…Server TPC-C testing, the ETERNUS DX200F lead the group with an average latency of 3ms. In the VMware VMmark benchmark, the ETERNUS DX200F took our 4-node top-spec compute cluster to…

…server node options, the FM120x4 and the FC630, as well as three variations of the PowerEdge FN IOA, a networking block that can take the place of standard 1GbE or…

…systems are designed to spread that load across all nodes in the system. To that end, we deployed four Sysbench VMs on the VSAN cluster, 1 per node, and measured…

…or shared storage, in this iteration we focus on spreading out four 1,500-scale databases evenly across our VSAN cluster to better illustrate the aggregate performance of the 4-node cluster.  Continuing…

…FC830 node, now offering Intel Broadwell support, continues to offer amazing performance in an incredibly small 1U footprint. Dell’s ease of use via intuitive management and flexibility in configuration continue…

…R630 makes for an excellent node in software-defined deployments ranging from vSAN to ScaleIO. While diminutive in rack footprint, don’t let the R630 fool you; it’s a full-fledged dual-socket PowerEdge…

…its 60-bays via three built-in SAS interfaces, which can connect to three ReadyNAS EDA2000 12-bay or EDA4000 24-bay expansion chassis. This amounts to a huge 132-bay single-node network with more…

…includes many of the hyper-converged solutions on the market where some, like the Dell EMC VxRack Node, can require upwards of four 10G connections per node. The Dell EMC S4048-ON (and its…

…compute nodes, along with all-flash DVX data nodes. The F12X2 data node has 16TB usable storage (12×1.92TB SSDs), with up to 32-96TB effective capacity with 2-6x data reduction and support…