Dell Technologies Unveils Groundbreaking Servers and Solutions for Modern Data Centers

Dell EMC PowerEdge acce­le­ra­tes per­for­mance with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors to deli­ver powerful infra­struc­tu­re solu­ti­ons for mul­ti-cloud and emer­ging workloads

Dell Tech­no­lo­gies (NYSEDELL) is intro­du­cing a port­fo­lio of all-new Dell EMC PowerEdge ser­vers, new Rea­dy Solu­ti­ons for High-Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting (HPC), and sim­pli­fied manage­ment inte­gra­ti­ons with lea­ding soft­ware and public cloud pro­vi­ders, all desi­gned to address the demands of the modern data center.

Five all-new PowerEdge ser­vers, added to the world’s best­sel­ling ser­ver port­fo­lio,3 have been desi­gned from the ground-up to address the com­plex and varied demands of tra­di­tio­nal, emer­ging and mul­ti-cloud workloads. Engi­nee­red to unlock the full poten­ti­al of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, the new ser­vers offer cus­to­mers impro­ved per­for­mance and an easier to mana­ge and secu­re plat­form. The new PowerEdge ser­vers have set world records inclu­ding 280% grea­ter sin­gle-socket vir­tua­li­zed data­ba­se per­for­mance1 and the industry’s top dual-socket per­for­mance result in the SAP Sales and Dis­tri­bu­ti­on (SAP SD) bench­mark.2

The modern data cen­ter must embrace tra­di­tio­nal and mul­ti-cloud approa­ches, hel­ping orga­niza­ti­ons beco­me more agi­le, deli­ver new insights from data, and ulti­m­ate­ly achie­ve results fas­ter,” said Ash­ley Gorakh­pur­wal­la, pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Ser­ver and Infra­struc­tu­re Sys­tems, Dell Tech­no­lo­gies. “The all-new Dell EMC PowerEdge ser­vers maxi­mi­ze the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor per­for­mance to address the­se needs. We also con­ti­nue to deli­ver enhance­ments to Open­Ma­na­ge, giving cus­to­mers the power to work more seam­less­ly with lea­ding soft­ware and public cloud ven­dors. Our rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment invest­ments are desi­gned to offer the industry’s best plat­forms for AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors with the per­for­mance, secu­ri­ty and fle­xi­bi­li­ty cus­to­mers have come to expect from PowerEdge.” 

Dell Tech­no­lo­gies inno­va­ti­on offers all new Dell EMC PowerEdge ser­vers desi­gned to opti­mi­ze the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors

New PowerEdge ser­vers, desi­gned to opti­mi­ze the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor capa­bi­li­ties, are engi­nee­red to offer the com­pu­te per­for­mance, mana­gea­bi­li­ty and inte­gra­ted secu­ri­ty requi­red for mul­ti-cloud envi­ron­ments and a wide ran­ge of new and emer­ging workloads.

For exam­p­le, the new ser­vers enable impro­ved Dell EMC vSAN Rea­dy Node deploy­ments with an up to 51% increase in input/output per second (IOPS) over pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor-based PowerEdge sys­tems.4

The unpar­al­le­led per­for­mance lea­der­ship of the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor fami­ly opens up a world of pos­si­bi­li­ties for Dell Tech­no­lo­gies cus­to­mers by addres­sing cri­ti­cal workloads in the cloud, high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting and the enter­pri­se,” said For­rest Nor­rod, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger of the Dat­a­cen­ter and Embedded Solu­ti­ons Busi­ness Group, AMD. “AMD and Dell Tech­no­lo­gies have a long-stan­ding histo­ry of pro­vi­ding cus­to­mers with high per­for­mance data solu­ti­ons. The breakth­rough design of the new Dell EMC PowerEdge sys­tems con­ti­nues that col­la­bo­ra­ti­on and takes full advan­ta­ge of the AMD Infi­ni­ty Archi­tec­tu­re and lea­ding secu­ri­ty fea­tures of AMD EPYC to deli­ver excep­tio­nal per­for­mance and TCO to our customers.”

The result of Dell EMC engi­nee­ring and clo­se col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with AMD helps ensu­re cus­to­mers can bene­fit from all fea­tures of the new AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, unli­ke “drop-in” approa­ches that may limit pro­ces­sor capabilities.

The new ser­vers offer fas­ter com­pu­te and memo­ry respon­se and bene­fit from built-in hard­ware and firm­ware secu­ri­ty. Com­pared to the pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on, the ser­vers’ new­ly desi­gned mother­board also offers cus­to­mers bet­ter coo­ling and opti­mal signal inte­gri­ty. Addi­tio­nal­ly, the inno­va­ti­ve PowerEdge designs bene­fit cus­to­mers today and in the future with sup­port for PCIe 4.0 inter­con­nec­tion for next gene­ra­ti­on sto­rage, acce­le­ra­tors and advan­ced networking.

New ser­ver inno­va­tions and capa­bi­li­ties include:

  • Workload-Opti­mi­zed Sys­tem Designs – Built from the pro­ces­sor archi­tec­tu­re up to sup­port all aspects of the new 2nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, the new PowerEdge designs offer sub­stan­ti­al per­for­mance impro­ve­ments for a varie­ty of workloads, inclu­ding HPC, data­ba­ses and VDI.
  • Effi­ci­ent TCO With high core counts and balan­ced con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons, the new, powerful sin­gle-socket designs are capa­ble of workloads that often requi­re two sockets. The effi­ci­ent per­for­mance can offer hard­ware and soft­ware cost savings for impro­ved total cost of ownership.
  • Grea­ter Band­width – Fea­turing up to 26% more PCIe lanes with 60% fas­ter inter­con­nect fabric,5 enab­led by PCIe 4.0, the new ser­vers offer indus­try-lea­ding capa­bi­li­ties for deman­ding net­work needs.
  • Secu­ri­ty – The new ser­vers offer built-in secu­ri­ty from below the chip­set and BIOS to the pro­ces­sor. With AMD’s Secu­re Encrypt­ed Vir­tua­liza­ti­on and Secu­re Memo­ry Encryp­ti­on, the all-new ser­vers offer robust inte­gra­ted secu­ri­ty that spans vir­tu­al machi­nes and sys­tem memory.

Dell Tech­no­lo­gies expands Dell EMC Rea­dy Solu­ti­ons for High Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting portfolio

Dell EMC is expan­ding the Dell EMC Rea­dy Solu­ti­ons for HPC port­fo­lio based on the new PowerEdge ser­vers. New designs for Rea­dy Solu­ti­ons for HPC for Digi­tal Manu­fac­tu­ring, Rese­arch and Life Sci­en­ces offer bene­fits of liquid-coo­ling and GPU-ena­blem­ent to fur­ther enhan­ce per­for­mance for com­pu­te-inten­si­ve workloads, such as arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence, machi­ne lear­ning and deep learning. 

The Rea­dy Solu­ti­ons for HPC, with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, offer impro­ved per­for­mance for workloads such as com­pu­ta­tio­nal flu­id dyna­mics, cli­ma­te and wea­ther mode­ling. In recent test­ing, the PowerEdge C6525 deli­ver­ed wea­ther mode­ling results in half the time as pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor-based ser­vers for fas­ter seve­re storm noti­fi­ca­ti­on.6

New Dell EMC Open­Ma­na­ge advance­ments available with tigh­ter manage­ment integrations

To fur­ther ease manage­ment across tra­di­tio­nal and mul­ti-cloud workloads, Dell Tech­no­lo­gies is intro­du­cing seve­ral Dell EMC Open­Ma­na­ge advance­ments and streng­thening inte­gra­ti­ons across an eco­sys­tem of lea­ding soft­ware ven­dors. Port­fo­lio-wide addi­ti­ons include:

  • VMware Inte­gra­ti­ons – The new release of Open­Ma­na­ge Inte­gra­ti­on for VMware vCen­ter offers increased manage­ment sca­la­bi­li­ty for more effi­ci­ent manage­ment of VMware clus­ters in lar­ge envi­ron­ments. This also pro­vi­des nati­ve sup­port for the vCen­ter HTML5 inter­face to stream­li­ne manage­ment and redu­ce trai­ning time.
  • Micro­soft Win­dows Admin Cen­ter Inte­gra­ti­on – Through new inte­gra­ti­on, Dell EMC brings enhan­ced manage­ment to Micro­soft envi­ron­ments, pro­vi­ding deep con­trol of PowerEdge ser­vers, as well as full-stack visi­bi­li­ty and con­trol of Dell EMC Solu­ti­ons for Micro­soft Azu­re Stack HCI.
  • Ser­viceNow Inte­gra­ti­on – Lever­aging Open­Ma­na­ge Flex­Sel­ect, the new Ser­viceNow inte­gra­ti­on auto­ma­tes ser­vice manage­ment for PowerEdge ser­vers. As inci­dents occur, auto­ma­ti­on bet­ween Open­Ma­na­ge Enter­pri­se and Ser­viceNow deli­vers a con­sis­tent view, allo­wing for reme­dia­ti­on direct­ly through ServiceNow.

Avai­la­bi­li­ty

  • Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 and R7515 ser­vers are available world­wi­de now.
  • Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 and C6525 ser­vers have plan­ned avai­la­bi­li­ty world­wi­de in Octo­ber 2019.
  • Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 ser­vers have plan­ned avai­la­bi­li­ty in ear­ly 2020.
  • Dell EMC Open­Ma­na­ge advance­ments are now available worldwide.
  • Dell EMC Rea­dy Solu­ti­ons for HPC Digi­tal Manu­fac­tu­ring, Rese­arch and Life Sci­ence, with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC-based PowerEdge ser­vers, will be available world­wi­de in Octo­ber 2019.

Sup­port­ing quotes

Scott Sin­clair, Seni­or Ana­lyst, Enter­pri­se Stra­tegy Group
“The ser­ver mar­ket con­ti­nues to quick­ly evol­ve to address a varie­ty of new per­for­mance workloads and envi­ron­ments that can often span mul­ti­ple clouds and com­pu­ting needs. While it is clear that Dell EMC was focu­sed on eking out the most of the latest capa­bi­li­ties of the 2nd gene­ra­ti­on AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors with its PowerEdge designs around the speed and effi­ci­en­cy for I/O and net­wor­king, the addi­tio­nal secu­ri­ty and manage­ment sca­la­bi­li­ty tied to its Open­Ma­na­ge sys­tems manage­ment plat­form is just as important to the cus­to­mers we’­re tal­king to.”

Geor­ge Kari­dis, chief ope­ra­ting offi­cer, Packet
“The new Dell EMC PowerEdge ser­vers with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors are exact­ly what our cus­to­mers need for effi­ci­ent­ly tack­ling sca­le-out cloud nati­ve and machi­ne lear­ning workloads. Packet deli­vers the full value of bare metal direct­ly to deve­lo­pers, so our choice in hard­ware is abso­lut­e­ly cri­ti­cal. Due to an unmat­ched com­bi­na­ti­on of pri­ce and per­for­mance, we’­re exci­ted to build upon our long rela­ti­onship with Dell EMC and invest in the next gene­ra­ti­on of EPYC-based PowerEdge servers.”

Greg Alt­man, IT infra­struc­tu­re mana­ger, Swiff-Train
“The Dell EMC Open­Ma­na­ge Inte­gra­ti­on with Micro­soft Win­dows Admin Cen­ter gives us full visi­bi­li­ty to Dell EMC Solu­ti­ons for Micro­soft Azu­re Stack HCI, enab­ling us to more easi­ly respond to situa­tions befo­re they beco­me cri­ti­cal. With the new Open­Ma­na­ge inte­gra­ti­on, we can also mana­ge Micro­soft Azu­re Stack HCI from any­whe­re, even simul­ta­neous­ly mana­ging our clus­ters loca­ted in dif­fe­rent cities.”

Sam Segran, chief infor­ma­ti­on offi­cer and vice pre­si­dent, Texas Tech Uni­ver­si­ty
“At Texas Tech Uni­ver­si­ty, we take gre­at pri­de in our Qua­nah clus­ter, used by uni­ver­si­ty rese­ar­chers to run a wide varie­ty of appli­ca­ti­ons span­ning che­mis­try, engi­nee­ring, bio­lo­gy and wea­ther fore­cas­ting. As with any spe­cia­li­zed infra­struc­tu­re, high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting is chal­len­ged to attain the right mix of com­pu­te strength and net­wor­king speed for an excel­lent return on invest­ment. The addi­ti­on of our new Red Rai­der Clus­ter, built on the Dell EMC PowerEdge ser­vers with the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, offers the per­for­mance capa­bi­li­ties nee­ded to sup­port the wide ran­ge of com­pu­te-inten­si­ve rese­arch being con­duc­ted at Texas Tech.

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1 1P TPCx‑V is a sin­gle-socket per­for­mance world record on Dell EMC PowerEdge 7515 with AMD EPYC™ 7742 CPU. Bench­mark tes­ted and vali­da­ted with www.tpc.org as of Sept. 17, 2019.
2 2P SAP SD is a two-socket per­for­mance world record on Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 AMD EPYC™ 7742 CPU. Bench­mark tes­ted and vali­da­ted with www.sap.com as of Sept. 17, 2019, cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on num­ber 2019047. Source: www.sap.com/benchmark.
In ven­dor ship­ment share, Source: IDC World­wi­de Quar­ter­ly Ser­ver Tra­cker, Q2 2019
4 Based on Dell EMC inter­nal ana­ly­sis, August 2019, com­pa­ring vdBench IOPS on the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7415 vSAN Rea­dy Node clus­ter vs. the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 vSAN Rea­dy Node clus­ter on ESXi 6.7 U3
5 Based on Dell Tech­no­lo­gies inter­nal ana­ly­sis, Sep­tem­ber 2019, com­pa­ring I/O lanes. Lega­cy design with 128 lanes on 1st Gen EPYC 7701 vs. 2nd Gen EPYC 7702 on the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 with 162 lanes.
6 Based on Dell EMC inter­nal ana­ly­sis, August 2019, com­pa­ring the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7425 with two AMD EPYC 7601™ pro­ces­sors vs. the Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525 Dual AMD EPYC™ 7702 pro­ces­sors run­ning WRF conus 2.5km benchmark.