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About the new solution
The Dell EMC Red Hat Enterprise SQL Server 2017 Standard PowerEdge R740xd Linux 7.5 on Linux
The 14th generation Dell EMC According to Red Hat, the 7.5 According to Microsoft, SQL Server PowerEdge R740xd offers strong release of the open-source OS offers 2017 Standard on Linux helps users database performance with a variety improvements “including enhanced “find rich programming capabilities, of storage configuration options. It security and compliance, usability security innovations, and fast can support up to 24 NVMe drives at scale, continued integration with performance for mid-tier applications (we tested with two SAS HDDs and Windows infrastructure on-premise and data marts” with features like 12 SATA SSDs) and is powered by and in Microsoft Azure, and new end-to-end database security, Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.2 functionality for storage cost controls.”3 enhanced in-memory performance, basic reporting and analytics, and hybrid scenarios.4
Support more customers and get them from landing page to checkout faster by upgrading to a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd June 2019 (Revised) | 2 running Microsoft SQL Server on Linux 2017 Standard on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 About the DVD Store 2 benchmark The new Dell EMC + Microsoft + Red Hat solution handled more orders and reduced DVD Store 2 (DS2) models an online wait times DVD store, where customers log in, search for movies, and make Our tests demonstrated that upgrading to a new solution based on purchases. DS2 reports the number the latest technology from Dell EMC, Microsoft, and Red Hat could of customer actions the system can have you processing a significant number more database orders and handle as orders per minute doing so more quickly. (OPM), to show what kind of performance you could In fact, our new solution did the work of over six legacy servers running expect for your customers. older software versions. This means that if you replace your older servers The DS2 workload also with new ones, you could set up your business for significant future growth. performs other actions, such as adding new customers, to exercise the wide range of database functions you Orders per minute would need to run your ecommerce environment. 20,000 177,493 For more information about the DS2 tool, see https:// 15,000 github.com/dvdstore/ds21. 10,000
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Application latency (ms) We also looked at two kinds of Lower is better 48 latency to see how the upgraded 50 Dell EMC + Microsoft + Red Hat solution could deliver a more 40 responsive experience for additional 30 users. As the chart shows, the new 14th generation solution reduced 20 application latency by 85 percent,
which means that end users could 10 7 access your database faster. 0 Dell EMC PowerEdge Dell EMCPowerEdge R740 d solution R720 d solution
Support more customers and get them from landing page to checkout faster by upgrading to a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd June 2019 (Revised) | 3 running Microsoft SQL Server on Linux 2017 Standard on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Drive read latency and drive write latency also shrank on the new Dell EMC + Microsoft + Red Hat solution, which is another view into how upgraded tech can make database work go faster. With lowered latency, the system takes less time to respond to requests, helping give customers a smoother experience.
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Keep customers coming back: Serve more requests, faster with the 14th generation Dell EMC + Microsoft + Red Hat solution Your previous server and software investment provided a platform for you to run your business for the last several years. But now, it’s time to make another investment in your business’s future. Upgrading to the latest hardware and software can help you serve more customers and keep them happy with a responsive experience.
As we found in our tests, a new Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 with Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard did dramatically more work than a legacy server solution running older software versions. By doing more work and cutting wait times to almost nothing, the new Dell EMC + Microsoft + Red Hat solution could keep customers coming back.
1 IDC, “Why Upgrade Your Server Infrastructure Now?” accessed May 8, 2018, https://www.emc.com/collateral/ana- lyst-reports/idc-why-upgrade-server-infrastructure.pdf 2 Dell EMC, “Dell EMC R740xd spec sheet,” accessed May 8, 2018, http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-con- tent/data-sheets/en/Documents/poweredge-r740xd-spec-sheet.pdf?newtab=true 3 Red Hat, “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 released,” acccessed May 8, 2018, https://access.redhat.com/announce- ments/3405871 4 Microsoft SQL Server datasheet, accessed May 8, 2018, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server- 2017-editions Read the science behind this report at http://facts.pt/gqxydd
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Support more customers and get them from landing page to checkout faster by upgrading to a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd June 2019 (Revised) | 4 running Microsoft SQL Server on Linux 2017 Standard on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5