Consolidation of server infrastructure has transformed from a routine task of IT departments to a strategic project for CIO. The main goal is to transfer workloads from outdated, ineffective systems to fewer productive servers without wasting speed code or interrupting business processes.

According to Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager of Compute \u0026 Enterprise AI at AMD, proper consolidation of a server park results in rack space, reducing software licensing costs..

86% fewer servers with saved productivity.

The transition to the 5th generation of AMD EPYC processors allows organizations to speed up their physical inventory while saving physical labor..

A practical application of mathematics for a daily data center:.

Consolidation formula:.

100 dual-processor Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8280 servers (100? 28 cores? 2 sockets \u003d 5,600 cores).

can be replaced with up to 14 servers based on AMD EPYC 9965 (14? 192 cores? 2 sockets \u003d 5,376 cores).

Economical and operational effect of such a replacement:.

Reduced the number of servers: by 86% (from 100 to 14 units);

Change in energy consumption: by 69%;

Decrease in TCO (TCO): by 41% over the 3rd period;

Savings on software: a radical change in the number of processor cores and sockets can save millions of dollars on licensed virtualization (for example, VMware/Hyper-V) and DBMS (Oracle, MS SQL),.

In addition, AMD has already announced the 6th generation of AMD EPYC “Venice” processors, which will expand the capacity to 256 cores per processor.

Practical case: evidence from the stock brokerage company DNSE.

The Vietnamese online brokerage company DNSE Securities has faced the need to increase the computational effort of its data center through regulatory efforts to localize data.

Having introduced the 3rd and 4th generations of AMD EPYC processors, the company has achieved the following results:.

Shorter counters: the number of server counters has changed twice (-50%);

Reduced energy consumption: energy consumption per rack dropped from 16–17 kW to 7–9 kW;

Flexibility: 90% of all services have been transferred to EPYC (high-frequency processors up to 5 GHz for exchange trading with low latency and high-core chips for containerized add-ons).

Availability of resources for agent-based intelligence.

The main strategic gain from consolidation is the creation of an infrastructure reserve under the expansion of the existing data center (without the creation of new areas).

Agentic AI generates colossal background activity: the skin of the AI \u200b\u200bagent initiates a cascade of queries to databases, API calls, token generation and tool creation. Consolidation of traditional enterprise add-ons provides power, cooling and stability under the installation of AMD Instinct power adapters and AMD Pensando edge adapters.

Increasing the effect of server park consolidation.

Evaluation parameters.

Traditional infrastructure (Intel Xeon 5-7 years old).

Consolidated ecosystem (5th Gen AMD EPYC).

Number of servers.

100 systems (2U/1S-2S).

14 systems (saving extra FLOPS).

Zagalne energospozhivannya.

100% (basic rhubarb).

Reduced by 69%.

Cumulative varty volodinnya (3 rocks TCO).

100% (basic rhubarb).

Saving 41%.

Licensing costs (Core-based).

Visoki (for 5,600 old cores).

Minimal (for 5,376 highly efficient cores).

Exercising under tension.

Weekly (refilled racks and kW limit).

A reserve has been created for GPU and AI-inference.

HiTech Expert Take.

Server consolidation based on the x86 architecture of AMD EPYC allows IT directors to optimize budgets without the risks of flexible migration to alternative architectures (such as Arm). Shorter energy consumption by 69% and license costs combined with high density cores (up to 192 cores and up to 256 for the Venice generation) make AMD EPYC an ideal foundation for hybrid data centers,.

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