
A Principled Technologies test report 2
Web server performance: Dell servers
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The purpose of this report is to demonstrate how Dell servers can meet the needs of businesses’ Web
servers no matter the size or demand. Selecting a server that can handle the number of requests you incur is
crucial, as a Microsoft Bing™ study found that a 2-second slowdown in answering requests is equivalent to up
to a 4.3 percent reduction in revenue per user.
We tested the following servers to gauge how many Web
server requests each server could handle:
Dell PowerEdge T110
Dell PowerEdge T310
Dell PowerEdge R310
Note that the actual
number of requests or
transactions servers can handle
in a particular company’s
environment is highly dependent
on both the hardware and the
complexity of the specific Web
application. Our analysis can,
however, give end-users a
relative indication of how much
load each server can bear.
Figure 1 shows the WSTest 1.5 results, in requests per second, for the three Dell servers. The Dell
PowerEdge T110 server supported 8,274 requests per second, the Dell PowerEdge T310 server supported
13,154 requests per second, and the Dell PowerEdge R310 server supported 21,190 requests per second.
WHAT WE TESTED
For our workload, we used the WSTest 1.5 Web services benchmark (WSTest), which is part of
Microsoft .NET StockTrader Portfolio version 2.04 (.NET StockTrader), a benchmark application that simulates
an online stock-trading scenario, demonstrating how Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Source: Schurman, E. (Microsoft) and Brutlag, J.(Google). 2009, “Performance Related Changes and their User Impact,” O’Reilly Velocity 2009, San
Jose, CA.
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Dell PowerEdge T110 Dell PowerEdge T310 Dell PowerEdge R310
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WSTest 1.5 results
Figure 1: WSTest 1.5 results, in requests per second, for the test servers.
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