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30 Benchmark the Performance, Reliability, and Scalability of Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 3.4 in your data
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• “Reset iDRAC” is not supported when updating SLEDs in an MCM setup (Only clear job queue is
supported).
• Online catalog was used for firmware update of Chassis and Sleds.
Time taken for firmware update of MX7000 chassis and multiple sleds
Target
Time taken
Comments
9 member chassis
1h 21 m
Firmware version- 1.10 to 1.20
43 sleds
1h 44m
Each sled had 8 DUPs to update.
Components: iDRAC, BIOS, iSM, NIC, SEP, OS
collector, OS driver pack, BackPane
4.3 Test setup and results of the Configuration Deployment feature in
OpenManage Enterprise 3.4 (tested on a single MX7000 sled)
Test setup:
• Test configuration:
- Dell EMC MX7000 chassis
- 2 Dell EMC MX840C sleds with 4 network cards and 2 FC card
- 4 MX5108n IOMs
• Identity migration was performed from one Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840c server to another similar
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840c server. The identities selected for deployment include virtual MAC
address, virtual iSCSI MAC address, virtual FIP MAC address, virtual WWPN, virtual WWNN for FC
and FCoE, and iQN. Few other attributes from BIOS, iDRAC, Lifecycle Controller, NIC, and FC were
also deployed and verified for migration.
Test results:
• The time taken to perform identity and VLAN deployment took 28 mins. The time taken is based on
the identity attributes that were selected for deployment along with the four attributes per FQDD.
• The time taken to perform deployment increases when more number of attributes are selected for
performing a configuration operation.
• The time taken to perform migrations is almost double the time taken to perform deployments.
Server configuration, identity, and VLAN deployment
Operation performed
Server configuration, identity, and VLAN
deployment
Time taken to perform identity and VLAN
deployment
28m
Time taken to perform identity + VLAN
migration to another server in same chassis
56m