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Aug 14, 2015
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Windows Server 2003 / SQL Server 2005 EOS: Upgrade with SanDisk Enterprise Flash Solutions
Microsoft WPC
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§ Windows Server reaches its end of life, end of support (EOS) on July 14, 2015
§ Estimated 23.8 million Windows Server 2003 instances running worldwide ‒ Half of those instances are physical and the other half virtual ‒ 41% of all Windows Server instances in small & medium businesses are still
running Windows Server 2003 ‒ 17% are running IIS, 1 out of 6 are running SQL Server 2005
Windows Server 2003 / SQL Server 2005 EOS It’s Time to Upgrade!
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76% of 23.8 million servers represented in 4 workloads
§ 3.8 million – Database – 1-in-6 instances of Windows Server 2003 run SQL Server 2005 which has an end-of-extended-support in April 2016
§ 7.6 million – Line-of-business (LOB) Applications
§ 3.6 million – Email & Collaboration
§ 3.6 million – File & Print
Key Workloads on Windows Server 2003 EOS
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Windows Server 2003 TPC-E Benchmark Results Example Result 1 Example Result 2 Example Result 3
Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Enterprise Edition x64 SP1
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x64
SP1
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition
x64
Database Server Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition x64 SP2
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition x64 SP2
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition x64 SP2
Server Dell PE2900 – one quad-core,
2.66GHz Intel Xeon X5355 processor, 48GB RAM
Dell PE2900 – two quad-core, 3.16GHz Intel Xeon X5460
processors (total 8 processor cores), 48GB of RAM
IBM System x3850 M2 – four quad-core, 2.93GHz Intel
Xeon X7350 processors (total 16 processor cores), 128GB
of RAM
Storage (How many rack units?)
Eight PowerVault MD1000 SAS Enclosures (total of 112 36GB 15K RPM 3Gbps SAS Disks)
16 PowerVault MD1000 SAS Enclosures with a total of 224 73GB 15K RPM 3Gbps SAS
Disks
Two IBM DS4800 storage systems connected to 24 IBM EXP810 storage enclosures
with a total of 384 36.4GB 15K RPM Disks
TpsE Score 144.81 268.00 419.80 Source: http://www.tpc.org/
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SanDisk Flash Removes the I/O Bottleneck • Dramatically Increasing Technical and Cost Efficiencies • Creating Immediate Savings with Optimized Infrastructure • Resulting in Breakthrough Database and Application Performance Acceleration
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SanDisk Flash Performance
Source: StorageIOblog; Sep 2009; http://storageioblog.com/data-center-io-bottlenecks-performance-issues-and-impacts/
HDD Performance
Server CPU Performance
Widening Performance Gap
Mega Trend: Legacy Storage I/O Bottleneck
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SQL Databases On SanDisk Flash
Database instances unable to meet SLAs for performance
IT department gets blamed for poor system performance, reliability Software cost continue to grow
Tarnished company brand/reputation, leading to lost revenue
Serve more customers while meeting SLAs
Database performance meets or exceeds business expectations
Lower licensing cost through database consolidation
Improved customer experience and productivity
SQL Databases Without Flash Leverage
How SanDisk Flash Solves SQL Database Performance
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Transaction Workloads (OLTP) on MS SQL Server
§ Transaction rates are accelerated with SSDs supporting SQL Server
§ Business Benefit: ‒ Faster performance for normal
(optimal) database operations ‒ Minimal change in performance,
even in event of failure ‒ Recover to optimal (RTO) in 1/8th
the time – days to hours 0
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HDD test – 300GB HDD: 32 Drive RAID 5 short stroked to 10% of capacity (Dual enclosures) SSD test – Lightening MU 400GB SanDisk SAS SSD: 4 Drive RAID 5 full size (in server)
SQL Server with SanDisk SSDs vs. 15k HDDs: Up to 7x higher performance, 10x better price/perf,ormance - 8x faster RTO
TpsE Score of 500 with just 4 SSDs
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Entire SQL Database on in-server Flash
Parts of SQL Database on in-server Flash (e.g., tempdb)
Cache data read from SAN on in-server Flash
Accelerate Replication, accelerate High Availability fail-over
Leverage ION Appliances as Shared Storage for SQL Clusters
FlashSoft®
Virtualized SQL Database For Mixed Workloads
Flexible SQL Upgrade Options to Meet Your Needs
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§ Increase business productivity – more transactions, faster § Improve customer experience – faster response times § Reduce costs – scale more users and workloads per server § Increase SLAs – faster SQL database startup and failover
SanDisk Enterprise Flash Unlocks Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Value
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Talk with our experts – Five Solution Stations:
Flash-Optimized SQL Server 2014 OLTP Solutions to Accelerate Transactional Performance
Flash-Optimized SQL Server Data Warehouse Microsoft Validated Solutions for Faster Analytics
Flash-Optimized Caching with FlashSoft®
Scale-up Performance for Workload Consolidation
Flash-Optimized Virtual Infrastructure Solutions to Increase VM Performance and Scale
SanDisk Enterprise Channel Partner Program Flash-Optimize Your Customers Data Center
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