The PowerEdge XE7100 significantly improves scalability and efficiency

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Nothing seems to grow faster than the need for storage. With IoT, images and video feeding big data analytics systems, that growth curve can be steep as new systems come online. Dell Technologies has designed its latest storage server with a focus on high-density, high-capacity storage customers.

Dell Technologies recently commissioned Tolly to study the specifications and features of its Dell PowerEdge XE7100 and provide analysis and context on where the device stands in terms of advancement in the industry.

Tolly found that the Dell PowerEdge XE7100 storage server provides significant scalability and efficiency advantages both when compared to previous-generation systems and current-generation systems from a leading how to get usa whatsapp number competitor. Significantly, the unit provides module server sled options that enable high-performance optimization for specific application focus areas such as storage/archive, intelligent video analytics (IVA) and media streaming.

Our analysis contrasted the Dell PowerEdge with the specifications of a leading competitor. As you’ll see, the Dell PowerEdge XE7100 showed significant scalability advantages, as well as significant efficiency advantages. As we say in the report, “More is more… and less is more” – the benefits are multiple.

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Dell Technologies PowerEdge XE7100 server - top view
Dell Technologies PowerEdge XE7100 server – top view

Let’s start with scalability. The Dell XE7100 supports 100 drives total. It’s top-loading, with mostly 15-drive rows. That’s 67% more capacity than a leading competitor. Filling a 42U rack with eight of the 5U Dell PowerEdge XE7100 drives gives you 800 drive drives in a single STANDARD-sized rack. Some storage vendors require racks with unusual dimensions. Such racks can cause complexity in the data center and reduce the physical space available between rows of racks.

So it’s important to note that using a standard-sized rack, the number of drives supported per rack with the Dell PowerEdge XE7100 is 33% higher than a leading competitor. Drives now support 18TB drives, providing a massive 14.4 Petabytes of storage in a single rack.

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Efficiency
Now on to efficiency… While many storage servers are 4U, the fact that the Dell PowerEdge XE7100 is 5U provides additional efficiency at the rack level. That is, eight units of the Dell PowerEdge XE7100 fill a 42U rack where it would take 10 units of a 4U storage server to fill the rack.

And the Dell XE7100’s efficiency extends to its power and cabling requirements, too. Dell Technologies has optimized the power supplies and the cabling that accompanies them. And because fewer units are needed to populate a rack, the benefits of that optimization extend beyond the unit to the rack as a whole.

While a leading competitor requires four 1600W power supplies per unit, the Dell PowerEdge XE7100 requires only two 2400W power supplies, reducing cabling complexity, allowing the user to optimize costly infrastructure elements such as power distribution units (PDUs), and reducing power consumption.

At the unit level, this equates to a 50% reduction in power supplies required, and at the rack level, this equates to a 60% reduction in power cables. Dell delivers 25% less power per unit and 40% less total power per rack. Reduced cabling requirements reduce overall data center and rack management complexity.

Data centers are “forever” and therefore optimizing operational costs can cast a long shadow and provide benefits “forever.” There is increasing attention to “sustainable” data centers. Power consumption and energy efficiency are at the heart of that type of sustainability. Reductions of 25% power per unit and 40% per rack can provide far-reaching benefits with respect to improved energy efficiency and these benefits only increase as more existing units are replaced with the Dell PowerEdge XE7100.

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