The HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server enables consolidation of multiple SQL Server instances onto fewer servers and centralized storage. It provides high availability, virtualization-like flexibility, scalable capacity allocation, and instance mobility. Key features include an adaptive SQL platform, consolidated data management, and high availability for mission-critical applications. It goes beyond consolidation and failovers to meet Microsoft's SQL Server Always On requirements, making it ideal for database consolidation.
This document provides a step-by-step guide for configuring distributed data center virtualization using Windows Virtual Server 2005 R2, Sanbolic's Melio File System, and Microsoft Clustering Services. Key steps include installing required software, configuring a two-node Microsoft Clustering Services cluster, creating virtual machines and storage on a SAN, and configuring resources to allow active virtual machines to migrate across physical hosts while maintaining access to shared storage.
- The document discusses the basics of Windows clustering and quorum models. It defines what clustering is and why it is used for high availability of critical applications.
- It covers the differences between Windows 2008 and 2012 clustering capabilities. Windows 2012 supports more nodes, built-in iSCSI, and file/storage services.
- Common clustering terms are defined like active/passive, heartbeat network, shared disks, quorum, cluster resources, and groups.
- Quorum configuration options are reviewed including typical settings, adding witnesses, and advanced configurations. Quorum helps ensure only one cluster remains active if communication is lost.
This document provides an overview of SQL Server clustering. It discusses the importance of high availability and introduces some key concepts in clustering like nodes, shared storage, heartbeats, failover and failback. It also covers the basic architecture of a SQL Server cluster, including the virtual server and different types of clusters. Some advantages and disadvantages of clustering are outlined. Finally, it discusses some terminology used in clustering and provides a checklist for preparing Windows clustering.
The document outlines features and capabilities of Windows Server 2012 R2 including file and storage services, networking, clustering, Hyper-V, Windows PowerShell, remote desktop services, and directory services and security. It discusses new capabilities and enhancements in areas such as SMB, storage spaces, data deduplication, Hyper-V, and Active Directory. The presentation aims to provide an overview of the key components and updates in Windows Server 2012 R2.
The document discusses new features in Windows Server 2008 including offline files, failover clustering, and distributed file system. It provides an agenda that will review these new features, demonstrate how to access offline files and configure failover clustering and distributed file system. Resources for learning more about Windows Server 2008 such as online courses, books, and certification paths are also listed.
VMmark 2.5.2 virtualization performance of the Dell EqualLogic PS6210XS stora...Principled Technologies
Virtualization is a critical part of data center computing. For your virtualization solution to succeed, it is essential that you have a storage platform capable of delivering the performance and capacity needed for a virtualized environment in a cost effective way. The Dell EqualLogic PS6210XS array, paired with a cluster of Dell PowerEdge M620 servers, ran 12 VMmark tiles for a total of 96 running VMs, and achieved a score of 14.80@12. This performance, along with its value and ease of management, make the Dell EqualLogic PS6210XS array an excellent investment.
The document discusses clustering and high availability for Microsoft servers. It defines key clustering terms and describes four types of clustering: high performance computing, component load balancing, network load balancing, and server clustering. It provides an overview of clustering for Exchange Server and SQL Server, including requirements and configuration details.
VirtualCenter Database Maintenance: VirtualCenter 2.0.x and ...webhostingguy
This technical note discusses ways to maintain the VirtualCenter database for increased performance and manageability. It covers database backup and recovery, reducing database privileges, improving performance through purging old data and enabling automatic statistics, and upgrading SQL Server. The document provides guidance on installing VirtualCenter with SQL Server, including using supported versions, separating critical files onto separate drives, sizing the database, selecting the appropriate recovery model, avoiding the master database, setting up a new database, and creating a system DSN.
This document provides a step-by-step guide for configuring distributed data center virtualization using Windows Virtual Server 2005 R2, Sanbolic's Melio File System, and Microsoft Clustering Services. Key steps include installing required software, configuring a two-node Microsoft Clustering Services cluster, creating virtual machines and storage on a SAN, and configuring resources to allow active virtual machines to migrate across physical hosts while maintaining access to shared storage.
- The document discusses the basics of Windows clustering and quorum models. It defines what clustering is and why it is used for high availability of critical applications.
- It covers the differences between Windows 2008 and 2012 clustering capabilities. Windows 2012 supports more nodes, built-in iSCSI, and file/storage services.
- Common clustering terms are defined like active/passive, heartbeat network, shared disks, quorum, cluster resources, and groups.
- Quorum configuration options are reviewed including typical settings, adding witnesses, and advanced configurations. Quorum helps ensure only one cluster remains active if communication is lost.
This document provides an overview of SQL Server clustering. It discusses the importance of high availability and introduces some key concepts in clustering like nodes, shared storage, heartbeats, failover and failback. It also covers the basic architecture of a SQL Server cluster, including the virtual server and different types of clusters. Some advantages and disadvantages of clustering are outlined. Finally, it discusses some terminology used in clustering and provides a checklist for preparing Windows clustering.
The document outlines features and capabilities of Windows Server 2012 R2 including file and storage services, networking, clustering, Hyper-V, Windows PowerShell, remote desktop services, and directory services and security. It discusses new capabilities and enhancements in areas such as SMB, storage spaces, data deduplication, Hyper-V, and Active Directory. The presentation aims to provide an overview of the key components and updates in Windows Server 2012 R2.
The document discusses new features in Windows Server 2008 including offline files, failover clustering, and distributed file system. It provides an agenda that will review these new features, demonstrate how to access offline files and configure failover clustering and distributed file system. Resources for learning more about Windows Server 2008 such as online courses, books, and certification paths are also listed.
VMmark 2.5.2 virtualization performance of the Dell EqualLogic PS6210XS stora...Principled Technologies
Virtualization is a critical part of data center computing. For your virtualization solution to succeed, it is essential that you have a storage platform capable of delivering the performance and capacity needed for a virtualized environment in a cost effective way. The Dell EqualLogic PS6210XS array, paired with a cluster of Dell PowerEdge M620 servers, ran 12 VMmark tiles for a total of 96 running VMs, and achieved a score of 14.80@12. This performance, along with its value and ease of management, make the Dell EqualLogic PS6210XS array an excellent investment.
The document discusses clustering and high availability for Microsoft servers. It defines key clustering terms and describes four types of clustering: high performance computing, component load balancing, network load balancing, and server clustering. It provides an overview of clustering for Exchange Server and SQL Server, including requirements and configuration details.
VirtualCenter Database Maintenance: VirtualCenter 2.0.x and ...webhostingguy
This technical note discusses ways to maintain the VirtualCenter database for increased performance and manageability. It covers database backup and recovery, reducing database privileges, improving performance through purging old data and enabling automatic statistics, and upgrading SQL Server. The document provides guidance on installing VirtualCenter with SQL Server, including using supported versions, separating critical files onto separate drives, sizing the database, selecting the appropriate recovery model, avoiding the master database, setting up a new database, and creating a system DSN.
The switching method you choose for your SBC environment can help determine performance and the experience that end-users have. We found that unifying switching with Cisco VM-FEX resulted in up to 29 percent lower latency than a solution using a traditional vSwitch when running a Citrix XenApp hosted shared desktop farm. Furthermore, the Cisco VM-FEX solution used up to 53 percent less CPU than the vSwitch solution did under extreme network conditions. In addition to these performance advantages, Cisco UCS Manager provides a central point of management and a simplified method to add vSphere hosts to the VM-FEX-enabled vSwitch, which can reduce management time and costs.
As our results show, switching to Cisco VM-FEX can provide your users with a more responsive environment.
This document provides an overview of new features in SQL Server 2005, including SQLCLR which allows writing functions, procedures and triggers in .NET languages. It discusses how to install and debug SQLCLR assemblies, and create user-defined data types and aggregates that can extend the functionality of SQL Server. Key enhancements to T-SQL are also summarized, such as common table expressions, ranking commands, and exception handling.
Veerendra Patil has over 10 years of experience designing, implementing, and administering high availability NetBackup master and media servers, as well as Enterprise Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage. He has experience migrating over 50 NetBackup catalogs across various platforms and complex cluster migrations. Additionally, he has expertise installing and configuring Veritas NetBackup, CommVault, VMware, Windows servers, Linux distributions, and various storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, and HP.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper V server overviewaboobakar sanjar
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run on a single machine by dividing the physical hardware resources into virtual machines. Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtualization technology built into Windows Server. It uses a hypervisor to allocate resources to guest VMs. Benefits include reduced costs, high availability, centralized management, and increased efficiency. Hardware requirements include virtualization support from the CPU and enabled data execution prevention. Key Hyper-V components include virtual switches, virtual hard disks (VHD/VHDX files), and child partitions.
This is my 75 minutes "highlights" presentation on what's new in WS2012 R2. It's not all encompassing - intended just to get across the key points of the core OS. It followed a "Cloud OS" keynote and preceded a "System Center hybrid cloud" presentation.
This document discusses considerations for planning Oracle VM 3 server pool deployments for scalability, availability, and reliability. It describes key concepts of Oracle VM 3 including Oracle VM Manager, Oracle VM Server, and server pools. Server pools group multiple physical servers with shared storage so virtual machines can run on any server and live migrate between servers. The document provides best practices for configuring server pools for high availability, including enabling high availability options, sizing the server pool file system, using live migration, ensuring excess pool capacity, and planning multiple pools for large infrastructures.
Windows server 2012 R2 private cloud virtualization and storageSathishkumar A
Windows Server 2012 R2 improves storage and virtualization capabilities including:
1. Scale-out file servers allow storage of virtual machine files on file shares with high performance similar to a SAN.
2. Storage Spaces provides storage virtualization using storage pools and virtual disks (storage spaces) with attributes like resiliency and tiers.
3. Failover clustering now detects physical storage and network failures for virtual machines even if the storage is not cluster managed, and moves VMs to maintain access and connectivity.
TechMentor 2012: What's new in Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-VHarold Wong
Windows Server 2012 includes several improvements over previous versions such as support for more virtual processors and memory per virtual machine, unlimited live migration and storage migration, and larger virtual disk sizes up to 64TB. It also includes new features like storage pools, SMB 3.0 file share virtual disks, guest clustering over Fibre Channel, and secure offloaded data transfer.
Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014: ...Principled Technologies
As this guide has shown, installing and configuring a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2014 powered by the Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases is a straightforward procedure. A key benefit from implementing DAAD 2.0 into your infrastructure is the ability to accelerate workloads without a complete storage area network redesign. This can be ideal for businesses that have snapshot and deduplication features within their software stack or are looking to improve database performance without investing in large storage solutions that may contain features they do not need. Consider DAAD 2.0 for your business—a storage acceleration solution that requires only 4U of rack space and can potentially give your database workloads a boost.
Database performance and memory capacity with the Intel Xeon processor E5-266...Principled Technologies
The Dell PowerEdge M620 offers 24 memory slots, 50 percent more than the 16 slots offered by the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, which enables the Dell solution to provide greater performance while delivering memory error protection. We found that the Dell PowerEdge M620 solution, built on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600v2 Series, delivered 182.2 percent more database performance and 92.0 percent faster response times than the previous version Intel Xeon E5-2640 processor-based HP ProLiant BL460c Gen 8 solution, while providing 12.5 percent more available memory and error protection. The additional memory capacity of the Dell solution allowed us to engage FRM technologies and still have more overall RAM capacity compared to the 16-slot HP server. The Dell PowerEdge M620 offered maximum memory capacity and protection with Fault Resilient Memory to keep your database workloads running strong and available for your business needs.
The document provides information about fundamentals of Windows Server 2008-R2 including chapters on installation of Server 2008, planning storage solutions, Active Directory, creating users and groups, FSMO roles, DHCP server, and child domain controllers. The key points discussed are the minimum hardware requirements for Server 2008, different storage technologies and RAID levels, components of Active Directory like objects and domains, commands for creating users and groups, roles of FSMO components, advantages of additional domain controllers, and concepts related to DHCP servers like scopes, address pools, and reservations.
Resource balancing comparison: VMware vSphere 6 vs. Red Hat Enterprise Virtua...Principled Technologies
Having ample resources to handle user requests is a necessity of modern virtualization solutions. Allocating and distributing those resources evenly, however, is imperative to the success of your business’s virtualized environment. In our tests, after powering on the other two servers in our three-node cluster and adding resource management features, VMware vSphere 6 improved performance by 183 percent over its baseline configuration of one active server and no resource management features. RHEV 3.5, in contrast, delivered only a 79 percent increase over its baseline. As you design your business’s infrastructure and applications, improvements such as those offered by VMware vSphere 6 DRS and Storage DRS can play a critical role by offering your users better application experiences. Optimized and modern resource management provided by VMware DRS can also help to lower your IT purchase and maintenance costs by reducing the number of servers necessary to run your applications.
Compact, high-performing servers and streamlined software are a necessity for any data center that provides multi-tier hosted Web solutions, cloud services, or other scale-out implementations. Customers need quick access to Web applications that power their business, and the databases that power those Web applications. In our tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge C6220 server with an open-source LAMP software stack was able to complete up to 38,793 orders per minute for one Web site, 79,759 orders per minute for two Web sites, and 119,758 orders per minute for four Web sites – all while providing the flexibility, efficiency, and maintenance features that large-scale deployments require.
This document discusses virtualization and provides guidance on virtualizing servers. It covers:
- Reasons for virtualization like increased server utilization and efficiency
- Steps for planning virtualization including addressing organizational challenges
- Factors for identifying good candidates for virtualization like application vendor support
- Best practices for the virtualization process including establishing a baseline and testing
- Potential issues to watch out for called "gotchas" and hints to improve performance
- Case studies on how Allstate and Accenture benefitted from virtualization.
1) VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 combined with Diablo Memory Channel Storage allows hosting large SQL Server databases in a single virtual machine without performance degradation.
2) Testing showed the combination could support over 100,000 I/O operations per second with latency under 1 millisecond, outperforming all-flash storage arrays which bottlenecked around 40,000 IOPS.
3) The combination provides unprecedented database performance, density, and cost savings by running databases alongside other workloads on a common converged infrastructure platform.
Populating your data center with new, more powerful and energy efficient servers can deliver numerous benefits to your organization. By consolidating multiple older servers onto a new platform, you can save in the areas of data center space and port costs, management costs, and power and cooling costs.
In our tests, we found that the Lenovo ThinkServer RD630 could consolidate the workloads of three HP ProLiant DL385 G5 servers, while increasing overall performance by 82.6 percent and reducing power consumption by 58.8 percent, making the ThinkServer RD630 an excellent choice to reduce the costs associated with running your data center.
This document discusses QNAP's TVS-ECx80+ Edge Cloud Turbo vNAS series:
1. It provides centralized management of multiple NAS units through Q'center CMS, allowing monitoring of system status, firmware updates, and logs from one interface.
2. File Station allows easy file management, sharing, and media playback from any browser, along with features like quick search, thumbnails, and a recycle bin.
3. The Qfile mobile app provides access to NAS files on the go for browsing, sharing, and streaming multimedia.
This document summarizes new features in SQL Server 2008 R2 including management, scalability, availability, and business intelligence enhancements. Key updates include improved multi-server management with the SQL Server Utility, data-tier application management, increased virtualization support through Hyper-V, Master Data Services, StreamInsight for complex event processing, PowerPivot for self-service reporting, and new premium editions for high scalability. It also provides an overview of SQL Server 2008 R2 editions and licensing changes.
Introduction to microsoft sql server 2008 r2Eduardo Castro
In this presentation we review the new features in SQL 2008 R2.
Regards,
Ing. Eduardo Castro Martinez, PhD
http://comunidadwindows.org
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - Ten Reasons to Choose Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R...Microsoft Private Cloud
SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides a comprehensive data platform with built-in security, availability, and scalability. It allows for server consolidation to reduce hardware costs, supports virtualization for further cost savings, and ensures high availability and disaster recovery. In addition, it improves performance and scalability for business applications and data warehousing, and enables self-service business intelligence for greater efficiencies.
Microsoft SQL Server - Best Ever Data Platform on Windows PresentationMicrosoft Private Cloud
This document summarizes the benefits of using SQL Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 together. It highlights how this combination can help businesses reduce costs through server consolidation and virtualization, improve high availability, efficiently manage infrastructure with built-in tools, and gain scalability to support more demanding workloads. The integrated platform is presented as providing better performance, manageability, and value than alternatives from vendors like VMware.
The switching method you choose for your SBC environment can help determine performance and the experience that end-users have. We found that unifying switching with Cisco VM-FEX resulted in up to 29 percent lower latency than a solution using a traditional vSwitch when running a Citrix XenApp hosted shared desktop farm. Furthermore, the Cisco VM-FEX solution used up to 53 percent less CPU than the vSwitch solution did under extreme network conditions. In addition to these performance advantages, Cisco UCS Manager provides a central point of management and a simplified method to add vSphere hosts to the VM-FEX-enabled vSwitch, which can reduce management time and costs.
As our results show, switching to Cisco VM-FEX can provide your users with a more responsive environment.
This document provides an overview of new features in SQL Server 2005, including SQLCLR which allows writing functions, procedures and triggers in .NET languages. It discusses how to install and debug SQLCLR assemblies, and create user-defined data types and aggregates that can extend the functionality of SQL Server. Key enhancements to T-SQL are also summarized, such as common table expressions, ranking commands, and exception handling.
Veerendra Patil has over 10 years of experience designing, implementing, and administering high availability NetBackup master and media servers, as well as Enterprise Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage. He has experience migrating over 50 NetBackup catalogs across various platforms and complex cluster migrations. Additionally, he has expertise installing and configuring Veritas NetBackup, CommVault, VMware, Windows servers, Linux distributions, and various storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, and HP.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper V server overviewaboobakar sanjar
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run on a single machine by dividing the physical hardware resources into virtual machines. Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtualization technology built into Windows Server. It uses a hypervisor to allocate resources to guest VMs. Benefits include reduced costs, high availability, centralized management, and increased efficiency. Hardware requirements include virtualization support from the CPU and enabled data execution prevention. Key Hyper-V components include virtual switches, virtual hard disks (VHD/VHDX files), and child partitions.
This is my 75 minutes "highlights" presentation on what's new in WS2012 R2. It's not all encompassing - intended just to get across the key points of the core OS. It followed a "Cloud OS" keynote and preceded a "System Center hybrid cloud" presentation.
This document discusses considerations for planning Oracle VM 3 server pool deployments for scalability, availability, and reliability. It describes key concepts of Oracle VM 3 including Oracle VM Manager, Oracle VM Server, and server pools. Server pools group multiple physical servers with shared storage so virtual machines can run on any server and live migrate between servers. The document provides best practices for configuring server pools for high availability, including enabling high availability options, sizing the server pool file system, using live migration, ensuring excess pool capacity, and planning multiple pools for large infrastructures.
Windows server 2012 R2 private cloud virtualization and storageSathishkumar A
Windows Server 2012 R2 improves storage and virtualization capabilities including:
1. Scale-out file servers allow storage of virtual machine files on file shares with high performance similar to a SAN.
2. Storage Spaces provides storage virtualization using storage pools and virtual disks (storage spaces) with attributes like resiliency and tiers.
3. Failover clustering now detects physical storage and network failures for virtual machines even if the storage is not cluster managed, and moves VMs to maintain access and connectivity.
TechMentor 2012: What's new in Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-VHarold Wong
Windows Server 2012 includes several improvements over previous versions such as support for more virtual processors and memory per virtual machine, unlimited live migration and storage migration, and larger virtual disk sizes up to 64TB. It also includes new features like storage pools, SMB 3.0 file share virtual disks, guest clustering over Fibre Channel, and secure offloaded data transfer.
Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014: ...Principled Technologies
As this guide has shown, installing and configuring a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2014 powered by the Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases is a straightforward procedure. A key benefit from implementing DAAD 2.0 into your infrastructure is the ability to accelerate workloads without a complete storage area network redesign. This can be ideal for businesses that have snapshot and deduplication features within their software stack or are looking to improve database performance without investing in large storage solutions that may contain features they do not need. Consider DAAD 2.0 for your business—a storage acceleration solution that requires only 4U of rack space and can potentially give your database workloads a boost.
Database performance and memory capacity with the Intel Xeon processor E5-266...Principled Technologies
The Dell PowerEdge M620 offers 24 memory slots, 50 percent more than the 16 slots offered by the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, which enables the Dell solution to provide greater performance while delivering memory error protection. We found that the Dell PowerEdge M620 solution, built on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600v2 Series, delivered 182.2 percent more database performance and 92.0 percent faster response times than the previous version Intel Xeon E5-2640 processor-based HP ProLiant BL460c Gen 8 solution, while providing 12.5 percent more available memory and error protection. The additional memory capacity of the Dell solution allowed us to engage FRM technologies and still have more overall RAM capacity compared to the 16-slot HP server. The Dell PowerEdge M620 offered maximum memory capacity and protection with Fault Resilient Memory to keep your database workloads running strong and available for your business needs.
The document provides information about fundamentals of Windows Server 2008-R2 including chapters on installation of Server 2008, planning storage solutions, Active Directory, creating users and groups, FSMO roles, DHCP server, and child domain controllers. The key points discussed are the minimum hardware requirements for Server 2008, different storage technologies and RAID levels, components of Active Directory like objects and domains, commands for creating users and groups, roles of FSMO components, advantages of additional domain controllers, and concepts related to DHCP servers like scopes, address pools, and reservations.
Resource balancing comparison: VMware vSphere 6 vs. Red Hat Enterprise Virtua...Principled Technologies
Having ample resources to handle user requests is a necessity of modern virtualization solutions. Allocating and distributing those resources evenly, however, is imperative to the success of your business’s virtualized environment. In our tests, after powering on the other two servers in our three-node cluster and adding resource management features, VMware vSphere 6 improved performance by 183 percent over its baseline configuration of one active server and no resource management features. RHEV 3.5, in contrast, delivered only a 79 percent increase over its baseline. As you design your business’s infrastructure and applications, improvements such as those offered by VMware vSphere 6 DRS and Storage DRS can play a critical role by offering your users better application experiences. Optimized and modern resource management provided by VMware DRS can also help to lower your IT purchase and maintenance costs by reducing the number of servers necessary to run your applications.
Compact, high-performing servers and streamlined software are a necessity for any data center that provides multi-tier hosted Web solutions, cloud services, or other scale-out implementations. Customers need quick access to Web applications that power their business, and the databases that power those Web applications. In our tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge C6220 server with an open-source LAMP software stack was able to complete up to 38,793 orders per minute for one Web site, 79,759 orders per minute for two Web sites, and 119,758 orders per minute for four Web sites – all while providing the flexibility, efficiency, and maintenance features that large-scale deployments require.
This document discusses virtualization and provides guidance on virtualizing servers. It covers:
- Reasons for virtualization like increased server utilization and efficiency
- Steps for planning virtualization including addressing organizational challenges
- Factors for identifying good candidates for virtualization like application vendor support
- Best practices for the virtualization process including establishing a baseline and testing
- Potential issues to watch out for called "gotchas" and hints to improve performance
- Case studies on how Allstate and Accenture benefitted from virtualization.
1) VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 combined with Diablo Memory Channel Storage allows hosting large SQL Server databases in a single virtual machine without performance degradation.
2) Testing showed the combination could support over 100,000 I/O operations per second with latency under 1 millisecond, outperforming all-flash storage arrays which bottlenecked around 40,000 IOPS.
3) The combination provides unprecedented database performance, density, and cost savings by running databases alongside other workloads on a common converged infrastructure platform.
Populating your data center with new, more powerful and energy efficient servers can deliver numerous benefits to your organization. By consolidating multiple older servers onto a new platform, you can save in the areas of data center space and port costs, management costs, and power and cooling costs.
In our tests, we found that the Lenovo ThinkServer RD630 could consolidate the workloads of three HP ProLiant DL385 G5 servers, while increasing overall performance by 82.6 percent and reducing power consumption by 58.8 percent, making the ThinkServer RD630 an excellent choice to reduce the costs associated with running your data center.
This document discusses QNAP's TVS-ECx80+ Edge Cloud Turbo vNAS series:
1. It provides centralized management of multiple NAS units through Q'center CMS, allowing monitoring of system status, firmware updates, and logs from one interface.
2. File Station allows easy file management, sharing, and media playback from any browser, along with features like quick search, thumbnails, and a recycle bin.
3. The Qfile mobile app provides access to NAS files on the go for browsing, sharing, and streaming multimedia.
This document summarizes new features in SQL Server 2008 R2 including management, scalability, availability, and business intelligence enhancements. Key updates include improved multi-server management with the SQL Server Utility, data-tier application management, increased virtualization support through Hyper-V, Master Data Services, StreamInsight for complex event processing, PowerPivot for self-service reporting, and new premium editions for high scalability. It also provides an overview of SQL Server 2008 R2 editions and licensing changes.
Introduction to microsoft sql server 2008 r2Eduardo Castro
In this presentation we review the new features in SQL 2008 R2.
Regards,
Ing. Eduardo Castro Martinez, PhD
http://comunidadwindows.org
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - Ten Reasons to Choose Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R...Microsoft Private Cloud
SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides a comprehensive data platform with built-in security, availability, and scalability. It allows for server consolidation to reduce hardware costs, supports virtualization for further cost savings, and ensures high availability and disaster recovery. In addition, it improves performance and scalability for business applications and data warehousing, and enables self-service business intelligence for greater efficiencies.
Microsoft SQL Server - Best Ever Data Platform on Windows PresentationMicrosoft Private Cloud
This document summarizes the benefits of using SQL Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 together. It highlights how this combination can help businesses reduce costs through server consolidation and virtualization, improve high availability, efficiently manage infrastructure with built-in tools, and gain scalability to support more demanding workloads. The integrated platform is presented as providing better performance, manageability, and value than alternatives from vendors like VMware.
Consolidating database servers onto Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 can reduce costs and increase responsiveness to change. It allows organizations to reduce hardware, software, storage and operational costs by standardizing, gaining efficiencies through centralized management, and ensuring business continuity. Consolidation provides flexibility to deploy and manage database resources in response to changing business needs.
The Evolution of SQL Server as a Service - SQL Azure Managed InstanceJavier Villegas
Managed Instance provides a fully managed SQL Server database hosted on Azure PaaS that allows existing SQL Server applications to be migrated to the cloud with minimal changes. It provides near 100% compatibility with on-premises SQL Server along with the management and scalability benefits of PaaS. Key capabilities include built-in high availability, automated backups, isolation within a VNet, and the ability to migrate databases with minimal downtime.
Datavail Accelerates AWS Adoption for Sony DADC New Media Solutions PPTAmazon Web Services
Sony DADC New Media Solutions, a large digital media company, discovered they could migrate their SQL Servers to AWS and run them using an Amazon EC2 solution allowed them to replicate their SQL Server environments in multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZ), meaning that if a node failed in one AZ, it could be replicated in another to ensure almost no downtime and improved performance.
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 is a server virtualization product that provides the following key benefits:
1) It allows efficient use of hardware resources through virtualization and features like improved performance, greater scalability with 64-bit host support, iSCSI support, and host clustering support.
2) It offers the best supported server virtualization solution with features like Windows server guest optimization, broad guest OS compatibility, and resource management policies.
3) It enhances administrator productivity and responsiveness by enabling automated deployment and configuration of virtual machines, and allowing virtual machines to be managed using existing server management tools.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides tools and features to optimize performance for both individual servers and large databases. It allows databases to scale up using a single server's resources more efficiently or scale out across multiple servers. Key features include the Resource Governor to control resource allocation, Performance Studio to monitor instances across an enterprise, and partitioning to enhance concurrency and reduce disk contention. SQL Server 2008 also supports techniques like peer-to-peer replication and Service Broker to scale out databases across multiple servers.
Quickly Deploy Microsoft Private Cloud and SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse on ...Hitachi Vantara
Learn how you can virtualize and optimize your Windows applications and workloads while accommodating growth with Microsoft® Private Cloud and SQL Server 2012 running on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform.
You can create building blocks for a cloud environment that is reliable, scalable, multitenant and multi-tiered with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Microsoft Private Cloud.
Also, the Hitachi solution for a medium-sized Microsoft SQL Server data warehouse enables your enterprise to consolidate silos for enterprise-wide business intelligence and scale your data warehouse to hundreds of terabytes.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers capabilities to scale database operations, improve efficiency for IT and developers, and enable self-service business intelligence. It provides enhanced analytics, reporting, data warehouse scalability up to hundreds of terabytes, master data management, and complex event processing. These features help organizations more effectively manage and gain insights from large and growing volumes of data.
Virtualization can help reduce costs, increase business continuity, and create a more agile database infrastructure. It allows consolidating physical servers onto fewer virtual servers to reduce hardware, software, and operational costs. Virtualization also makes it easier to implement high availability strategies to ensure business continuity and minimize planned and unplanned downtime. Additionally, virtualization increases agility by enabling simpler and faster deployment of database servers as well as dynamic scaling of resources based on business needs.
Virtualization can help reduce costs, increase business continuity, and create a more agile database infrastructure. It allows consolidating physical servers onto fewer virtual servers to reduce hardware, software, and operational costs. Virtualization also makes it easier to implement high availability solutions and reduce planned downtime. Additionally, virtualization increases agility by enabling simpler and faster deployment of database servers as well as dynamic scaling of resources based on business needs.
Microsoft SQL Server - Reduce Your Cost and Improve your Agility PresentationMicrosoft Private Cloud
This document discusses server consolidation using SQL Server 2008 R2. It begins by describing the trend toward consolidation to reduce costs by combining underutilized servers onto fewer servers. Key enablers of consolidation include advances in software, hardware, virtualization and improved bandwidth. SQL Server 2008 R2 provides benefits for consolidation such as low TCO, security, manageability and support for virtualization. The document reviews options for consolidating servers using SQL Server 2008 R2, including multiple databases, multiple instances and virtualization. It also discusses management, high availability, security and reducing storage requirements when consolidating with SQL Server 2008 R2.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 - Enterprise for Mid Market Organizations DatasheetMicrosoft Private Cloud
SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise helps organizations reduce costs, improve productivity and optimize business processes through high performance, scalability, availability and advanced security features. It allows for server consolidation, virtualization, data compression and centralized management to lower hardware and storage costs. The platform also provides powerful business intelligence and data warehousing capabilities to help organizations gain insights from data and make better business decisions.
In this session, we explain how the new version of SQL Server will improve database operations, advance security and compliance and bring advanced analytics to all your data workloads.
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1. QuickSpecs HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server
Product Overview
The HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server enables multiple SQL Server instances to be consolidated onto substantially
fewer servers and centralized SAN storage. The unique "shared data" architecture of the HP PolyServe software delivers enterprise
class availability and virtualization-like flexibility in a utility platform.
Unlike server virtualization and traditionally high availability products, it goes beyond just consolidation and simple failovers to
provide scalable capacity allocation, on-the-fly instance mobility, and meets Microsoft's SQL Server Always On requirements, making
it the ideal solution for database consolidation.
Key features include:
Adaptive, Scalable SQL Server Platform
Consolidated Data Management
High Availability for Mission-Critical Applications
What Is the HP PolyServe The HP PolyServe for Microsoft SQL Server software enables multiple SQL Server instances to be
Software for Microsoft consolidated onto substantially fewer servers and centralized SAN storage. PolyServe's unique "shared
SQL Server? data" architecture delivers enterprise class availability and virtualization-like flexibility in a utility platform.
Unlike server virtualization and traditionally high availability products, it goes beyond just consolidation
and simple failovers to provide scalable capacity allocation, on-the-fly instance mobility, and meets
Microsoft's SQL Server Always On requirements, making it the ideal solution for database consolidation.
Key features of the HP PolyServe software include:
1. Adaptive, Scalable SQL Server Platform
Dynamic Re-Hosting™ to quickly deploy, stack or reallocate SQL Server instances to any
server
Add server, blade, and storage capacity without disrupting existing operations
Only server consolidation solution that provides enterprise class availability and
virtualization-like flexibility
2. Consolidated Data Management
"Shared Data" architecture maximizes consolidation while providing ultimate flexibility in
data structure configuration for database administrators
Single, shared pool of resources simplifies storage allocation, backup, and configuration
tasks
Enables a shared services model for more efficient staff utilization and budget
allocation
3. High Availability for Mission-Critical Applications
Reliable, easy to manage high availability for all instances
"One-Click" and "Roll-Through" maintenance pushes updates or hot fixes to all servers
Qualified and supported solution in Microsoft SQL Server Always On program
The HP PolyServe software supports HP ProLiant Servers and SAN storage arrays. Installation and
optimization services are available to help customers successfully migrate from SQL Server 2000 to
2005 or 2008.
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Product Benefits
SQL Server Consolidation Customers have experienced SQL Server count and storage footprint reduction of over 75%, leading to
hard cost savings and a reduction of datacenter facility power consumption. Additionally, improvements
in operational efficiency contribute to three year total cost of ownership (TCO) reduction of 50%.
High Availability for Provides less than 30 second failover architecture for SQL Server databases that drastically reduces both
Mission-Critical planned and unplanned downtime.
Applications
Real-time Resource Dynamic Re-Hosting provides Instance Mobility, the ability to move SQL Server instances from one server
Allocation Adjustments to another with less than 30 seconds of downtime, to optimize resources based on shifting workloads
Scale System Capacity Add server, blade, and storage capacity without disrupting existing operations
Online
Simplify Infrastructure Reduce the time required to perform routine system and storage administration tasks by up to 75%.
Management "One-Click" and "Roll-Through" maintenance pushes updates or hot fixes to all servers
"Shared Data" Designed The "Shared Data" architecture provides the ultimate flexibility in data structure configuration allowing
for Database DBAs to tune for performance, security, and manageability while still deriving the benefits of
Consolidation and consolidation and high availability.
Management
Shared Services Model The leading Enterprise-wide consolidation platform for SQL Server that enables a standardized Shared
Services model for better SLA achievement and easier cost allocations, all at a lower cost structure.
Qualified and Supported Qualified and supported solution in Microsoft SQL Server Always On program, having met a set of SQL
Solution by Microsoft Server I/O requirements focused on reliability and high performance.
(http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/high-availability.aspx)
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Product Highlights
SQL Server Versions SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2005. SQL Server 2000 is supported only during upgrade process
Supported
Integrated High Database health monitoring and automated failover with active-active and many-many
Availability
Support for Alternate Provides full support of Microsoft's ADS format. ADS is used to provide extended file information for
Data Streams (ADS) applications.
HA support for MS Transaction coordinator that ensures successful and complete transactions, even with system failures.
Distributed Transaction
Coordinator (DTC)
HA support for SQL Delivers online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining functionality for business intelligence
Server Analysis Services applications.
(SSAS)
Dynamic Re-Hosting™ Dynamically Re-Hosting instances to a new server within 30 seconds.
"One-Click" Maintenance Push installs, hot-fixes and upgrades to every failover target with a single mouse click.
Backups / Snapshots Support for SQL Server's Database Backup snapshots, storage array based backup and 3rd party
backup solutions.
Fast Recovery Quickly reboot with database fast recovery via Database Consistency Checker
Operating Systems 64-bit only: Windows Server 2008 SP2
Supported
Storage Protocols Network-attached fiber channel (FC) and iSCSI (based on Microsoft Initiator).
Supported
Servers Supported per Scale from 2 to 16 nodes.
Cluster
General-Purpose Run Windows-compatible applications such as backup and restore, anti-virus, and line-of-business
Applications applications directly on a PolyServe Utility server to offload SQL Server servers.
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4. QuickSpecs HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server
Product Technical Details
The HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server is an integrated product that allows a collection of servers and SAN storage to
be managed as a single entity for hosting many SQL Server databases. It is made up of several components that work together:
Matrix Server, which provides shared data clustering and allows a set of servers to be managed as a unit.
Cluster Volume Manager, which allows storage from multiple arrays to be used and managed as a unit.
Database Utility for SQL Server, which adapts the core shared data clustering capabilities of the previous two components for
use with SQL Server.
Matrix Server
Matrix Server runs on Windows Server 2008 SP2. It allows up to 16 servers to form a shared data cluster, with a single storage pool
and a single management point for applications. A basic block diagram of a typical deployment is shown below.
A typical Matrix Server environment consists of Intel- or AMD-based HP ProLiant industry-standard servers or BladeSystems, a
storage area network (connected via fibre channel or iSCSI), one or more HP storage arrays attached to the SAN, and one or more
standard Ethernet networks linking the servers. Matrix Server itself includes these capabilities:
A cluster file system that allows multiple servers to access the same storage simultaneously
A high-availability and application control engine that monitors hardware and software health and can restart and move
applications within the cluster
A single management console called Matrix Manager that allows the status of all hardware and software resources in the
cluster to be viewed at a glance and controlled from one location.
Support for industry-standard servers and storage. Use 32- or 64-bit Intel Opteron or Intel E64T servers, of any configuration.
Utilize industry-standard storage connected via fiber channel (FC) or iSCSI.
Cluster Volume Manager (CVM)
Matrix Server provides the foundation for the Database Utility for SQL Server by allowing a set of servers to access shared file
systems simultaneously and thus to be managed as a single unit. The Cluster Volume Manager provides an analogous capability for
storage. It allows disk space from multiple storage arrays to be used and managed as a single pool.
With the CVM, an administrator can create a single volume from free space on multiple arrays (or in multiple LUNs on a
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Product Technical Details
single array). In this way a file system can make use of whatever storage is available.
The CVM also allows a volume to be striped across multiple arrays. This can improve I/O rates by aggregating the
performance of the arrays, which is especially useful for sequential workloads frequently associated with data warehouses2.
Through concatenation or striping, CVM permits the construction of huge file systems that exceed the typical 2TB limit on the
size of individual LUNs.
In some environments, it is customary to configure every storage array with a set of LUNs of a fixed size-say, 30 gigabytes.
The CVM allows a server administrator to construct file systems of whatever sizes are desired using these fixed LUNs.
Finally, if a file system is becoming too full, the CVM can be used to expand the file system, without taking the cluster down,
using free space from any array accessible to the cluster.
Database Utility for SQL Server
The final necessary ingredient is an integration layer that applies the core capabilities of Matrix Server and Cluster Volume Manager
to SQL Server. This layer, called the Database Utility for SQL Server, includes:
A SQL Server health monitor that periodically probes SQL Server instances within the cluster to ensure that client requests are
being successfully handled. This will detect if a SQL Server instance hangs, even if the operating system and hardware remain
healthy.
A SQL instance virtualizer that allows the creation of a "Virtual SQL Server." A virtual SQL Server is an adaptation of the Matrix
Server virtual host concept. It consists of a virtual IP address that clients use to connect, a specified primary server in the
cluster, a prioritized list of backup servers, and from one to 16 associated SQL Server instances. If a server fails, the virtualizer
will move the virtual IP address to the top server in the list that is capable of hosting the virtual SQL server; it then restarts the
database instances in the new location. Note that, unlike server virtualization, the SQL instance virtualizer component itself is
not active during normal operation. Thus there is no performance penalty; SQL runs at full native speed, with native access to
all hardware resources. The virtualizer also ensures that a given database is only ever accessed from one server at a time,
since SQL Server is not designed to allow multiple server concurrent access.
A SQL Server registry replicator. SQL Server stores some configuration information in the Windows registry, which is located
on each server's individual C: drive. To ensure this information is available to other servers in the cluster if a database
instance needs to move, the Database Utility includes a component that automatically replicates relevant registry information
into the cluster-wide shared storage.
A SQL installation and hotfix updater agent. To simplify installation of SQL Server and of hotfixes across multiple servers, the
Database Utility includes a push installer agent. The administrator simply places the appropriate installation packages in the
shared file system, then uses the push installer agent to perform installations or hotfix updates across the entire cluster-what
we call "one-click maintenance."
The Database Utility for SQL Server thus provides an easy way to move SQL Server instances within a cluster to improve
resource utilization, an easy path to complete high availability for all instances in the cluster, and a simple way of performing
typical SQL Server installation and maintenance tasks.
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6. QuickSpecs HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server
Optional Software Components
Optional Software HP OpenView Storage The HP OpenView Storage Data Protector software is enterprise data
Data Protector protection and disaster recovery, ensuring recovery from any disruption. Data
Protector integrates a variety of techniques to eliminate backup and recovery
windows. The capabilities to eliminate planned downtime range from online
backup and backup of open files to zero-downtime, zero-impact backup. The
software provides industry-leading instant recovery as well as several disaster
recovery alternatives to eliminate unplanned downtime, allowing recovery of
entire data centers in minutes.
Data Protector is enabling organizations to reduce costs by automating
routine tasks to maximize the effectiveness of the data protection staff. For the
price of an entry-level product, it provides the enterprise functionality
customers need. Data Protector scales from single server to distributed
enterprise, covering an extensive range of heterogeneous applications,
operating environments and storage configurations with a single solution.
The HP StorageWorks PolyServe Database Utility for SQL Server supports
using Data Protector as the backup software solution. For more information
on HP OpenView Data Storage Protector:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/
dataprotector/index.html
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7. QuickSpecs HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server
Service and Support, HP Care Pack, and Warranty Information
HP Care Pack Services. Scalable, Flexible, Dependable. Like your storage.
Your storage is evolving. Get scalable support that evolves with it. HP Care Pack Services is an easy-to-buy, easy-to-use portfolio of
packaged services covering your lifecycle needs. You can rely on our highly skilled, HP certified professionals to offer a breadth of
expertise across leading storage technologies, and work side by side with you for optimal results. Partner with HP Technology
Services to boost availability and avoid costly downtime by mitigating technology-related business risks. To help take the worry out of
deploying, supporting and managing your storage technologies, we've designed a portfolio of service options that are as flexible,
scalable and affordable as our storage.
Protect your business beyond the warranty
Standard warranty protects against product defects and some causes of downtime. HP Care Pack Services helps you proactively
guard against unplanned downtime which can reduce your productivity and profitability. By using a standard approach to warranty
uplifts, such as HP Care Pack Services, customers can be certain of consistency of operations for both mission-critical and standard
business computing.
Extending warranties with HP Care Pack Services
The key to normalizing the warranty of combined solutions-is making service uplift simple: HP Care Pack Services. This portfolio of
predefined packages, extending across the entire IT lifecycle, offering consulting, education, technical support, optimization, risk
assessment, and more. It's entirely flexible allowing customers to extend the cover to the precise level of support required. Customer's
standard hardware warranty, for example, can be upgraded to next-business-day response, to same-day coverage, or even to a
committed six-hour call-to-repair service available 24 hours every day of the week.
Provide consistent, predictable levels of support across your entire department or business
Give you direct access to proven technical and problem-solving expertise
Offer a choice of response-time and repair-time commitments
Are available whenever and wherever you do business
For many products, post-warranty HP Care Pack Services are available when your original warranty has expired. Choose the support
levels that meet your business requirements, from basic to mission-critical. In the new world of business technology, when your
technology has to work for your business to work, who can you trust to make your technology work? HP Technology Services, the
trusted business technology experts who manage your technology in action, because when technology works, business works.
http://www.hp.com/hps/storage
NOTE: Care Pack Services availability may vary by product and country.
Warranty and Services HP warrants only that the Software media will be free of physical defects for a period of ninety (90) days
Included with the Product from delivery.
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8. QuickSpecs HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server
Service and Support, HP Care Pack, and Warranty Information
Recommended Services HP Care Pack Services recommended for optimal satisfaction of all deployments of your product.
3-Year HP Support Plus 24 3-Year HP Support Plus 24 provides integrated hardware and software
support services designed specifically for your technology. HP Services
engineers deliver reactive onsite hardware support and over-the-phone
software support around-the-clock.
HP PolyServe Installation HP PolyServe Installation and Startup Service provides installation and
and Startup Service configuration of HP PolyServe software in your storage environment.
Required for new sales.
Product Number Product Name Service Name Care Pack Services
Product # and Band
HP PolyServe Installation HA114A1-57Q
and Startup Service
T5395BA/BAE HP PolyServe Database 3-Year HP Support Plus HA110A3-7EY
Utility Pack 1 CPU 24
LTU/E-LTU
T5395BBE HP PolyServe Database 3-Year HP Support Plus HA110A3-7EZ
Utility Pack 8 CPU E-LTU 24
Related Services Services that will enhance the user experience in many product deployments.
3-Year HP Proactive 24 3-Year HP Proactive 24 Service (P24) is an integrated hardware and software
support solution, which combines industry leading technical assistance with
proactive account services to cover the entire IT infrastructure and to improve
the stability, availability, and operational effectiveness of the IT environment.
HP Proactive Select Service HP Proactive Select Service improves IT performance and manageability
through the use of cost effective flexible proactive services. This proactive
service allows you to accelerate the ROI of your technology environment, by
tailoring specific services to more quickly take advantage of your investment.
Product Number Product Name Service Name Care Pack Alternate Care
Services Pack Service
Product # and Product #
Band
HP Proactive Contact your HP Contact your HP
Select Service sales rep or sales rep or
Channel Partner Channel Partner
for assistance for assistance
T5395BA/BAE HP PolyServe 3-Year HP HA111A3-7EY
Database Utility Proactive 24
Pack 1 CPU
LTU/E-LTU
T5395BBE HP PolyServe 3-Year HP HA111A3-7EZ
Database Utility Proactive 24
Pack 8 CPU E-LTU
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9. QuickSpecs HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server
Service and Support, HP Care Pack, and Warranty Information
eSupport HP eSupport is a portfolio of technology-based services that assist you with managing your business
environment - from the desktop to the data center.
Support Portal
The HP support portal provides one-stop access to the information, tools and services you need to
manage the daily operations of your IT environment.
Features include:
Access to self-solve tools (including search technical knowledge base)
Efficient logging and tracking of support cases
Collaboration with other business and IT professionals
Download of patches and drivers
Access to diagnostic tools
Proactive notification of relevant information
Access to certain features of the support portal requires an HP service agreement. To access the support
portal, visit: http://www.hp.com/support
Customer Technical Consider education as an integral part of your strategy to get the best return on investment for your HP
Training storage solution. HP offers a variety of training courses on storage software, networking, archiving and
disk storage systems. Our classes are available in many delivery modalities from traditional instructor-led
courses at one of our 80 training centers worldwide to on-site training customized to your needs or
online. www.hp.com/learn/storage
HP Services Awards HP Services continues to be recognized for service and support excellence by customers, partners,
industry organizations and publications around the world. Recent honors and award reflect our services
team's dedications, technical expertise, professionalism and uncompromising commitment to customer
satisfaction. For a list of all our awards, please visit:
http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/433028-0-0-225-121.html.
Additional Services For more information about HP Care Pack Services for Storage, please visit:
Information http://www.hp.com/hps/storage
If you have specific questions, contact your local HP representative. Contact information for a
representative in your area can be found at "Contact HP" http://www.hp.com
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Ordering Information
The HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server is licensed on a per CPU socket basis. Support must be ordered separately. For
example if you have 2 HP ProLiant DL585 servers with 4 dual-core CPUs (total of 8 CPU sockets) you would need to order the
following part numbers.
HP PolyServe Pack 8 CPU 1x T5395BBE
E-LTU
Plus one Installation and Startup service and one three-year support pack.
If you require a physical LTU then you need to order:
HP PolyServe 1 CPU LTU 8x T5395BA
HP PolyServe Software 1x T5392AA
Media CD
HP PolyServe software NOTE: Support must be ordered separately. HP PolyServe Installation and Startup service is required
with the purchase of a first cluster.
HP PolyServe Database The Database Utility Pack is comprised of the applicable T5395BA
Utility Pack 1 CPU LTU number of CPUs of each of the following Software
modules: (i) Matrix Server; (ii) Cluster Volume Manager;
and (iii) Database Solution Pack. This includes a physical
License-to-Use (LTU)
HP PolyServe Database The Database Utility Pack is comprised of the applicable T5395BAE
Utility Pack 1 CPU E-LTU number of CPUs of each of the following Software
modules: (i) Matrix Server; (ii) Cluster Volume Manager;
and (iii) Database Solution Pack. This includes an
electronic License-to-Use (E-LTU)
HP PolyServe Database The Database Utility Pack is comprised of the applicable T5395BBE
Utility Pack 8 CPU E-LTU number of CPUs of each of the following Software
modules: (i) Matrix Server; (ii) Cluster Volume Manager;
and (iii) Database Solution Pack. This includes an
electronic License-to-Use (E-LTU)
HP PolyServe Software Hard-copy product CDs T5392AA
Media CD
HP PolyServe Software Provides onsite installation and startup services for HP HA114A1#57Q
Installation and Startup PolyServe software products.
Upgrades Customers wishing to upgrade to version 4.0 must be running version 3.6.x. If a customer is currently
running a version of PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server earlier than version 3.6.X, they must
first upgrade to version 3.6.1 and than upgrade to version 4.0. For example a customer running version
3.4.0 would need to first upgrade to version 3.6.1 before upgrading to version 4.0. Customers wishing
to move to SQL version 2008 have a choice to upgrade from SQL version 2000 or 2005 or 2008.
However, only customers starting with SQL version 2005 can migrate to SQL version 2005 on HP
PolyServe Software version 4.0.
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