Dell 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers Solution Center
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Dell™ PowerEdge™ 12th generation servers powered by Intel® Xeon® Processors offer the most advanced Dell server innovations to give you more power-and the tools to harness it.
Managing Dell Blade and Chassis Using Dell OpenManage Essentials
This technical document explains how to manage multiple Dell chassis and blades remotely using Dell OpenManage Essentials. Dell OpenManage Essentials is a light weight, web-based one-to-many systems management application that provides a comprehensive view of all Dell systems, devices, and components within an enterprise’s network or data center.
View Now »Dell OpenManage Power Center
Dell OpenManage Power Center and iDRAC7 Enterprise deliver a new level of control and effectiveness to power management. Together with Intel’s Intelligent Power Node Manager, they work together to resolve the problem of delivering accurate, timely, and reliable information on power use.
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Update Dell Server Hardware with Dell OpenManage Essentials
Managing hardware updates in the data center can be challenging. This technical white paper explains how IT administrators can use Dell OpenManage Essentials to keep servers up to date without forcing an unplanned shutdown.
View Now »Benefits of Solid-State Storage
PCI Express solid state storage (PCIe-SSS) is a type of storage device that connects directly to the server’s PCIe bus. This technical white paper offers a primer on PCIe-SSS, explains the differences between SAS or SATA SSDs and PCIe-SSS, and highlights the performance advantages of PCIe-SSS.
View Now »Dell PowerEdge Servers: The Right Choice for Collaboration
To support distributed workgroups, companies must deploy collaboration tools on powerful servers that can support large files, high-bandwidth connections and real-time interaction among simultaneous users. Dell’s PowerEdge servers, networking, storage and client and service offerings are optimized to meet enterprise collaboration needs.
View Now »Dell 12G white papers: Why Dell for Oracle Decision Support Applications
In order to retain a competitive edge, spot new trends, and analyze customer information, businesses must quickly access and analyze the growing about of data available in their Oracle decision support systems. Dell servers cost-effectively deliver the performance, speed and uptime these organizations require.
View Now »Increasing EDA Throughput with New Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 Product Family
The new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family delivers significant throughput improvements for Intel design workloads across a range of EDA applications. See test results of a dual-socket server running single-threaded, multi-threaded, and distributed EDA applications.
View Now »Data Center and Private Cloud Solutions
By progressively transforming your data center, you can turn it into a highly-optimized private cloud that maximizes efficiency, security, and agility, while providing elastic scalability and always-on availability.
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Advanced Thermal Control: Optimizing across Environments and Power Goals
Thermal control actively manages system cooling through fan speed and power management to minimize power consumption, airflow, and system acoustic output. This paper discusses the improvements advanced thermal control yields to tune thermal control based on individual configurations and support for ambient temperatures as high as 45° C.
View Now »Dell's Next Generation Servers: Pushing the Limits of Dace Center Cooling Cost Savings
The deployment of chiller-less facilities have been proven by a number of hyper-scale data centers and are rapidly becoming a mainstream cooling cost reduction tool. This paper provides analysis of world-wide climate data and the problem of 35° C temperature ratings for most IT equipment. Dell’s next generation, fresh air capable servers break through this limitation with a peak excursion temperature rate of 45° C.
View Now »Power and Cooling: A Dell Point of View
No data center can survive without a robust power and cooling strategy. Dell is on the forefront of innovative design approaches to maximize energy efficiency throughout its product portfolio. Discover the large financial benefits organizations are realizing by deploying methodologies that optimize data center power and cooling usage.
View Now »Right-Sized Power Systems: A Means to Improved Energy Efficiency
Traditionally, energy efficiency is understood as the ratio of energy-in vs. energy-out. This technical white paper examines the interaction within power supplies used in enterprise-class servers and the tendency to over-size this asset compared to the workload it will support. Learning how to right-size your power supply based on configuration and workload will translate into energy savings and greater ROI.
View Now »Consolidating OLTP Workloads on Dell PowerEdge R720 12th Generation Servers
Improve total cost of ownership by consolidating Oracle OLTP workloads. This paper explains how to select the appropriate hardware and software stack to optimize the database and provides administrators with help to test, compare, validate, and implement the right bundled solution.
View Now »Imagination to Insight: Accelerating Discovery with the Intel Xeon Processor E5 Family
In the world of high-performance computing (HPC), every increase in processor performance creates an opportunity to accelerate the pace of research and development. The Intel Xeon processor E5 family provides unprecedented performance to help you run simulations and solve problems faster.
View Now »Better Power Management for Date Centers and Private Clouds
The ability to monitor and control data center power and thermals is one of the main advantages of servers based on new Intel Xeon processors. Discover how you can optimize data center and cloud deployment efficiencies without breaking your budget.
View Now »Dell Energy Smart Architecture and Power Management Adoption
According to The Green Grid, power management features are not widely used due to a lack of awareness, organizational issues, insufficient ROI methodology, and a general mistrust that the features will adversely affect performance. The Dell energy Smart Architecture has been developed to address today’s power management needs to achieve power-saving benefits even at peak performance.
View Now »Increasing Energy Efficiency through Modular Infrastructure
Improving data center energy efficiency has become a top priority. This technical white paper addresses how Dell PowerEdge M1000e thermal design and the 2700W power supply meet the energy demands of the modern data center and push power supply technology to the cutting edge.
View Now »Boosting SQL-Based Decision Support Power and Performance with Dell's Twelfth Generation Servers
SQL-based decision support systems require powerful servers, scalable storage and high-speed networks to be able to deliver an immediate response to users’ queries. This paper highlights results from a recent Quantitative Market Research Report about decision support workloads with an analysis of how Dell’s 12th generation servers performed.
View Now »Achieving a High Performance OLTP Database using SQL Server and Dell PowerEdge R720 with Internal PCIe SSD Storage
Powerful processors, high memory capacity and front loading PCIe SSDs found in Dell’s next generation of PowerEdge servers make them highly desirable for demanding SQL Server applications. See these CPU and PCIe SSD performance evaluations using specific OLTP test configurations.
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Optimizing SQL Server Storage Performance with the PowerEdge R720
Multiple storage options can be deployed today to tackle the storage performance requirements of SQL Server. This report highlights benchmark test results of both dual-core RAID controller with multiple device drive types and Express Flash PCIe-SSDs using a simulation of the I/O workload of a medium-sized SQL Server TCP-E-like OLTP database.
View Now »Using Converged Network Adapters for FCoE Network Unification
To unify its LAN and SAN infrastructure over a single fabric, the IT team at Intel evaluated the price and performance advantages of switching to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) using converged network adapters (CNAs). In comparing a CNA solution to a two-card solution, a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network interface card and a FC HBA, they determined that CNAs provide a cost-effective solution for network unification for their virtualized environment.
View Now »Best Practices for Building an Enterprise Private Cloud
Building Intel’s enterprise private cloud is a complex, multi-year process that requires a comprehensive strategy. The Intel IT team decided to build out cloud from the inside out, focusing first on implementing private IaaS. Now they are turning their attention to providing PaaS and SaaS and they’re sharing what they’ve learned.
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