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Initial investment payback analysis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution TEST REPORT MAY 2009 KEY FINDINGS z Each Dell PowerEdge R71 0 solution with VMware® ESX™ can replace seven HP ProLiant DL385 solutions, and could yield a payback in under 18 months.
2 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution OPM in each VM equivalent to that of the HP ProLi ant DL385 solution. The total number of VMs the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution could handle determin es the repl acement factor.
3 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution S ev en HP P ro Li ant D L385 s o l ut io ns De l l P.
4 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Four benefits of the Dell PowerEdge R710 solution con.
5 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution The DS2 driver application creates an orders-per-min ute performance counter on each clie nt machine.
6 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Our results show the advantage in performance, cost, .
7 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Dell PowerEdge R710 solution Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 VM 1 OPM 16,218.6 16,233.8 15,036.6 VM 2 OPM 17,261.6 17,146.
8 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution T est methodology Adjusting BIOS settings We used the default BIOS settings on the HP ProLian t DL385 server and enable d Virtualization Technology on the Dell PowerEdge R710 server.
9 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution management workstation, which was an Intel Pentium 4, 630 3.00GHz running Windows Server 2003 with 2GB RAM.
10 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 12.
11 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Creating the virtual machine with vSphere 1. Click Start, All Programs, VMware, VMware vSphere client. 2.
12 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 31. Click OK to r estart, click C lose, and clic k Restart No w. Configuring networking in the VM 1. Power on the VM, and open the consol e.
13 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution z Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edi tion (KB959.
14 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 22. On the Instance configuration screen, le ave the default selection of default instance, and click Next.
15 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 6. Click OK. 7. Click the Targets tab. 8. Find the two relevant SQL Data volumes for this VM, and select it.
16 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution We configured the internal drives in two RAID 1 volu mes, with two disks per volume. The MS A30 contained 14 146GB 10,000 RPM drives.
17 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Installing system updates in Windo ws Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition • Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB96 1118) • Microsoft .
18 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution • Security Update for Windows Se rver 2003 (KB9301.
19 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 18. Accept the default Error an d Usage Report Settings, and click Nex t. 19. At the Ready to Install screen, c lick Install to begin the installation.
20 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Editing the ds2_create_cust.c modul e We had to make the same change s to the ds2_create_c ust.c module that we made to the ds2_create _orders.
21 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 8. We set the database recovery model back to full.
22 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution 3. Run the batch file C:Program FilesMicrosoft Vi sual Studio 9.0Common7Toolsvsvars32.bat . This sets up the environment variables for us.
23 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Appendix A – T est server information Figure 8 presents detailed informatio n for t he test servers we used in this rep ort.
24 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Servers Dell PowerEdge R710 HP ProLiant DL385 G1 Typ.
25 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Appendix B – T est storage information Figure 9 presents detailed informatio n for t he test storage we used in this report.
26 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution Appendix C – Payback period calculation In calcula.
27 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution • The enterprise would typically sele ct a 3-year .
28 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Initial investment payback analy sis: Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. HP ProLiant DL385 solution About Principled T echnologies We provide industry-leadin g technology assessment and fact-ba sed marketing services.
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