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System Update Scalability
The scalability of System update is an important consideration for IT administrators of Enterprise
Business, Medium Business and Small Business customers.
Test environment and methodology
The scalability and performance tests for Dell OME were performed on the following environments
 Small business customer’s environment: This environment consisted of 100 managed
systems. For example, a customer having 80 Dell PowerEdge Servers, 10 Dell EqualLogic
storage devices and 10 Dell PowerConnect switches.
 Medium business customer’s environment: Medium business environment consisted of 500
managed systems.
 Enterprise business customer’s environment: This environment consisted of 2000 managed
systems.
The hardware and software configuration of OME was different for these environments. Please refer
to Table 1 for more details.
Table 3. Test Environments for OME1.1
Test Configuration Test Environment
Small Business Medium Business Enterprise Business
NO. of Managed Systems 100 500 2000
RAM used on OME system 4 GB 6 GB 8 GB
Processor cores 2 cores 4 cores 8 cores
Operating System on which OME
was installed Windows
Server 2008
x86 Standard
Edition SP2
Windows Server
2008 x64
Standard Edition
R2
Windows Server
2008 x64
Enterprise Edition
SP2
Database version and Location SQL 2008
Express (Local)
SQL 2008
Standard R2
(Local)
SQL 2008 Enterprise
R2 (Remote)
Note: “Local” in the “Database version and Location” implies that the database is to be installed on
the same machine as OME. “Remote” implies that the database is to be setup on a different machine