QCT Data Warehouse Fast Track (DWFT) Solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 – 50 TB Executive Summary: Solution to Large Database Challenges Today’s ever-changing business world relies more than ever on the generation, collection, and analysis of data. While enterprises had a limited time window to load large quantities of data, were routinely querying large data volumes that often required full table scans and multi-pass queries, the performance of the data warehouse to reduce query execution times became the most critical topic for IT. The QCT Data Warehouse Fast Track (DWFT) Solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 configured by the high performance system Quanta Grid D51B-2U server with S3610 1.6TB SSD enterprise grade flash storage built for SQL data warehouse demand up to 50 TB in size. This solution can solve large database challenges with a good price-to- performance ratio, reduced maintenance and ensured high performance to address business analytics on growing data volumes. This solution features the following highlights: • Pre-tuned, fast query performance that is optimized running intensive query workloads and validated by Microsoft • Ease of deployment and scalability through pre-integration and modular architecture design • Built-in high availability through hardware + software design The configuration by QCT has a Row Store rated I/O: 5,649 Mbps Column Store throughput: 1,637Queries/Hr/TB TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Executive Summary 2. SQL DWFT Program 3. D51B-2U Server 4. Solution Config. 5. RA Certification SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS Certified 50 TB SQL DWFT solution by QCT Pre-tuned DW with fast queries and less integration effort Best-in-class HW with both WS2016 SDDC and SQL DWFT validated
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QCT Data Warehouse Fast Track (DWFT) Solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 – 50 TB
Executive Summary:
Solution to Large Database Challenges
Today’s ever-changing business world relies more than ever on the
generation, collection, and analysis of data. While enterprises had a
limited time window to load large quantities of data, were routinely
querying large data volumes that often required full table scans and
multi-pass queries, the performance of the data warehouse to reduce
query execution times became the most critical topic for IT.
The QCT Data Warehouse Fast Track (DWFT) Solution for Microsoft SQL
Server 2016 configured by the high performance system Quanta Grid
D51B-2U server with S3610 1.6TB SSD enterprise grade flash storage
built for SQL data warehouse demand up to 50 TB in size.
This solution can solve large database challenges with a good price-to-
performance ratio, reduced maintenance and ensured high
performance to address business analytics on growing data volumes.
This solution features the following highlights:
• Pre-tuned, fast query performance that is optimized running intensive query workloads and validated by Microsoft
• Ease of deployment and scalability through pre-integration and modular architecture design
• Built-in high availability through hardware + software design
The configuration by QCT has a Row Store rated I/O: 5,649 Mbps
Column Store throughput: 1,637Queries/Hr/TB
TABLE OF CONTENT
1. Executive Summary
2. SQL DWFT Program
3. D51B-2U Server
4. Solution Config.
5. RA Certification
SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS
Certified 50 TB SQL DWFT solution by QCT
Pre-tuned DW with fast queries and less integration effort
Best-in-class HW with both WS2016 SDDC and SQL DWFT validated
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Microsoft Data Warehouse Fast Track
Microsoft Data Warehouse Fast Track is a joint effort between Microsoft and its
hardware partners, QCT for instance, to deliver validated, pre-configured solutions
that reduce the complexity and risk of implementing an SMP data warehouse based
on SQL Server Enterprise Edition. The Fast Track program provides flexibility of
solutions and customer choice across hardware vendors’ technologies, and uses the
core capabilities of the Windows Server operating system and SQL Server to deliver a
balanced SMP data warehouse with optimized performance.
QCT QuantaGrid D51B-2U Server
Full-Featured Energy Efficient 2-Socket Server
QuantaGrid D51B-2U is a general-purpose rackmount server designed for optimal
performance and power efficiency. It supports up to 1.5 TB highly scalable memory
capacity and up to twelve 3.5” or twenty-four 2.5” hot-swappable HDD for complex
and demanding workloads, such as mail-server, database, e-commerce and high-
performance computing (HPC).
Greener and More Powerful
Powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3, v4 product family and DDR4
memory technology, the QuantaGrid D51B-2U allows owners to upgrade computing
performance without overextending power consumption. With QCT’s enhanced
thermal design, the server can operate under ambient temperatures as high as 40˚C.
This allows owners to save unnecessary costs associated with datacenter cooling
needs and achieve higher data center infrastructure efficiency (DCIE) value.
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Full-Featured Design for Demanding Storage and Computing Workload
Host bus adapters LSI 3108-8i R6 Mezz Card (12Gbps)
Storage
Network adapters Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro (Dual-Port, SFP+, 10GbE)
Storage Array In-Server
Disk Drives 24 * 1.6TB SATA SSDs for SQL database storage
Storage Information
Option 1: 24 * 1.6TB SATA SSD for Data, TempDB and Log (Raid 10)
Option 2: 4 * 1.6TB SATA SSD for Log (Raid 10); 20 * 1.6TB SATA SSD for Data and TempDB (Raid 5)
Table1: Hardware Configuration
Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Enable .NET Framework 3.5 & 4.6
- Set Powershell ExecutionPolicy as “Unrestricted”.
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- Change Power Options to “High Performance”
- Format SQL Storage as NTFS and create a path/mount point under C: drive, e.g.
C:\mounthead
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Microsoft SQL Server 2016 During Microsoft SQL Server 2016 installation, update default directories to SQL Storage mountpoint/path (e.g. C:\mounthead) for Data, Log and TempDB.
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Below settings are used in running Microsoft Data Warehouse Fast Track tests:
2-Socket 4-Socket Comments
Hyper Threading ON ON
Fast Trace DB size 1 TB 2 TB
SQL Max memory 118 GB 236 GB
Startup Parameter -E –T1117 -E –T1117
Startup Parameters (optional)
-T834 -T834 Enable large pages
# of Session for IO and CPU stress test
12,24* 12,24*,48 *By default, this will be used for certification.
Row Store Setting
Resource Governor (RG)
12% 12%
Degree Of Parallelism (DOP)
0 0 Setting of zero in the tool is same as setting it to # of logical processor per socket.
Column Store Setting
RG 12% 25%
DOP System LP
count System LP
count
Total # of logical processors (double the # of cores if HT is ON).
A run with DOP = 0 is also suggested.
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Resource Governor RG setting:
SQL Max Server Memory setting:
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To add Startup Parameters, open SQL Server Configuration Manager, click on SQL Server Services and select Properties:
Add parameters: -E, -T1117 and -T834
Restart SQL Server after new startup parameters applied.
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Reference Architecture Certification
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