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ATELIER INTERACTIF – PERFORMANCE ET PUISSANCE DE CALCUL – 7 JUIN 2012 PARIS

DELL-Odile P — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:38:00 GMT

Dell et la Rédaction de Silicon.fr vous invitent à un atelier interactif dédié aux professionnels de la conception mécanique, fabrication ou production : automobile, aéronautique, bureaux d’études, bureau de recherche et de développement.

Lors de cet atelier les thèmes suivants seront abordés :

Quels défis se posent aux professionnels – ingénieurs, développeurs de logiciel, producteurs de contenu multimédia, scientifiques, chercheurs, designers… - face à leurs contraintes de productivité ?
Quelles sont les exigences d’évolutivité et de fiabilité pour ces responsables métiers ; et comment les station de travail de nouvelle génération peuvent accélérer l’exécution ?
Comment les nouvelles architectures CPU et GPU améliorent les performances des stations de travail : réduction de la latence pour les traitements graphiques, accélération des applications avec calcul intensif ?
Comment réduire le coût global –achat, installation et maintenance – grâce à ces solutions de nouvelle génération ?

Agenda

08:30 – 09:00	Accueil autour d’un petit déjeuner
09:00 – 09:15	Introduction, par Pierre Mangin, journaliste de Silicon.fr Le marché des ‘workstations’, par Stéphane Krawczyk, consultant d’IDC France
09:15 – 10:00	Enjeux IT et panorama de solutions, par Dell, Intel et Nvidia
10:00 – 10:30	Session de démos interactives, par Dell, Intel et Nvidia
10:30 – 11:00	Session de questions-réponses , animé par Silicon.fr

Lieu :

Dell vCloud Goes Hollywood with GreenButton

Stephen Spector — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:00:00 GMT

The addition of new customers to the Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Data Center Service provides an opportunity for the promotion of interesting ways that Dell’s public/hybrid cloud is leveraged for the maximization of efficiency, global reach, and new business opportunities. I have already blogged about Gratifon and how their VoIP solution enhances the lives of people living in Panama by delivering free phone service in shopping centers. In this post, I am introducing another customer of the Dell vCloud that is revolutionizing access to high performance computing applications without the need for sophisticated, expensive computing infrastructure.

GreenButton delivers an application platform on Dell vCloud for application vendors looking to transition to the cloud and for the management and delivery of cloud services. Leveraging this platform, application vendors can embed GreenButton tools managing the shifting of workloads from the local device to the Dell vCloud for enhanced speed and efficiency in processing the workload. For example, SAP Visual Enterprise Viewer Version 7 is an application helping manufacturing companies unify, synchronize, and deliver visual product and business information. The design work is conducted on local hardware but the 3-D (or 2-D) rendering is uploaded as single workload to the Dell vCloud via GreenButton technology for processing in seconds rather than hours or days on common desktop or laptop hardware. The image below from GreenButton’s website shows an image ready for rendering and the simple “green button” built into the application.

As you would expect, this innovative technology is actively used in rendering of special effects and cartoons for movie and animation studios and graphic design firms. For example, here is a video about the making of a short film submitted by George Kim as an entry for the “Dreamscape” CGChallenge XXVI organized by the CGSociety.org. The entire video was rendered using GreenButton and a public cloud:

(Please visit the site to view this video)

In conclusion, I offer you a video from GreenButton to learn more:

(Please visit the site to view this video)

If you are interested in learning more about GreenButton and how you can enable applications to offload workloads to Dell vCloud please contact me and I will engage you with the specialized Dell-GreenButton team.

Designed by You. Engineered by Dell.

Sally Stevens, VP—Server Platform Mktg. — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Perhaps you have already seen the reaction to our February announcement of our PowerEdge 12^thgeneration servers: 18 excellent product reviews in the press, with one of our servers, the R720, being chosen by Byte TI as the “Best Server of 2012”. Reading the reviews, it is clear that the evaluators understood that the innovations designed into the systems weren’t just “cool” technology, or just technologies ahead of the competition. The technologies are cool, and they are ahead of the competition, but beyond that what the reviewers saw was that the innovations mapped to real world issues that users are striving to overcome, and that the new capabilities lead to meaningful results.

Mapping to real world usage, and enabling users to deliver meaningful results, are two crucially important criteria on the part of potential customers. That we succeeded in hitting the mark on both of these is underscored by feedback we received by customers:

By enabling us to run a large number of virtual machines on each physical host, the Dell PowerEdge R720 server with the Intel Xeon processor E5 family will have a direct and positive impact on our bottom line.”

-Alex Rodriguez, Vice President of Systems Engineering and Product Development, Expedient

The Dell PowerEdge R620 running the Intel Xeon processor E5 family cuts the time it takes to complete our calculations. This level of performance will make a huge difference to our research faculty and students.”

-Hervé Gilquin, Head of Department for Centralised Hardware Dedicated to Scientific Calculation, ENS Lyon

The iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller available with the Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers will help ensure that HPC resources are available whenever users need them. We couldn’t run without iDRAC.”

-Erik Brown, System Administrator, Center for High-Performance Computing, University of Utah

How were we able to bring servers and solutions to market that are so closely attuned to customer requirements?

The answer to this lies in our differentiated approach to solutions design. We engaged deeply with customers during the early planning stages for the 12^th generation servers. I’ve written before about how we had over 7,700 conversations with customers. These weren’t casual conversations about speeds and feeds, but deep engagements with customers, individually and in focus groups, in order to understand their real world usage, and what they needed future systems to do for them. This gave us insight into what customers required for their servers and their IT infrastructures, and we acted on what we learned.

After hearing from our customers, we used that feedback to engineer solutions that you will find across our PowerEdge 12^th generation servers, including the new members that we are announcing this week. These new platforms help to address the requirements of users of all sizes, from small and medium businesses to the largest enterprises, with workloads ranging from the edge of the network all the way back into the data center.

Some of the innovations you heard about in February. These include capabilities such as protecting customers’ virtualized workloads with failsafe hypervisors, enabling servers to run in extended operating temperatures with Fresh Air, and helping customers save time and reduce potential for error with our industry-first agent-free systems management. We are implementing these and other capabilities into the newest members of the PowerEdge portfolio so our customers receive a consistent set of capabilities across our complete product line, regardless of which PowerEdge server they choose.

Other innovations are completely new with this launch. They include helping customers get better utilization out of their precious data center space, with no-compromise, highly dense solutions in racks and blades, unmatched in the industry.

A specific customer-designed example of the value and innovation in today’s announcement is the PowerEdge M420 which is a revolutionary quarter-height blade with complete enterprise-class features. Data centers can now, in the same 10U size M1000e blade chassis, double their performance capabilities with 32 servers while cutting their infrastructure costs in half. Combined with Dell’s Chassis Management Controller, system administrators can now simplify their environment by managing up to 288 nodes through one interface, using a single IP address. PowerEdge users will also be able to address their environmental challenges around server chassis depth, achieve superior acoustics for quiet office environments, and benefit from unprecedented enterprise-class performance and memory protection in our 1-socket servers.

You can learn more about the new PowerEdge servers and solutions here. Each platform reflects the results of deep engagement with customers and acting on what we learned. Or, in other words, “Designed by you. Engineered by Dell.”

Dell Cloud Chat: OpenStack with Dell, Rackspace and DreamHost

Rafael Knuth — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:47:00 GMT

Please join the upcoming OpenStack Chat 24th May 2012, 4.00 – 5.00 pm CET. In brief:
What is Open Stack and Dell Crowbar?

Open Stack
Open Stack is a global community of developers working to create an alternative open source solution to Amazon EC2 and S3. Dell has been an active member of the community since its founding and currently distributes and supports OpenStack deployments. Dell has also developed Dell Crowbar, an open source installation tool built on Chef to install OpenStack quickly and automatically.

Dell Crowbar
With Crowbar, you can install cloud software across clusters and scale out systems quickly and automatically. Crowbar also provides capabilities for network monitoring and discovery, and gathering performance data, among other advantages. With Crowbar, you have a configurable, adjustable framework complete with many built-in features that can save time, streamline effort and potentially lower costs.

Guest Speakers
Rob Hirschfeld, Technical Lead OpenStack & Lead Architect Crowbar at Dell
Scott Purcel, Technical Trainer & MESA SME at Dell
Jim Plamondon, Director Developer Experience at Rackspace (see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Plamondon)
Andrew Shafer, Co-Founder Puppet at Rackspace
Duncan McGreggor, Cloud Engineering Manager at DreamHost

Dell & Rackspace engineers talk with customers
We want bring together engineers who design and build OpenStack and Crowbar with customers seeking first hand technical information. In order to attend the chat, go to delltechcenter.adobeconnect.com/chat (important note: do not type www …) No registration is required. If you have any questions, please contact florian_klaffenbach@dell.com. Looking forward to see you there!

Chat Hosts
Stephen Spector, Cloud Evangelist at Dell (Twitter: @SpectorAtDell)
Florian Klaffenbach, Solution Expert – Microsoft & Cloud Computing at Dell (Twitter: @FloKlaffenbach)
Rafael Knuth, Social Media Manager at Dell (Twitter: @RafaelKnuth)

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 7.0 for Ubuntu

D. Jared Dominguez — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:00:00 GMT

OpenManage Server Administrator 7.0 for Ubuntu is now available for download. This is a major new release, as OMSA 7.0 is designed with PowerEdge 12G servers and iDRAC 7 in mind. We've tested OMSA 7.0 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which is great, since Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS introduces support for Dell PowerEdge 12G servers, including PCIe-SSD drives. If you are still using Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS, don't fret, as OMSA 7.0 will work on Ubuntu 10.04 systems as well, although Ubuntu 12.04 is what is recommended on PowerEdge 12G systems.

Check out what is new in OMSA 7.0 by going to the documentation page for the release: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/SOFTWARE/omswrels/om70/index.htm

If you like this release and would like for Ubuntu builds of OpenManage System Administrator to be officially supported, please provide feedback by talking to your account manager or sales representative. Customer feedback is the best way to show your support for OpenManage for Ubuntu.

Where to Get It

To download and install OMSA 7.0, go to http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/deb/latest for detailed instructions.

Please join us on the linux-poweredge@lists.us.dell.com mailing list for support and feedback. You can sign up at <https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge>.

Like the previous OMSA for Ubuntu release, the apt repository for this release will be signed, but this release is transitioning to a stronger signing key:

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uid                  Dell Inc., PGRE 2012 (PG Release Engineering Build Group 2012) <PG_Release_Engineering@Dell.com>
sub   4096R/79DF80D8 2012-03-02

DELL INTENSIFIE SA STRATEGIE CHANNEL AUTOUR DU DATACENTER ET DU CLOUD

DELL-Odile P — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:43:00 GMT

Pour accompagner plus transversalement ses clients finaux dans la transformation de leur SI, Dell engage de nouveaux projets. Le point avec Emmanuel Mouquet, Vice President et General Manager, Dell PartnerDirect, EMEA.

Le contexte du marché est-il actuellement particulièrement favorable au développement d’une stratégie de channel ?
Depuis 2008, date de son lancement, le programme PartnerDirect a pour mission de répondre aux clients qui préfèrent acquérir nos technologies, plus particulièrement maintenant celles destinées aux datacenters (serveur, stockage, réseau) auprès d’un partenaire de services. Tout en laissant à ceux qui apprécient le modèle direct l’opportunité de bénéficier de ce canal.

Actuellement l’observation globale du marché français, tous constructeurs confondus montre que 30 % des clients investissent en direct et 70 % via les partenaires.

Cette tendance n’est pas nouvelle, elle existe depuis une dizaine d’années. Dell l’a donc interprétée comme un réel choix de la part des clients. Depuis 4 ans, nous leur permettons donc d’acheter nos technologies de la façon qui leur parait la plus appropriée.

Pour Dell, le volume d’affaires réalisé avec les partenaires représente désormais un quart de notre volume d’affaires en Europe de l’Ouest, en France notamment. Et dans le domaine du data center, c’est même un tiers de nos clients qui font le choix d’acheter nos technologies via notre réseau de partenaires.

Quelles sont les incidences de ce mode indirect sur la relation entre le client final et Dell ?
Notre modèle est hybride et Dell est vraiment devenue une société multi canal. Les clients qui achètent via un partenaire restent en relation directe avec Dell. Ils sont répertoriés dans nos bases de données. Ils ont accès aux roadmaps et à nos experts, au même niveau d’information et de support que s’ils avaient achetés en direct.

Parallèlement, ils bénéficient de l’accompagnement, des services, de la personnalisation de la solution autour des briques technologiques fournies par Dell que peuvent apporter nos partenaires.

De quelles garanties d’expertise disposent les clients finaux en faisant appel aux partenaires Dell ?
Nos programmes de certifications cautionnent leurs différents périmètres d’intervention. Pour les technologies data center, en France, une centaine de partenaires spécialisés sont certifiés Dell pour les technologies serveur, stockage, réseau, selon 2 niveaux.

Le niveau “Preferred” garantit au client final la spécialisation du partenaire sur un domaine technologique spécifique, dans son aspect commercial et technique.

Le niveau “Premier“ permet au partenaire d’avoir des certifications multiples sur des technologies différentes du data center. Il dispose d’un volume d’affaires plus conséquent, donc d’un nombre de références plus élevé qu’un partenaire “Preferred” en termes de déploiement des technologies Dell.

Bien évidemment, nous recommandons à nos clients de s’adresser à des partenaires “Preferred” ou “Premier“ parce que nous pouvons en cautionner leurs bons niveaux de certifications, à la fois sur l’approche avant-vente, consulting et sur la partie déploiement, services, mise en œuvre des solutions.

Comment s’articulent les certifications Cloud annoncées récemment ?
Là encore, notre programme de certifications Cloud est structuré en plusieurs niveaux.

Le partenaire avec la certification “Cloud Builder“ est capable de construire un cloud privé autour des technologies Dell.

La certification “Cloud Provider“ concerne les partenaires qui construisent leur propre Cloud, dans leurs locaux, avec les technologies Dell pour fournir de l’IT aux clients.

Le 3^e niveau de certification est intitulé “Cloud Service Enabler“. Il permet à un partenaire d’utiliser les technologies Dell pour fournir un environnement de services mais pas forcément sur la base de son propre data center. Il peut utiliser un data center Dell, dans les locaux de Dell ou chez un autre partenaire Dell. Son rôle est donc plus celui d’intégrateur de technologies Cloud pour un client final.

Ces différents niveaux de certifications apportent à l’ensemble de nos clients plusieurs possibilités : transformer leur data center et le rendre cloud compatible ; être accompagné dans la mise en œuvre d’un cloud privé ; bénéficier de l’IT en tant que service, avec un cloud hébergé chez un partenaire de leur choix ou un cloud Dell.

Envisagez-vous de nouvelles évolutions pour renforcer l’expertise de vos partenaires ?
Nous avons plusieurs projets de certifications en cours de développement. Suite aux acquisitions récentes de SonicWALL et SecureWorks, le premier projet est axé sur la sécurité avec de nouvelles certifications relatives à la protection de l’environnement informatique.

Des certifications Dell autour du Cloud Desktop sont également en cours d’élaboration avec les technologies Wyse, actuellement en phase d’acquisition.

Dell PowerEdge R820 Performance Benchmarks

David J Morse — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:05:00 GMT

As Paul Steeves mentioned this morning, the PowerEdge R820 is a 4-socket 2U rack server that packs a lot of processing power into a dense form factor. He has a lot of great proof points in his blog that I recommend reading.

In addition, today Intel touted multiple industry-standard SPEC benchmarks using the PowerEdge R820 on their E5-4600 performance page, which I've pasted in below for reference:

As you can see, the PowerEdge R820 shines in overall performance (as measured by SPECint, SPECfp, and SPECjbb), yet does not sacrifice on energy efficiency, as proved out by SPECpower_ssj2008!

The PowerEdge R820 is also great for HPC enviroments such as LINPACK; we've measured 649.2 GFLOPS in our lab, an 85% improvement above the 351.6 GFLOPS we measured on the R720!

We've got some other very interesting performance comparisons using the extremely powerful but power-efficienct PowerEdge R820 coming up, so stay tuned to this blog for more information!

References for full disclosure:

SPEC and the benchmark names SPECint, SPECfp, SPECjbb, and SPECpower are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Information on comparisons in the charts referenced above can be found at http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/server/xeon-e5-4600.html.

LINPACK configuration: PowerEdge R820, 4 x Intel Xeon E5-4650 as compared to PowerEdge R720, 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 processors.

Dell PowerEdge R720 Tops Cisco, HP in TPC-H Decision Support Benchmarks

David J Morse — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:29:00 GMT

You may recall that just last year, Dell set database benchmark records with Vectorwise using the PowerEdge R910.

Today, I’d like to announce two new TPC-H world record benchmarks using the Dell PowerEdge R720 and Actian Vectorwise. These results set records for both benchmark performance and price/performance for 100GB and 300GB database sizes!

TPC-H measures decision support benchmark performance. Its primary metrics are performance, measured in Queries Per Hour (QphH), and the cost to achieve that performance, measured in $/QphH.

Here’s how the first R720 result stacks up against the other top 100GB single-node results:

A couple of important points:

The PowerEdge R720 has 21% higher performance and lower overall system cost than the Cisco UCS C250 M2. Digging into the results, it’s important to note that Cisco used their proprietary chipset and 48 DIMMs to achieve their result, while our result only used half the number of DIMMs and a standard chipset
The PowerEdge R720 has 60% higher performance than the ProLiant DL380 G7, at a fraction (1/3) of its price/performance!

How does the R720 handle larger databases? Well, with a 300GB database, the dual-socket R720 surpasses HP’s top results, both of which are 4-socket results!

As you can see, the PowerEdge R720 achieved over 3X the performance of the DL580 G7 and DL585 G7; it also only used a fraction of the memory DIMMs (24 DIMMs vs. 64 for the DL580, and 48 in the DL585)!

Are you using (or considering) 12th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers in your database environment? Let us know in the comments!

Comparison 1: TPC-H 100GB single-node results

System	Performance (QphH @ 100GB)	Price/Performance ($/QphH @ 100GB)	System Availability
Dell PowerEdge R720	403,230	$0.12 USD	5/8/12
Cisco UCS C250 M2	332,481	$0.15 USD	2/14/12
Dell PowerEdge R610	303,289	$0.16 USD	6/30/11
HP ProLiant DL380 G7	251,561	$0.38 USD	3/31/11

Comparison 2: TPC-H 300GB single-node results

System	Performance (QphH @ 300GB)	Price/Performance ($/QphH @ 300GB)	System Availability
Dell PowerEdge R720	410,594	$0.28 USD	5/8/12
HP ProLiant DL580 G7	121,345	$0.65 USD	9/14/10
HP ProLiant DL585 G7	107,561	$1.08 USD	6/21/10

All references above are Non-Clustered Version 2 Results and current as of 5/14/12.

TPC and the benchmark name TPC-H are registered trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council. The TPC believes that comparisons of TPC-H results measured against different database sizes are misleading and discourages such comparisons.

Dell delivers density

Paul Steeves — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:25:00 GMT

Anyone managing a data center faces the difficult balancing act of delivering on continually increasing performance demands, handling the cooling issues that usually result from that, and yet staying inside already physically constrained energy resources. More and more they are turning toward high density computing as the answer and making it a central tenet of their infrastructure strategy.

While designing the PowerEdge 12^th generation servers, we heard from many customers wrestling with this same dilemma. That’s why density is featured throughout the new PowerEdge 12^th generation server portfolio - with some particularly dense models – like the 2-socket/ 1U R620 rack server, the new quarter-height M420 blade server and the one I’m writing about today, the new 4-socket/2U R820 rack server.

The PowerEdge R820 is designed in response to customers who told us they wanted the extra performance of a four socket server without compromising on efficient use of space and energy. The R820 is the first-to-market 4-socket server that uses the Intel Xeon E5-4600 product family, which has a 75% performance increase over the E5-2600 product family. Yet it also offers tremendous density with 48 DIMMS (a full 1.5 TB of memory), 7 PCIe Gen3 expansion slots and up to 16 internal drives, all in its compact 2U form factor. And new PowerEdge 12^th generation I/O options like a split backplane, dual RAID controllers, Express Flash PCIe SSDs, and the modular Select Network Adapter make it even more powerful.

R820 delivers great performance for data intensive applications and has the ability to rapidly scale to handle the spikes that occur in transaction based workloads. It makes an excellent database server and is especially well designed for dense virtualization usage. In fact, the R820 optimally supports up to 60% more virtual machine instances in the same space as HP’s closest similar 4-socket offering (the 4S/4U DL580 G7). Its density allows it to do this – the large memory footprint that supports more VMs and the extensive local storage and expansion slots that give those VMs all the resources they need to run at high levels of efficiency.

The R820 also has what it takes to be a great mainstream database server for mid to large size operations. It can support 129% more database orders per minute in half the space compared to an HP Proliant DL580 G7. It minimizes query wait times using its 32 processor cores, 1.5 TB of memory and improved CPU performance, and eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks with its Select Network adapter flexibility, split backplane, dual RAID and Flash-based storage (which lets it rapidly process in-memory data without “fetching” from an external disk).

“Using these servers, researchers will be able to generate research results faster than before.” MICHAEL FENN, High-Performance Computing Systems Administrator, Penn State University

And lastly, the R820 is an excellent option for High Performance Computing (HPC) shops looking for performance with density. It has both 216% better SPECfp performance and 269% better LINPACK performance than previous generation Dell 2 socket/2U servers.

And the R820 does all of this while delivering 50% better power usage per core (47W) than the previous generation PowerEdge R710 and 106% lower annual operational costs compared to the 2-socket/2U PowerEdge R720. Like all the servers in the PowerEdge 12^th generation portfolio, the R820 supports a Fresh Air compliant configuration that lets you operate at higher data center temperatures – in some cases completely avoiding cooling costs.

Customers wanted more power in less space. We listened. The PowerEdge R820 is a perfect example of the mantra that has been adopted for the 12^th generation servers; “Designed by you. Engineered by Dell.”

Cost and performance benefits of Dell™ Compellent™ Automatic Tiered storage for Oracle Database OLAP workloads

Lance Boley — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:09:00 GMT

by Ramamohan Reddy K, Balamurugan B

In this blog we’d like to highlight the performance and cost benefits which can be achieved using Dell Compellent’ s Automatic Tiered features for an Oracle OLAP(On-Line Analytical Processing) workload.

In Traditional Data Centers, to achieve high performance needs, people choose high performance disks. However, all the data residing in these disks may not accessed all the time. As a result high performing disks are used inefficiently .To avoid this, many Storage vendors have adopted a concept called ‘Tiering’. Tiered storage consists of different disks which differ in cost, performance and capacity. It enables to place the data in the right tier based on usage pattern, performance and cost needs. But, it requires a manual intervention to move and reformat data.

In Dell™ Compellent™ storage systems this process of Tiering is automatic. User can get the benefit of automatic Tiering by enabling Data progression, which automatically moves data to the right place at the right time based on usage pattern and performance needs. See here for the brief description of all Automatic tiered features like Fast-Track, Data Instant Replay and Data progression.

In an OLAP database workloads most of the data is read-only and accessed once in a while. One can get cost benefit by placing data in cost efficient tiers and RAID configurations. Compellent does this placement of data automatically.

To evaluate these cost and performance benefits, In Dell’s Enterprise Solutions Engineering Lab we performed different OLAP tests using Quest Benchmark factory’s TPC-H workload. Initially the tests were conducted on single storage tier to get the base line numbers and then enabled each of the Dell Compellent storage features like Fast Track, Data Instant Replay, and Data progression to find how the Compellent’ s Automatic Tiered features results in performance improvements and cost benefits.

Below table shows the results of our study

T1 – Tier 1 Storage Space (SAS 15K RPM)

T2 – Tier 2 Storage Space (SAS 10K RPM)

T3 – Tier 3 Storage Space (SAS 7.2K RPM)

From the above table and graph by Configuring Oracle OLAP database with Dell Compellent Automated Tiering, we observed the following benefits.

· With Fast track enabled there is 23 percent improvement in Performance.

· Compellent Auto Tiering helped to save disk space by 27 percent by moving read only/inactive data to cost efficient RAID5-9 and RAID6-6 from RADI10.

· Compellent Auto Tiering helped to reduce the Tier 1 storage space usage by 70 percent by moving infrequent accessed data to the lower tiers.

· Compellent Auto Tiering with data progression helped to reduced cost per GB by 51 percent without compromising performance.

For detailed configuration, Test report and comparison analysis please go through the whitepaper.

For more information write to us @ ramamohan_reddy@dell.com or balamurugan_b@dell.com, any feedback is appreciated.