Dell POWEREDGE R720 - Manual (Page 9)

Consolidating Legacy OLTP Application Servers with the Dell 12 th Generation PowerEdge R720
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Appendix - test configuration
Table 1 describes the software and hardware configuration that was used throughout testing on
both the simulated legacy production environment and the 12G test environment.
Table 1. System Configuration
Component Legacy environment PowerEdge R720 environment
System PowerEdge 2950 III PowerEdge R720
Processor
Two Intel Xeon X5460, 3.16 GHz quad
core
Two Intel Xeon E5-2670, 2.70 GHz
eight core
Memory 64 GB DDR2 (8 GB DIMMs) 64 GB DDR3 (8 GB DIMMs)
Internal Disks Two 73 GB 2.5” 15K SAS Two 300 GB 2.5" 15K SAS
Network Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II Broadcom BCM5720 NetXtreme II
External
Storage
2x PowerVault MD1120 48 x 73 GB
2.5" 15K SAS
2x PowerVault MD1220 48 x 146 GB
2.5" 15K SAS
RAID
Controller
PERC 6/E PERC H810
OS Windows 2003 R2 Ent. x64 Windows 2008 R2 SP1
Database
System
Microsoft SQL 2005 Ent. x64 Microsoft SQL 2012 Ent. x64 (RC1)
Workload
Quest Benchmark Factory TPCC workload
• Scale factor: 3000
• User connections: 250 – 18000