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Scalability and performance test results of OpenManage Enterprise 3.4 (tested on multiple PowerEdge servers)
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3.2 Test setup and results of the Firmware and Driver Upgrade feature
in OpenManage Enterprise 3.4
3.2.1 Recommendations for setting an environment to test the Firmware and Driver
Upgrade feature in OpenManage Enterprise 3.4
• Catalog download: Catalog can be downloaded from online/Dell Repository Manager. However,
DRM is recommended as it takes less time to download the DUPs.
• Creating baselines: A baseline is a set of devices or group of devices that are associated with that
catalog. A baseline is created for compliance evaluation of the firmware and drivers for the devices in
that baseline, against the versions specified in the catalog.
• It is recommended to create a firmware baseline sequentially after completion of previous baseline
and compliance report updates.
• For 8,000 devices, it is recommended to create 8 baselines with 1,000 devices each.
3.2.2 Test environment and results of the Firmware Upgrade feature in
OpenManage Enterprise 3.4
Test setup: Below tests were performed by creating baselines using the Dell online catalog:
• Creation of single baseline with 8,000 simulated devices: Each device had at least ‘11’ updatable
components such as iDRAC, BIOS, NICs, HDD, OS Collector, iSM and so on.
• Creation of 8 baselines with 1,000 simulated devices each. Each device had at least ‘11’ updatable
components such as iDRAC, BIOS, NICs, HDD, OS Collector, iSM, and so on.
• Single baseline with ‘200’ physical servers was created and each device had at least ‘5’ updatable
component. Performed Firmware Update on 200 devices.
Test results:
• Time taken to create and display a firmware compliance report having 8,000 devices in a single
baseline is 5 mins.
• Time taken to create 1 baseline with 1,000 simulated devices associated to each baseline takes 30
secs.
• Time taken to create 8 baselines and display firmware compliance report for total 8,000 devices is 3
minutes.
Time taken to create and display Firmware compliance report each having 1000 devices
Baseline No.
Time Taken
Baseline 1
30s
Baseline 2
30s
Baseline 3
30s
Baseline 4
30s
Baseline 5
30s
Baseline 6
30s