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A Principled Technologies test report 5

File server performance on the Intel processor-powered

Dell PowerEdge R730xd with hybrid storage

APPENDIX A – ABOUT THE COMPONENTS

About the Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730xd

Dell designed the two-socket, 2U Dell PowerEdge R730xd rack server to provide the scale-out storage efficiency

needed by big data users, including the option for hybrid internal storage tiering and six distinct storage configurations.

The configuration we tested had two 2.5″ rear HDD bays, eight 3.5″ front HDD bays, and 18 1.8″ front SSD bays.

1.5 TB of memory, and supports up to four optional NVMe Express™ Flash PCIe® SSDs.

With redundant power supply units, hot-swappable hardware, and Dual SD™ card for Failsafe Hypervisors, the

Dell PowerEdge R730xd supports hardware high availability. The PowerEdge R730xd comes standard with iDRAC8 with

Lifecycle Controller and Dell OpenManage™, which all work to streamline management. For more details on the Dell

PowerEdge R730xd, visit www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r730xd/pd.

About Microsoft Windows Storage Spaces

Storage Spaces is a technology in Windows Server 2012 that allows for the creation of virtualized storage by

grouping industry-standard disks into storage pools, and the creation of virtual disks called storage spaces from the

available capacity in the storage pools. Storage Spaces offers automatic storage tiering for volumes that include both

HDDs and SSDs. This allows businesses to mix cheaper, slower HDDs for rarely accessed data with faster, more expensive

SSDs that will handle frequently accessed data in one volume. Learn more at

technet.microsoft.com/library/hh831739.aspx.

About Iometer

Iometer measures IOPS on single and clustered systems. Iometer performs I/O operations to stress a system,

and then records the performance of these I/O operations and the system stress they create. We used Iometer version

1.1.0 on each solution to simulate the same file workloads on the solutions. For more details about Iometer, see

www.iometer.org.

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