Managing Sql Sprawl With Hp Poly Serve

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03/05/23 1Managing SQL Sprawl – 26th June 2008

Managing SQL Sprawl with HP PolyServeBreakfast Briefing

Thursday 26th June 2008

For the benefit of all attendees, please ensure mobile phones are switched off

Welcome




Agenda09:00 Introduction Ian Jauncey - Chairman, Itex

09:05 PolyServe Solutions Nick Coombs, PolyServe Product Specialist, Hewlett Packard

09:25 PolyServe Demonstration Phil Newman, PolyServe Product Specialist, Hewlett Packard

09:45 Q&A

09:55 Summary and Close Ian Jauncey




Evolution

• Business needs growing• Server costs reducing• Virtualisation creating sprawl




Itex and Hewlett Packard• Itex worked with HP for over 30 years• Itex focused on HP servers and storage for over 10

years• Itex is an HP preferred partner

© 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

PolyServeSQL Consolidation

Nick Coombs

Who’s PolyServe – A Hewlett-Packard Company

• Innovative Systems Software Company− Founded in 1999− Background: NUMA-Q OS Team from Sequent

Computer• Strong Customers

− Over 500 customers− Thousands of nodes in production− Mostly mission-critical data center deployments− Delivery real utility computing today

• Strong Partnerships− HP: Worldwide NAS OEM deal− Novell: Core Data Center Linux partner− Microsoft: Endorsed as preferred NAS cluster

partner− Microsoft and Novell are also end user customers− Oracle: OSCP and 10g Certifications

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SQL - Customer Challenge

Server Sprawl

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Uneven Server Utilization•Over-provision for peaks & future•Dedicated servers to simplify planning•Dedicated servers to limit failure impact

Many Management Points•Increases Maintenance Windows

High-cost High Availability•Waste passive servers•Configure identical servers•Intervene on failed failovers

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The PolyServe Solution

HP Database Utility for SQL Server

• Dynamic Re-Hosting™ for Optimization

−Stack multiple instances−Buy only what you need−React in 30 seconds

• Guaranteed High Availability for All

−All servers are active−Guaranteed, mixed failovers – Fan out

• One-Click Maintenance−Dynamic Re-Hosting™ for offload and upgrades−Hot insertion of mixed servers and storage −One Windows install per server−Push installs and hot fixes

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MATRIX MANAGER

SHARED DATA

SQL 7 SQL 8 SQL 10SQL 9

SQL 12 SQL 13 SQL 14

SQL 1

SQL 6

SQL 2 SQL 3

SQL 5

SQL 4 SQL 5

SQL 12SQL 11 X

PolyServe Matrix Server• Cluster File System

− All nodes can read and write all data concurrently

− Up to 16 nodes per cluster− Any mix of node sizes and speeds− Full support for Linux and Windows− Certified by Oracle and Microsoft− Mix OS levels in one cluster− Mix PolyServe levels in one cluster

• High-Availability Services− Fault tolerance using standard

servers− Full classic clusterware features− Full n:1, n-m monitoring and failover

• Cluster Volume Manager− Virtualize storage across multiple

LUNs or arrays− Striping, concatenation, online file

system growth

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Total Cost of Ownership

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Source: IDC

Server Environment AverageFive-Year Total Cost of Ownership

(non-virtualized)

Microsoft Recognition

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Benefits

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•Reduction in Physical Servers•Rack Space – 2A per server•Power - £2,207 per server over three years (7pence per kWh, PUE=2.5)•C02 Emissions – 13.56 Tonnes per server over three years•Software Licenses – SQL, Backup, …•Software Maintenance – SQL, Backup, …•Management Costs•Agility – Decrease New Application deployment times•Availability – HA for all servers at no extra cost•Disk Space – Typical 33% reduction of Shared Storage


Thank You

Nick Coombs07703 [email protected]




Managing SQL Sprawl with HP PolyServe

• Q&A• Summary• What next?• Close

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Tools (Appendix)

Easy Path From Sprawl to the SQL Server Utility

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• Graphical Tool That Automates Process− Auto-discovers databases− Moves databases selectively− Auto-creates new databases

• Migrate SQL Server 2000 or Upgrade to SQL Server 2005• From standalone or clustered• From DAS or SAN

• Safe, Proven and Repeatable Process− Manages source back up− Stages steps with validation− Documents steps in reports

Migration Tool Capabilities• Supported migration scenarios:

− SQL 2000 to SQL 2000− SQL 2000 to SQL 2005− SQL 2005 to SQL 2005

• What the tool does:− Migrate user databases− Migrate SQL logins− Migrate Linked/remote servers− Migrate SQL jobs

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Connection String Management – Instance Alias Tool

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Multiple Virtual IPs each with a Default named instance (port 1433) are hosted per physical cluster node

Connection

201.25.2.100

SQL Data

serv1

SQL Server(Default) (1433)

Client1Application

serv1

201.25.2.100:1433

serv1

SQL Data

201.25.2.1poly1

SQL Server(NInst1) (40001)

201.25.2.2poly2

SQL Server(NInst2) (40002)

1433 40001

1433

201.25.2.100:1433

40001

Client Connection Strings Don’t Change

201.25.2.100 (VSQL1)201.25.2.102 (VSQL3)

201.25.2.101 (VSQL2)201.25.2.103 (VSQL4)

201.25.2.104 (VSQL5)

Migrate instance

Migrate IP(optional)

Alias


Thank You

Nick Coombs07703 [email protected]