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Microsoft SQL Server 2016 on

Hyper Converged Infrastructure

using VMware vSphere 6 T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R

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Microsoft SQL Server 2016 on Hyper Converged Infrastructure using VMware vSphere 6

Executive summary .......................................................................................................................................... 3

Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 3

HPE Hyper Converged 380 family .............................................................................................................. 4

Solution overview ............................................................................................................................................. 4

Solution components ....................................................................................................................................... 6

Hardware .................................................................................................................................................... 6

Software ...................................................................................................................................................... 8

Application software .................................................................................................................................... 8

Best practices and configuration guidance for the solution .............................................................................. 8

Capacity and sizing ................................................................................................................................... 10

Scale-up scenario ..................................................................................................................................... 10

Scale-out scenario .................................................................................................................................... 12

Consolidation scenario .............................................................................................................................. 14

Analysis and recommendations ................................................................................................................ 18

Summary ....................................................................................................................................................... 19

Resources and additional links ...................................................................................................................... 19

Executive summary

Target audience:

Document purpose:

Introduction

HPE Hyper Converged 380 family

Solution overview

Figure 1.

Resources and

additional links

Figure 2.

Figure 3.

Solution components

Hardware

4 HC 380 Nodes

Figure 4.

Figure 5.

Figure 6.

Software

Application software

Best practices and configuration guidance for the solution

Resources and additional links

Resources and

additional links

” Resources and additional links

Capacity and sizing

Scale-up scenario

Table 1.

Drive Used for VSA Volume Name Adaptive Optimization SIZE

Figure 7.

Table 2.

VM Core/memory Database size Batch requests/sec -k value

Figure 8.

Scale-out scenario

16 vCPU/32 GBRAM

32 vCPU/64 GBRAM

40 vCPU/156 GBRAM

64 vCPU/256 GBRAM

Scale-up Results

Table 3.

Drive Used for VSA Volume Name Adaptive Optimization Size

Figure 9.

Figure 10.

Consolidation scenario

Table 4.

Drive Used for VSA Volume Name Adaptive Optimization Size

No of VMs = 1 No of VMs = 2 No of VMs = 3 No of VMs = 4

Scale-out

IOPS Batch Requests/Sec

Figure 11.

Tier 0 consolidation case

Table 5.

No. of VMs VM Core/memory Database size Batch requests/sec -k Value

Multi-tier consolidation case

Storage

enabled

disabled

Figure 12.

Memory

Figure 13.

Analysis and recommendations

Summary

Resources and additional links HPE Hyper Converged systems

hpe.com/info/hyperconverged

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/convergedsystems/hyper-converged/pip.hyper-converged-

300.1008591219.html

http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c05102727

http://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA4-9000ENW

http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c05102727

hpe.com/info/RA

hpe.com/servers

hpe.com/storage

hpe.com/networking

hpe.com/us/en/services/consulting.html

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/getpdf.aspx/4AA6-7774ENW.pdf?ver=1.0

vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/solutions/sql-server-on-vmware-best-practices-

guide.pdf

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189573.aspx

About the Authors

D.S Ravishankar, SQL Engineer, HPE Maurice De Vidts, Lead SQL Engineer, HPE Kannan Mani, Principal Product Manager – Data Platforms, HPE Niran Chen Evan, Staff Solutions Architect, VMware Deji Akomolafe, Staff Solutions Architect – Microsoft Applications Lead, VMware Don Sullivan, Product Line Marketing Manager for Business Critical Applications, VMware

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Scott Salyer (VMware), Joe Sullivan, Don Wilson, Kimberly Kato, Said A. Syed, Rudy Castillo, Jodie Jordanger and Janet Runberg (HPE)

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