher-throughput networking to speed your AI fine-tuning tasks A cluster of Dell™ PowerEdge™ R7615 servers featuring AMD EPYC processors achieved much stronger performance on multi-GPU, multi-node operations using Broadcom 100GbE NICs than the same cluster using 10GbE NICs Organizations ...

Streamline VMware Server Deployment and Configuration: Dell OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware VC

In our hands-on tests, the OpenManage Enterprise with OMEVV solution took less time and fewer steps than VMware vSphere Auto Deploy for Stateful Installation of ESXi to a bare-metal server host Expanding your organization’s data center with new servers typically means that admins must devote time to configuring and deploying ...

Dell PowerEdge M7725: Modular, dense performance driving infrastructure innovations

The Dell PowerEdge M7725 server, powered by 5th gen AMD EPYC processors, sets a new standard for dense computing. It provides a modular, innovative solution tailored for the most demanding enterprise workloads. Designed from the ground up, the M7725 excels at handling any CPU-intensive task that requires high-density, cutting-edge performance. ...

What Is the Best Supply-Chain Solution to Verify Server Configurations?

Prowess evaluated supply-chain solutions from Dell Technologies and HPE to determine which tool delivers the most value to enterprise teams when verifying server hardware as it arrives from the manufacturer.

AIPerf Deployment Guide for Dell PowerEdge Servers: Production-Ready Performance Testing for PowerEdge Servers

This deployment guide walks through setting up AIPerf to test LLM inference capabilities and gather detailed performance benchmarks on Dell PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA GPUs.

A Deep Dive into MLPerf™ Inference Performance on Dell PowerEdge XE9780, XE9780L, & XE9780LAP with NVIDIA B300

Abstract In this article, we analyze and compare the latest (unverified) MLPerf™ 6.0 Inference benchmark results obtained from three different 17th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers (XE9780, XE9780L, and XE9780LAP). Each system is equipped with 6th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and eight NVIDIA HGX B300 NVL8 270 GB 1100W SXM6 ...

Stop a power zombie apocalypse using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

Power zombies, also known as ghost servers or comatose servers, can waste precious floor space, spike energy costs, and gnaw on staffing budgets. With Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager in place, your power zombie survival plan is in motion.

Dell PowerEdge DDR5 Memory Bandwidth for Next-Gen PowerEdge Servers Featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC Processors

Summary The Dell Technologies PowerEdge servers featuring the latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors stand at the forefront of new server technology. These 17th Generation mainstream rackmount Dell PowerEdge servers come in single- and two-socket versions in 1U and 2U form factors. On two-socket systems, such as the R7725, each ...

Unveiling the Power of OpenManage Enterprise Backup and Restore

What does Roger Federer call his backup racket? The Federer Reserve, but as all server administrators know, having a backup is no joke! Given that OpenManage Enterprise delivers key deployment, monitoring, updating, and reporting, ensuring the availability of this management solution is a key requirement. Earlier this year Dell Technologies ...

Driving GenAI Advancements: Dell PowerEdge R760 with the Latest 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

This document details an analysis from Dell Technologies and Intel of the next-token latency requirements of real-time chatbots and fine-tuning LLMs.

PowerEdge R750 servers with PowerEdge RAID Controllers vs HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9

Learn more about how Dell PowerEdge R750 servers with PowerEdge RAID Controllers Finish workloads faster with higher throughput than DL380 Gen9 server with HPE Smart Array P440ar Controller

Power Endless Innovation with PowerEdge Servers

Read more about lab tested, benchmarked and third party proven Dell PowerEdge server benefits.

Full Redundancy vs. Fault Tolerant Redundancy for PowerEdge Server PSUs

Summary Understanding the power supply redundancy options to facilitate your server is important for users seeking to prioritize certain use cases over others, such as full, consistent performance during fault conditions or higher performance and capabilities during normal operating conditions. This DfD will discuss two PSU redundancy options; Full Redundancy ...

Infographic: Accelerate I/O with NVMe Drives on the New Dell EMC PowerEdge R650 Server

A new controller that supports NVMe RAID allows the server to deliver up to 15 times the input/output operations per second (IOPS) of a previous‑generation server.

Infographic - Grounded Retrieval with Dell PowerEdge XE7745: Agentic RAG Evolution

Highlights Dell PowerEdge XE7745’s AI capabilities and RAG evolution, showing Agentic RAG reduces hallucinations by ~40%, enabling grounded reasoning with advanced infrastructure for trustworthy enterprise AI.

Improve security, sustainability, & administrator efficiency with the Dell server management portfolio vs HPE

When it comes to selecting servers, specifications shouldn’t be the only consideration on your list. By choosing a vendor with management tools that reduce hands-on time for administrators, bolster security, and offer sustainability planning . In the Principled Technologies test, they compared capabilities of the server management portfolios from Dell ...

Dell PowerEdge R6715 Delivers World Record SPECvirt Results

Abstract The Dell PowerEdge R6715 server, equipped with AMD® EPYC® 5 th Generation processors, achieved three world records in the SPECvirt ® Datacenter 2021 benchmark for Q4 of 2024. SPECvirt results The following results were achieved in SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark: SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark 2024 Q4 Results Platform Overall ...

Migrating Tasks from Dell Lifecycle Controller to Alternative iDRAC or OpenManage solutions

Summary Since the introduction of Dell’s 17th Generation PowerEdge platforms and iDRAC10, the Lifecycle Controller UI has undergone a functional realignment. Unlike the 16th Generation implementation, the 17th Generation Lifecycle Controller UI is streamlined to support only an operating system deployment workflow. This shift reflects a strategic move toward scalable, ...

Handle 19.7% more SQL Server work and support 25% more VMs with new Dell PowerEdge MX760c servers

A cluster of new 16th Generation, Dell PowerEdge MX servers accomplished more OLTP orders per minute and increased VM density at a given level of latency compared to their 15th Generation counterpart.

Stop a power zombie apocalypse using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

Power zombies, also known as ghost servers or comatose servers, can waste precious floor space, spike energy costs, and gnaw on staffing budgets. With Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager in place, your power zombie survival plan is in motion.

MLPerf™ Training v6.0: Latest Benchmarking Results on the PowerEdge XE7740 Server with H200-NVL

Dell Technologies continues to deliver cutting-edge AI performance with its latest MLPerf Training v6.0 benchmark submission, showcasing results on the Dell PowerEdge XE7740 server powered by NVIDIA H200 NVL GPUs. This submission highlights strong performance for modern large language model (LLM) workloads, including Llama 2 70B and Llama 3.1 8B, ...

Dell PowerEdge XR4000 with VMware Edge Compute Stack for Edge Computing

This solution brief includes a combined XR4000 and Edge Compute Stack reference architecture that is validated and supported by Dell Technologies and VMware. It also provides sample configurations.

Improving Oracle Database performance: Moving to Dell PowerEdge R960 servers with Intel processors

Bare metal Dell PowerEdge R960 servers running Oracle Enterprise Linux 8.8 handled more Oracle Database 19 c transactions than legacy PowerEdge R940, and R920 virtualized solutions running Windows Server 2019 Overview Aging servers can become progressively costlier to maintain and can negatively impact business productivity, due to a higher demand ...

Deploy DataStax Enterprise Quickly Using VMware vSphere with Tanzu

Summary DataStax Enterprise allows companies to architect for growth and scalability with a scale-out, cloud-native database that can be deployed with containers. In this document, Datastax, Intel, and Dell present three hardware configuration recommendations to consider with PowerEdge servers. Looking for a scale-out, cloud-native database that will be a good ...

AI Driven Pop-up Manufacturing Made Possible with PowerEdge XR7620

| Executive Summary As traditional manufacturing processes are being gradually replaced by advanced technology, deep learning, 3D printing, and open programmable robotics offer an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate this transformation and deliver high quality, personalized products more affordably. To demonstrate this opportunity we took on a challenge to showcase AI ...

Give administrators time back with Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise integrations

This 6-page white paper, developed by Principled Technologies, reports that Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow (OMISNOW) and Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible modules can save administrators significant time and effort over manual approaches.

New PowerEdge T150 Overview

Summary After nearly three years, Dell Technologies has released the new PowerEdge T150 the entry level 1S tower server designed to power value workloads and applications for budget-conscious customers that prioritize reduced costs over expanded feature sets. This DfD was written to inform readers on what new capabilities they can ...

Firmware Device Order for PERC H750, H755, H350, and H355 Storage Controllers (Linux Only)

Summary Dell Technologies provides a feature to the PERC 11 family of controllers that gives users the limited ability to influence the ordering of devices within Linux operating systems. This DfD tech note is intended to educate customers about this feature and its caveats. It also provides the necessary background ...

Apex AIOps Provides Data Driven Server Management Decisions

Introduction Dell’s APEX AIOps Infrastructure Observability is an AI-driven, cloud-based application for proactive management and predictive analytics of Dell infrastructure, including PowerEdge servers, storage & networking. Predicting, preventing, and resolving incidents faster, and before they impact services availability. This application is part of a suite that also includes Application Observability ...

Executive summary: Automate high-touch server lifecycle management tasks with OpenManage Enterprise

This paper discusses key elements within the systems management portfolio that help IT admins save valuable time and resources with policy-based automation, using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise (OME) 3.5.

Performance Optimization on Dell PowerEdge 17th Generation Servers: BIOS Settings Impact Analysis

Overview This white paper quantifies how system BIOS configuration governs PCIe-attached NVMe storage performance on the Dell PowerEdge 17 th Generation server. Using a fixed Flexible I/O Tester (FIO) small-block random-read workload, five BIOS configurations were measured on a Dell PowerEdge R770 server, progressing from factory defaults to a fully ...

Memory Bandwidth for Next-Gen PowerEdge Servers Significantly Improved with Sapphire Rapids Architecture

Summary New PowerEdge servers fueled by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors can support eight DIMMs per CPU and up to 4800 MT/memory speeds. This document compares memory bandwidth readings observed on new PowerEdge servers with Sapphire Rapids CPU architecture against prior-gen PowerEdge servers with Ice-Lake CPU architecture. Sapphire Rapids ...

Upgrade transactional database performance with Dell PowerEdge R660 servers running VMware vSphere 8.0

In a VMware vSAN cluster, the latest‑generation servers powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors completed more orders per minute (OPM) than clusters of older servers

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Should Side Vents Be Used in Server Cooling?

Summary Dell Technologies supports high performance components while maintaining air cooling as a viable option for customers. Benchtop testing can vary greatly from real deployment environments with potentially significant performance ramifications. Because many IT products are deployed in racks, additional considerations are needed for product behavior beyond benchtop operation, to ...

PERC Hardware RAID Evolution: A Performance Revolution for Dell PowerEdge

Executive Summary The evolution of hardware RAID technology, as demonstrated by the advancement from the PERC 11 Series to the PERC 13 Series, represents a significant leap forward in storage performance and reliability for enterprise customers. This brief analyzes the compelling performance improvements and their impact on real-world applications, making ...

Next Generation Dell PowerEdge XR7620 Server Machine Learning (ML) Performance

Summary Dell Technologies has recently announced the launch of next-generation Dell PowerEdge servers that deliver advanced performance and energy efficient design. This Direct from Development (DfD) tech note describes the new capabilities you can expect from the next-generation Dell PowerEdge servers powered by Intel 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors ...

Dell PowerEdge Servers for OpenRAN Edge Deployments

SOLUTION BRIEF 1 • 1 Dell PowerEdge Servers for Summary Dell Technologies is helping to shape the future of Open RAN solutions with our partnerships and our high performance, purpose-built XR11 and XR12 PowerEdge servers designed for Open RAN and edge deployments. Introduction The future of telecommunications includes an open, ...

Decoding Dell Technologies entry-level PowerEdge Tower lineup

Learn about the PowerEdge Tower lineup

PowerEdge R7625 Rack Server & Emulex: Dell R7625 and 64GFC Combine to Accelerate Oracle Analytics Workloads

Dell PowerEdge R7625 Rack Server & Emulex LPe36002 Host Bus Adapter Dell R7625 and 64GFC Combine to Accelerate Oracle Analytics Workloads Tolly Report #224106 Tolly test report demonstrating that Dell PowerEdge R7625 Rack Server outfitted with the Emulex LPe36002 64G Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter can improve application performance up ...

Powering Your Elasticsearch on Kubernetes

Summary This joint paper, written by Dell Technologies, in collaboration with Intel ® , describes the key hardware considerations when configuring a successful Elasticsearch deployment and recommends configurations based on the most recent 15th Generation PowerEdge Server portfolio offerings. Elasticsearch is a distributed, open-source search and analytics engine for all ...

Dell PowerEdge R770 Achieves up to 65% Performance per Watt Improvement with Intel® 6th Gen P-Core CPUs

Overview With power and cooling costs accounting for increasingly large portions of IT budgets, IT departments looking to minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) are making power efficiency a priority when choosing server hardware. This Tech Note examines the power efficiency of the Dell PowerEdge R770 server. The Dell PowerEdge ...

Introduction to MLPerf™ Inference v1.1 with Dell EMC Servers

Dell Technologies has participated in MLPerf submission for the past two years. The current submission is our fourth round to the MLPerf inference benchmarking suite. This blog provides the latest MLPerf Inference v1.1 data center closed results on Dell EMC servers from our HPC & AI Innovation lab . The ...

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PowerEdge C6620 Servers with PowerEdge RAID Controllers Deliver Stronger Performance

Analyze data from Cassandra databases more quickly: Select Dell PowerEdge C6620 servers with Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers (PERC 12) This new Dell PERC 12 solution delivered stronger Apache Cassandra distributed database performance than a legacy solution

Non-Dell Server Support in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

Summary The monitoring and management of power consumed by servers has become a priority for many organizations, whether due to cost of energy, carbon emission reduction commitments, or facility limitations. In January 2023, Dell released OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager version 3.1. One major feature of this release was the addition ...

Applying Digital Twin and AMR Technologies for Industrial Manufacturing

Globally, there are millions of factories and industrial facilities running around the clock, often with highly complex processes in potentially dangerous environments. By leveraging Digital Twin and AMR technology, organizations can further optimize and monitor these processes, resulting in safer factory environments, less downtime, and greater quality control. Traditionally, complete ...

Dell PowerEdge XR4000

Purpose-built for ultra-short depth and low power, with a unique sled and chassis to meet the demands of today’s retail, manufacturing and defense workloads.

Dell EMC® PowerEdge™ MX750 Servers and MySQL Application Performance Gains with PCIe® 4.0 Technology

Summary This document summarizes a MySQL application performance comparison between the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX750 (with PCIe 4.0 technology) and the MX740 (with PCIe 3.0 technology). All performance and characteristics discussed are based on performance testing conducted in KIOXIA America, Inc. application labs. Results are accurate as of 5/1/21. Ad ...

Content Summarization Deployment Guide - Dell Generative AI with Intel | Enterprise RAG

Introduction Solution Introduction: Dell Generative AI Solutions with Intel | Enterprise RAG combines the power of Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators with Dell’s high-performance servers, storage, networking, professional services, and full stack of open-source software to offer a turnkey RAG solution that makes turning enterprise data ...

PowerEdge Reference Configuration: Ansys on Dell PowerEdge Servers Powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC

PowerEdge Reference Configuration: Ansys on Dell PowerEdge Servers Powered by 5 th Generation AMD EPYC Generational performance uplift on PowerEdge with 5 th Gen AMD EPYC TM CPUs vs. 4 th Gen AMD EPYC TM CPUs Up to 39.21% faster for Ansys Mechanical™ * Up to 25.38% faster for Ansys ...

AMD EPYC for AI Data Preparation: Document Processing

Introduction The exponential growth of digital documents presents a critical challenge for AI development: converting vast, diverse unstructured data (PDFs, images, emails) into structured, AI-ready datasets. This transformation is the foundation of successful AI implementations, enabling enterprises to unlock the value of their proprietary data and enhancing state-of-the-art models with ...

IT Modernization with next-generation Dell PowerEdge Servers and 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Processors

When transitioning to a new Server Technology, customers must weigh the cost of the solution against the benefits it can provide. A “solution” requires a combination of Hardware, Operating Environment, and Software. To gain maximum benefit from new technologies, it is important to consider all of them when making a ...

The First Line of Defense for PowerEdge Servers: Secure Boot with iDRAC10

This technical white paper describes step-step process to manage Secure Boot and its certificates, building a secure chain from power up to OS boot and beyond.

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Doubling Performance: The Impact of Intel Xeon 6300P on PowerEdge T360

Overview The Dell PowerEdge T360 is a robust single-processor server that offers exceptional computing power. This tower server is designed to meet the growing demands of businesses by providing a straightforward and efficient management experience. Ideal for companies seeking cost-effective enterprise capabilities, the PowerEdge T360 combines powerful performance with affordability, ...