Dell OpenManage Causing Periodic Slowness

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Published on 2010-03-23T01:48:01Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 1:51 UTC
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Today we diagnosed the cause of a Periodic slowness issue: see here.

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator seems to have been causing hourly slowness. It would occasionally peg one of the CPUs for upwards of two minutes. Disabling it drastically improved the performance of the SQL Server.

The server hardware:

Dell R710
Dual Quad Core 2.9GHz Processors
96GB Memory
2 Disk RAID 1 SAS System Disk (Internal)
4 Disk RAID 10 SAS Log Disk (Internal)
14 Disk RAID 10 SAS Data Disk (External DAS MD1000)
Windows 2008 Enterprise R2 x64

We installed the OS using Dell OpenManage Server Assistant, so I assume that it was correctly configured.

For now we have disabled OMSA to alleviate the performance issues it was causing, but I'd like to be able to re-enable it.

Has anyone had a similar experience that can shed a little light on the nature of this problem?

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