An Intel Xeon 6 processor-powered server with 512GB DRAM & memory tiering offered 35% lower memory-related hardware costs vs. 1 TB of DRAM.
SAN JOSE, CA, UNITED STATES, August 17, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — As memory costs rise, organizations are figuring out how to balance hardware costs with database performance. Principled Technologies (PT) has released a report examining how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 memory tiering can affect memory cost, capacity, and online transaction processing (OLTP) performance on an Intel Xeon 6 processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R770 server. The hands-on study compared three configurations on the same server: 1 TB of DDR5 DRAM, 512 GB of DDR5 DRAM, and 512 GB of DDR5 DRAM plus a dedicated NVMe® drive with 512 GB configured for memory tiering.
PT ran a HammerDB TPROC-C workload across database VMs and measured throughput in new orders per minute…