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6 Scalability and performance of Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials version 2.5
3 Test environment and methodology
The scalability and performance tests for OME were performed on the following environments:
• Small business environment: Consisted of 100 managed systems
• Medium business environment: Consisted of 500 managed systems
• Enterprise business environment: Consisted of 2000, 5500, and 8000 managed systems
The hardware and software configuration of OME was different for these environments. For more information,
see Table 1.
Table 1: Test environments for OME v2.5
Note: Local database location refers to database installed on the same system as OME. Remote refers to
database set up on a different system than that on which OME is installed. For more information about
installing Dell EMC OME by using a remote database, see the Dell OpenManage Essentials Install technical
white paper available on Dell TechCenter.
The primary focus of OME 2.5 scalability and performance tests is to collect and analyze the various
performance parameters for the following OME features:
• Discovery and inventory
• Health monitoring
• System update (patch) management
• Server Configuration management
• Events
Also, longevity and reliability tests were performed where certain features of OME were used at regular
intervals over a period of 3–4 weeks.
Test
Configuration
Test Environment
Small Business
Medium
Business
Enterprise Business
Number of
Managed
Systems
100
500
2000
5500
8000
RAM Used
[GB]
4
6
8
8
16
Processor
Cores [cores]
2
4
8
8
16
Operating
System
Windows Server
2008 R2
Standard Edition
Windows
Server
2008 R2
Standard
Edition
Windows
Server
2008 R2
Enterprise
Edition
Windows
Server
2012 R2
Datacenter
Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
Database
Version and
Location
SQL Server
2008 Express
[Local]
SQL
Server
2008
Standard
R2
[Local]
SQL
Server
2008 R2
Enterprise
[Remote]
SQL 2012
SP1
Enterprise
Edition
[Remote]
SQL 2012 SP1 Enterprise Edition
[Remote]
SQL DB Size
[GB]
1
2
6
10
14