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Dell delivers a highly scalable enterprise server platform well suited to virtualisation – are 24 Xeon cores enough for you?

Targeting a range of enterprise applications including server virtualisation and database services, Dell’s latest PowerEdge R900 is touted as its most powerful server yet. This 4U chassis supports the complete range of X7400 Xeons and the review system came kitted out with four of the latest high-performance six-core X7460 modules delivering a total of twenty-four cores.

The 7400 family of multi-core Xeons represents the end of an era as these are the last of Intel’s Penryn generation. Along with four quad-core models, the family has been expanded to offer three six-core versions. The X7460 processors in the review system each offer a full 16MB of shared L3 cache shared across all six cores – the E7450 and L7455 only have 12MB of L3 cache to share around.

It’s always good to see what people think about the different servers, in this case the Dell PowerEdge 900. I remain a fan of the Dell servers, regardless of your preferences HP vs IBM, Dell vs HP, it’s important to know what the different vendors are offering if only so that you can ensure you’re getting the best value/functionality from the vendor you buy servers from. As an end user the more competition and innovation we see, the more opportunities and possibilities for the platform, which has to be a good thing.

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