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Unleash the beast Tear up your competition with Dell’s most powerful server - the PowerEdge R920 with the Intel Xeon processor E7 family
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PowerEdge R920
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- BROOKS BENNETT, CIO of City of Round Rock,
“The R920 is a beast in terms of performance, onboard storage and all of the workloads that you can push through that machine.”
MEMORY 6TB
LESS
MORE
databases
Trans actions
Power use
VIRTUAL
Faster in-memory databases
Consolidate large databases
71% Better! The R920 beats the similar, previous generation IBM Intel E7 4 socket server 150,000 concurrent users
ULTRA fast ULTRA low-latency
High-performance NVMe Express Flash SSDs
DOUBLE DOUBLE BENCHMARK PERFORMANCE The R920 more than doubles many industry standard performance benchmarks
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Introducing the PowerEdge R920 server Unleashing scalable performance for growing enterprises
• Get faster results and more transactions with system-wide performance improvements
• Grow your business easily with wide-ranging component expandability
• Operate your data center confidently with greater overall reliability
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More data integrity
More transactions
More room to grow
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• Perform more transactions in less time with the R920’s massive memory footprint and tremendous caching capacity
• Boost business-critical application effectiveness based on better database performance
• Consolidate corporate-wide workloads efficiently with large scale virtualization capabilities
Get faster results for enterprise applications Bring more performance to your IT infrastructure
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More data integrity
More room to grow
More transactions
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Grow your business easily and quickly Extensive expandability gives you more flexibility and headroom
• React at the speed of business with highly scalable memory, I/O and storage components
• Build out your SAN capacity incrementally as demand grows with extensive IO and caching
• Scale your virtualization environment for corporate-wide applications and in-memory databases
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More data integrity
More transactions
More room to grow
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• Add to an already rich reliability environment with the new built-in RAS processor features of Intel Run Sure technology
• Safely accelerate data access for corporate environments with high performance dual path RAID (H730P) capability
• Preserve data integrity while accelerating enterprise applications with Fluid Cache using up to 8 Express Flash drives*
Operate confidently with more reliability Enjoy enterprise class levels of built-in RAS and redundancy
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More data integrity
More transactions
More room to grow
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R920
• Intel Xeon processor E7 family
• Top of the line enterprise performance
• Richest Xeon RAS feature set to support mission critical applications
• Highest memory capacity
R820
• Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 family
• Optimized for higher density
• Lower system price points
• Excellent performance per watt (PPW)
Best for enterprise apps (database, BI, virtualization, etc) needing large, scale-up servers
Best for dense 4-socket designs, 4-socket HPC apps, and entry 4-socket servers
Comparing Two 4S Platforms for Different Customer Needs
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Massive memory footprint Enable more powerful applications
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The R920 has 96 DDR3 DIMM slots for a total of 6TB of RAM
The R920’s tremendous memory capacity enables running large centralized applications like CRM, business intelligence, ERP and databases. It is also well suited for large-scale application virtualization.
Removable R920 memory riser. Each riser holds 12 DIMMs.
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Highly scalable internal storage Accelerate your applications’ data access
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Up to 24 drives
• Optional 12Gb/s SAS drives (twice as fast!) • Up to 8 PCIe Express Flash drives
The combination of high spindle count, high speed SAS drives, PCIe Express Flash drives and Dell Fluid Cache capability give the R920 unprecedented options for high performance storage access.
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Flexible storage for workload specific needs 3 available drive configurations
• X24 backplane with up to 24 drives and dual PERC9 capability
• X4 backplane with 4 SSDs
• X16+8 backplane with up to 16 HDDs and 8 PCIe SSDs (gen3)
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Introducing 12Gb/s SAS drives Get faster data access with higher performance drives
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With the R920, Dell is introducing support for high-speed 12Gb SAS drives. These drives are double the previous speed of available SAS drives.
Applications using these drives, in combination with other R920 features like high performance PERC and high spindle count configurations will see impressive performance improvements from previous generation systems and configurations.
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H730P High Performance PERC option
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The H730P PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) is a high performance RAID controller for Direct Attached Storage. It supports 3Gb/s, 6Gb/s & 12Gb/s SAS and SATA hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state devices (SSD) and
leverages 2GB NV Cache for optimal RAID performance.
• 12Gb/s SAS throughput
• Up to 100% more IOPS performance than previous generation
• Workload optimized performance
• Agentless management through iDRAC7. Configure, deploy, update and monitor PERC via GUI or Command Line Interface (Racadm)
• Premium RAID6 & RAID60 as standard features
Benefits
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Unprecedented Express Flash capacity
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The R920 supports up to 8 (eight!) Express Flash PCIe-SSD Gen3 devices that greatly accelerate application performance and offers industry leading low latency in PCIe storage. Our new NVME Express Flash devices give customers a choice of 400GB, 800GB and 1.6TB capacities.
• Unprecedented performance (IOPS)
• Front loading, hot-swappable for maximum RAS and ease-of-use features
• Standards Driven – 2.5” FF & NVM Express interface
• No competitor offers as large a set of 2.5” PCIe-SSD devices in a similar 4 socket server
• No competitor offers Fluid Cache capabilities with a high-speed intra-server network.
Competitive Differentiators
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Dell Fluid Cache capability* Accelerate application performance with high speed cache
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• No competitor offers as large a set of Flash drives in a similar 4 socket server • No competitor offers Fluid Cache capabilities with a high-speed intra-server
network.
Competitive Differentiators
FC for SAN caches the most critical application data at the server tier, and allows it to be shared among servers across a high-speed private network. It can double the number of transactions for OLTP applications and doubles the speed of write-backs to disk.
Fluid Cache for SAN produces unprecedented I/O performance with faster application response time in a highly available, scalable, low-latency SAN environment.
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The R920 provides 10 PCI slots that let businesses create large enterprise SAN environments and opens up the ability to adapt their infrastructure as demands change. The R920 PCIe connections support:
• Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) to connect to a SAN network • PowerEdge Raid Cards (PERC) to accelerate storage performance and
add redundancy. – supports dual PERCs on a x24 backplane – supports the new H730p high performance PERC
• Mellanox cards to support the high-speed networking for Dell Fluid Cache for SAN
• PCIe risers to expand to the full 10 slots.
Extensive PCIe Gen3 connectivity* Adapt and expand your business with greater flexibility
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Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v2 Family
Up to 50% more cores and up to 25% more cache for up to 2x average performance increase
Performance Increase
New reliability features for improved system uptime and data integrity, which is especially critical in mission-critical situations
Reliability Features
Highest memory capacity for data-demanding, transaction-intensive workloads, such as ERP, CRM, HPC, and in-memory DB systems
Highest Memory Capacity
In-Memory + r eliability and u p time
scalability
+99.99%
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Intel’s processor performance leadership
UP TO 25% MORE CACHE
2x UP TO 2X
PERFORMANCE
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UP TO 50% MORE CORES/THREADS
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• Uses 2 or 4 processors
• Up to 15 cores in each processor
• 60 cores/4S
• Eight (8) DDR3 channels per socket
• Up to 24 DDR3 DIMMs per socket
• Supports up to 64GB DDR3 LR-DIMM
• Up to 6TB of memory in a 4S platform
• Up to 1600MHz DDR3 speeds
• Memory Controller can support 2 modes
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Up to 6TB
Bigger Memory, More Opportunities
Increase in
Memory
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(E7 v2 Memory Capacity Increase) On a 4-socket natively-connected platform: Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family supports 64DIMMS, max memory per DIMM of 32GB RDIMM; Intel® Xeon®
processor E7 v2 family supports 96DIMMs, max memory per DIMM of 64GB RDIMM. This enables a 3x increase in memory.
In- memory database allows • Cost Savings + • Enhanced Efficiency+ • Greater Visibility
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Intel® Xeon® E7-8800/4800/2800 v2 processors include more than 40 features designed to reduce frequency and cost of
downtime while protecting data integrity
Introducing Intel® Run Sure Technology: 40 Reliability Features
INTEL CONFIDENTIAL Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured
using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and
performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products.
Technology Uses
Resilient Memory Technologies
Ensures data integrity & enables systems to keep running reliably over a longer period of time, reducing the need for immediate service calls.
Resilient System Technologies
Standardized technology integrating processor, firmware, and software layers that allow the system to diagnose and/ or recover from previously fatal errors
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% Performance improvement based on preliminary Intel benchmark measurements: 75% spec_int rate & 25% spec_fp rate
Segment Optimized Low Power (LV)
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E7-4860v2 130W 2.6GHz/12C
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E7-4870v2 130W 2.3GHz/15C
E7-4880v2 130W 2.5GHz/15C
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All Nehalem-EX & Westmere-EX processors (including GSP’s) will EOL with the R910 platform in
September, 2014
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Optimum R920 Workloads/Environments
• Accelerate your large corporate-wide applications (ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence)
• Efficiently support large corporate SAN environments
• Implement in-memory databases (i.e., SAP HANA)
• Consolidate enterprise workloads with large-scale virtualization
• Migrate from an outdated RISC environment to a future-ready data center
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The R920 and SAP HANA Enterprise features enable in-memory database and analytics
Unprecedented performance delivers real-time response for business planning and simulation applications
• Execute customer transactions faster
• Enable new applications using real-time capability
• Identify supply chain changes and respond immediately • Identify market trends customer needs instantly
• Track your sales pipeline continuously
96 DIMMs 6TB RAM
High Performance
PERC
24 drives 12Gb SAS
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Save real money with real-time results The R920 excels at powerful SAP HANA in-memory processing
R720 running SAP Business suite (i.e, ERP)
Compellent Storage Center SANs
R920s running SAP HANA in-memory
R520 running Web services
Phone Tablet Laptop
Take the time saved on transactions to spend on analysis of results
Raise your business to a higher level of thinking Application layer
Presentation layer
Data Access layer
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The R920 and Oracle Transform your business running Oracle on the R920
Base your business on the solid foundation of best-in-class hardware and industry leading software
• Automate customer interactions through custom online transaction processing (OLTP)
• Gain valuable insights from up-to-the-second data collected into a reliable, high-performance data warehouse
• Keep your finger on the pulse of your business
operations with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system
• Simplify deployment with tested and validated Dell | Oracle configurations
Base your business on the solid foundation of best-in-class hardware and industry leading software
The R920 delivers the rapid responsiveness and rock-solid reliability Oracle needs to help your business excel
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The R920 with Fluid Cache for SAN Produce unprecedented I/O performance with faster application response time in a highly available, low-latency SAN environment.
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Storage Network (FC or iSCSI)
Dell Compellent SC 8000 and storage array
Flash cache pool up to 21TB
Private Network (10/40 GbE)
• Deliver critical results by boosting transactional performance and reducing response time
• Scale database and virtualization performance on the fly with the addition of Express Flash drives or nodes
• Ensure data integrity with write-back SAN caching technology and full coherency to Compellent backend storage tiering
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• Upgrade IT systems to comply with government or industry regulations • Take advantage of emerging technologies (i.e., virtualization, mobile, big
data) • Eliminate dependency on proprietary platforms • Migrate to more cost effective systems that can improve efficiency and
agility • Achieve lower total cost of ownership • Gain flexible IT infrastructure that scales with growth
Third party applications that are suitable for migration:
• SAP Business Suite
• Oracle Peoplesoft
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Oracle Siebel CRM
Benefits of migrating from Unix/RISC Move your IT into the future
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VRTX 1.3 Release Mar 11 : What’s New?
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Additional server node choices
Drive Tier 1, back-end workloads with 4-socket, full height M820 server node featuring huge memory capacity, wide network bandwidth, and low latency Express Flash storage
More networking flexibility (post-RTS)
Existing 1GbE options for cost-sensitive users, and now 10GbE quad port internal NIC and 10GbE network switch for applications requiring higher bandwidth and performance
Next-level data protection inside the chassis
Optional redundant PERC provides high availability RAID controller failover inside the chassis
Enhanced system management
Continued feature set parity between CMC in the data center and CMC on VRTX ensures system management consistency and simplicity
Expanded support for VDI
Support for optional GPGPU enables VDI in ROBO
PowerEdge M820 full height, 4-socket
server node
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VRTX 1.3 Launch Strategy
• Global RTS March 11 (Mar 12 APJ) with a VRTX Customer Momentum release planned in early April to coincide with the latest updates to VRTX.
• This release is an opportunity to push on the complete VRTX solution while highlighting the new capabilities
• Actions – Renew VRTX momentum in the field and with customers – Refresh key VRTX assets from the June 2013 RTS – Use as a push for the ‘Office IT Redefined’ campaign in ESG Marketing – Push in key verticals and regions where customers have been waiting for
the 1.3 technologies