https://www.prowesscorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/210132-DellR750BroadcomMaxNVMeBoM-WhitePaper-Final.pdf
When it comes to choosing hardware, the right balance of system components can be a challenge. As compute, storage and networking improvements tend to leapfrog one another, complexities lead to bottlenecks and underutilized resources.
The latest major benchmark releases from Dell Technologies Inc. and Broadcom Inc. speak to the industry efforts tackling such bottlenecks. In a special sit-down with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, Kimberly Leyenaar, principal performance architect at Broadcom, discussed the key findings of new Dell/Broadcom server benchmark testing with theCUBE host Dave Vellante.
Why on-prem server hardware still matters
Leyenaar has built her career on hunting down these system constraints. For more than 20 years, she has worked in storage performance analysis and benchmarking, studying the relationship between file systems and applications, the OS and storage layers and hardware interactions. She has authored dozens of performance whitepapers and worked with thousands of customers to design and optimize storage, as well as build mathematical models for next-gen products.
New findings from Prowess Consulting LLC reveal the performance improvements available to small-to-medium-sized businesses in upgrading their server infrastructure. The research compared the latest generation of the popular 2U Dell EMC PowerEdge rack server — which makes use of Broadcom storage technologies — with the previous generation.
The benchmarking approach adopted in these studies mimicked real SQL transactional workloads, according to Leyenaar.
“This is very different from the generic benchmarking. We're not just doing random reads and random writes. Those are great. They're critical. They tell us how well we're performing,” she told Vellante. “But this is more like a paced workload. It really executes SQL I/O transactions. It also provides very realistic and objective measurements that exercises not just storage, but the entire server.”
While the pull of cloud computing may make some wonder why small and medium businesses would want to invest in hardware, Leyenaar still sees a case for on-prem.
“There's a challenge here with skill sets. There's a lack of developers for cloud and cloud architects. So keeping these on-prem where you actually own it, it really does help keep costs down,” she said.
https://siliconangle.com/2022/03/10/analysts-unpack-latest-benchmark-tests-dell-broadcom-advance-raid-rebuilds-poweredge-cubeconversations/
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Does Hardware Matter?
https://www.prowesscorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/210132-DellR750BroadcomMaxNVMeBoM-WhitePaper-Final.pdf
When it comes to choosing hardware, the right balance of system components can be a challenge. As compute, storage and networking improvements tend to leapfrog one another, complexities lead to bottlenecks and underutilized resources.
The latest major benchmark releases from Dell Technologies Inc. and Broadcom Inc. speak to the industry efforts tackling such bottlenecks. In a special sit-down with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, Kimberly Leyenaar, principal performance architect at Broadcom, discussed the key findings of new Dell/Broadcom server benchmark testing with theCUBE host Dave Vellante.
Why on-prem server hardware still matters
Leyenaar has built her career on hunting down these system constraints. For more than 20 years, she has worked in storage performance analysis and benchmarking, studying the relationship between file systems and applications, the OS and storage layers and hardware interactions. She has authored dozens of performance whitepapers and worked with thousands of customers to design and optimize storage, as well as build mathematical models for next-gen products.
New findings from Prowess Consulting LLC reveal the performance improvements available to small-to-medium-sized businesses in upgrading their server infrastructure. The research compared the latest generation of the popular 2U Dell EMC PowerEdge rack server — which makes use of Broadcom storage technologies — with the previous generation.
The benchmarking approach adopted in these studies mimicked real SQL transactional workloads, according to Leyenaar.
“This is very different from the generic benchmarking. We're not just doing random reads and random writes. Those are great. They're critical. They tell us how well we're performing,” she told Vellante. “But this is more like a paced workload. It really executes SQL I/O transactions. It also provides very realistic and objective measurements that exercises not just storage, but the entire server.”
While the pull of cloud computing may make some wonder why small and medium businesses would want to invest in hardware, Leyenaar still sees a case for on-prem.
“There's a challenge here with skill sets. There's a lack of developers for cloud and cloud architects. So keeping these on-prem where you actually own it, it really does help keep costs down,” she said.
https://siliconangle.com/2022/03/10/analysts-unpack-latest-benchmark-tests-dell-broadcom-advance-raid-rebuilds-poweredge-cubeconversations/
