We showed that by replacing three older Supermicro servers with one new Supermicro H14 Hyper Dual Processor with two AMD EPYC 9474F processors, businesses could generate over $1.7M in TCO savings over five years. Here’s the story:
Transactional databases serve as the operational fuel for many of the businesses that provide the products and services we use every day. Whether a company is relying on database infrastructure to power finance, e-commerce, logistics, supply chain, online booking, or myriad other critical data-driven functions, they need systems that are responsive and reliable—even as user demand scales. If older servers are currently getting the job done, decision-makers may not be thinking about investing in new server hardware. But relying on old technology could limit performance, leave potential cost savings on the table, and ultimately hinder future growth. The right upgrade could pay off in more ways than one.
To assess the potential cost savings and database performance benefits of server consolidation with newer hardware, 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 4th Generation AMD EPYC 9474F 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 our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis.
We found that the Supermicro H14 Hyper DP with two AMD EPYC 9474F processors was able to handle 3.17 times the database transactions of the legacy Ultra DP server—meaning one new H14 Hyper DP could replace three of the older servers. The H14 Hyper DP also provided up to 49.6 percent better performance per watt—a substantial improvement in energy efficiency. With that data, we calculated that over five years, the TCO difference for consolidating three 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 $1.7 million per new server.
Our results show that businesses that decide to consolidate the database workloads of older Supermicro servers onto newer H14 Hyper DP servers could benefit from serious cost savings for years to come—and get significant performance boosts. That’s the kind of investment that pays off for companies of any size!
To dig into the details of our transactional database performance comparison tests and TCO calculations, check out the report below.
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