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Scalability and performance test results of OpenManage Enterprise 3.4 (tested on multiple PowerEdge servers)
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• The firmware update was qualified with 200 servers in a single job. Devices more than 200 in a single
firmware update job is not supported.
• To test the scalability of the firmware update task, updates were pushed on 1,000 simulated devices and
the job failed gracefully without any unexpected error.
• In case of online catalog, the time taken for firmware update depends primarily on the download of DUPs.
Therefore, it is always recommended to have a high bandwidth network.
Test results of Firmware update of 200 Physical YX3X (13G) and YX4X (14G) servers with online
catalog
Test Environment
Test result
Number of servers updated
200
Time taken for firmware update
2h 45m
Number of Dups downloaded
55
Time taken to Download Dups
22m
Size of Dups downloaded
1.4GB
Task Execution Service Memory utilization (in KB )while testing the firmware upgrade feature for
200 servers of Dell EMCOpenManage Enterprise 3.4 on PowerEdge servers