White Paper: Advancing Scalability And Performance With Four-Socket Dell PowerEdge Servers

By Armando Acosta and Robert Bradfield

Enterprises running large-scale databases or virtualized environments need servers that let them scale processing power and memory capacity flexibly and cost-effectively. Because servers in these types of environments run everything from enterprise productivity tools to mission-critical business applications, they must provide outstanding reliability. And to help optimize worker productivity and enhance business agility, servers must also be quick to deploy, simple to manage, and easy to maintain. The Dell PowerEdge R810 and PowerEdge R910 rack servers and PowerEdge M910 blade servers are designed to meet these requirements, combining scalable processing performance and tremendous memory capacity with a dense server design, reliability features, and streamlined management.

Packing additional cores into each server enables organizations to support large databases and large-scale virtualized infrastructures while helping to keep power, cooling, and space requirements under control. For example, the PowerEdge M910 server enables the deployment of up to eight four-socket blade servers in just 10U of rack space. Compared with previous-generation 4U Dell servers, the PowerEdge M910 server is designed to provide double the memory capacity in one-third the space.

The powerful processing capabilities and compact designs of these servers contributes to exceptional price/performance ratios. At the same time, supporting additional processors in a reduced amount of space helps organizations minimize power consumption. In foursocket configurations, these PowerEdge servers also deliver outstanding performance per watt compared with previousgeneration PowerEdge servers.