In the spirit of doing more with less, organizations wrestle with two major challenges – scalability and performance. The PowerEdge R920 is the latest 4-socket server from Dell that solves these challenges and many more.
At Dell, we continue to build workload-centric database solutions using the latest hardware releases to solve use cases centered on business needs. Here are a couple of initiatives that are underway to demonstrate how the PowerEdge R920 can solve both scalability and performance requirements for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server customers.
Performance boost for an Oracle OLAP database
Achieving performance boost is a broad quest and can lead to different approaches. It may be about packing in more users to process more business requirements in the same amount of time. Or it may be about lower latency and throughput so as to reduce the response time for each query. Either way, it’s about responding to the periodic spikes that a typical mission-critical database is put through. The reality is a periodic spike will become the normal load in the near future, and IT administrators are trying to get ahead of that curve.
Dell is developing Oracle OLAP architecture to show how the R920 can process a large amount of data exceptionally fast. Coupled with Compellent All Flash storage array, customers can process more than twice the number of queries than with the previous generation server configuration. Customers can also achieve more than twice the throughput to process larger data sets with more than twice reduction in latency.
Scalability through consolidation for Microsoft SQL Server databases
The second challenge that IT managers face revolves around scalability of processing power, storage data,memory footprint or even packing more databases in the same server. Consolidating databases in the same server leads to data center efficiency as well as easy IT administration. This diagram shows how Dell is developing Microsoft SQL Server consolidation architecture to include more databases than previous generation servers.
Coupled with EqualLogic PS6110XV arrays, we can pack 10 to 12 large SQL Server virtual machines on a Single R920 without any sacrifice on processing power.
A single R920 server can:
- Deliver up to 14,000-16,800 Application transactions at less than 200ms response time
- Support up to 18,000 database users
We are fine-tuning these findings and are finalizing the reference architectures in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for the impending release and additional materials.
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