Windows Server 2003 / SQL Server 2005 EOS: Upgrade with SanDisk Enterprise Flash Solutions

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Windows Server 2003 / SQL Server 2005 EOS: Upgrade with SanDisk Enterprise Flash Solutions

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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!


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


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/


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


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


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


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


§  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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Windows Server 2003 / SQL Server 2005 EOS: Upgrade with SanDisk Enterprise Flash Solutions