We found that replacing four older Supermicro servers with one new Supermicro H14 Hyper Dual Processor with two AMD EPYC 9475F processors could generate over $2.8M in TCO savings over five years. Here’s the story:
Many of the go-to apps and technologies we use throughout the day are possible because of fast, reliable transactional database servers that can keep up with increasingly complex workloads and surges in demand. For the businesses that rely on those databases, the idea of upgrading server hardware may seem like rocking the boat. But older equipment may hold back company performance and growth by requiring more systems to meet demand, generating higher maintenance and energy costs, and introducing a greater risk of component failure and expensive downtime. By migrating to a consolidated database environment with the latest generation of servers and processors, companies can drastically reduce operating expenses, future-proof their infrastructure, and provide improved levels of transactional database performance for their customers for years to come.
To assess the potential cost savings and database performance benefits of server upgrades and consolidation, we used an industry-standard benchmark to compare the database new orders per minute (NOPM) performance of two server solutions: a new Supermicro H14 Hyper DP server with 5th Generation AMD EPYC 9475F processors and a five-year-old Supermicro Ultra DP server with previous-generation AMD EPYC 7532 processors. We also captured each server’s power utilization data so we could calculate energy efficiency metrics and extrapolate that data for total cost of ownership (TCO) projections.
We found that the Supermicro H14 Hyper DP with two AMD EPYC 9475F processors was able to handle 3.78 times the database transactions of the legacy Ultra DP server—meaning one new H14 Hyper DP could replace four of the older servers. The H14 Hyper DP also provided up to 65.1 percent better performance per watt—a substantial gain in energy efficiency. With that data, we calculated that over five years, the TCO difference for consolidating four legacy servers into a single Supermicro H14 Hyper DP—which would generate savings on software licensing, power utilization, rack and data center space, and maintenance—could save an organization as much as $2.8 million per new server. That’s a huge level of savings for businesses of any size!
Our results show that by consolidating the workloads of older Supermicro servers onto newer H14 Hyper DP servers, businesses can benefit from both performance boosts and serious ongoing cost savings for years to come—two factors that can have direct positive impacts on company success.
To dig into the details of our transactional database performance comparison tests and TCO calculations, check out the report, infographic, and video below.
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