In this presentation was used in the MSDN WebCast and we cover some details about the hardware offerings to run SQL Server DataWarehouse, some detail about HP Hardware is shown. Best Regards, Ing. Eduardo Castro Martinez http://ecastrom.blogspot.com

1. Ing. Eduardo Castro, PhD
ecastro@grupoasesor.net
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://comunidadwindows.org
http://tiny.cc/comwindows

3. Lower and High costs in deploying and maintaining disparate
streamline application solutions
CAPEX and
OPEX Protect your investment and lower TCO
Reduce Managing silos and layers of technology
complexity Deploying and implementing multiple solutions
Enable Need for dynamic solutions that self provision
Scalable
applications Highly scalable application across all workloads ensuring
business continuity
Align IT Dynamic IT solutions that respond to changing business
Business requirements
Needs Provide business intelligence and decision making capability

4. #1 technology provider and #1 software provider deliver next
generation datacenter and application platform
Integrated roadmap for converged application platforms, comprehensive
virtualization solutions, and integrated management offerings
Optimized performance, reliability, availability, and push button
simplicity for the industry’s top business applications
Automatically provision, manage, and continuously self-tuned across
datacenter and cloud environments
10X increased investment on more than 32,000 HP/Microsoft Frontline
partners, plus HP/Microsoft Global expertise, and comprehensive
services
Leverage existing data center investment with joint solutions that
are architected for today and future cloud environments

7. Take 1 big SAN
Add a little Server
Add a bigger Server
Add more networking

8. DISK DISK
FC A
SQL SERVER
CPU CORES
A
WINDOWS
FC SWITCH
SERVER
HBA B LUN
CACHE
CACHE
A STORAGE A
B CONTROLLER B DISK DISK
FC A
HBA B
B
LUN
CPU Feed Rate SQL Server HBA Port Rate Switch Port Rate SP Port Rate LUN Read Rate Disk Feed Rate
Read Ahead Rate

9. Supporting BI Data Storage Presentation Layer
Systems Systems Systems
Integration Analysis Services
Services ETL Cubes
Presentation Data
Presentation Data
Web Analytic
Data Path
Tools
Reporting
Services
SharePoint
Services
Dedicated Microsoft Office
SAN, Storage SharePoint
Data Warehouse PerformancePoin
Array Data Staging, t
Excel Services
Bulk Loading
Data Warehouse Scope
(dashed)

10. Fast Track Data Parallel Data
Enterprise BDW Appliance
Warehouse RA Warehouse
Appliance for high
Reference
Scalable and reliable Scalable and reliable end MPP Data
architectures offering
SMP platform for data platform for data Warehousing
best price
warehousing on any warehousing on any delivering highest
performance for data
hardware hardware scalability and
warehousing
performance
Ideal for data marts or
Ideal for data marts or
Ideal for large data small to mid-sized Ideal for high scale
small to mid-sized
marts or mid-sized data warehouses with or high performance
enterprise data
EDWs scan-centric data marts and EDWs
warehouses (EDWs)
workloads
Reference DW Appliance
Integrated Appliance
Architectures (Fully integrated
Software only (Software and
(Software and Software and
Hardware)
Hardware) Hardware)
Scale-Out DW with
Scale-Up DW Scale-Up DW Scale-Up DW
MPP
10s of terabytes <5 terabytes 5–80 terabytes 10s - 100s of TB
Software Assurance; Software Assurance;
3-Year Support Plus Mission Critical
Premier Mission Premier Mission
24 Advantage Program
Critical Support Critical Support

11. Effort to Build Very High Very Low Modera Modera Modera Modera Very Low
te te te te
Capacity Variable 5 TB 14 TB 20 TB 40 TB 40 TB 500 TB
Concurrency Variable Light Light Medium Mediu High Very High
m
Query Variable Medium Mediu Medium Mediu High Very High
Complexity m m

13. Complete Optimized Agile
• Hardware + Software + • Specifically for small to • Deploy in hours/days, not in
Services medium data warehouse months
• Pre-tuned, pre workload • Easy to use through built-in
configured, pre-installed. • Designed for dedicated tools to load and
Turn on and go! performance, energy manage your data warehouse
• Single point of contact for efficiency, and value by HP • Designed for up to 5TB data
support and Microsoft’s best warehouses
engineers • Fast Track 3.0
• Security and reliability built compliant, license path to
in Fast-Track

14. Small/Departmen Spoke in EDW Hub and
tal Data Spoke Architecture
Warehouse

16. What’s in the Box: optimized
software
Appliance Quick Deployment Wizard
• Name the appliance
• Join a domain
• Specify appliance administrators
DDL and Data Load Wizard
• Create staging and production
databases
• Load data
• Check data fragmentation

18. What is it?

19. Value Proposition

20. Workload Evaluation

24. Software:
• SQL Server 2008 R2
Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 R2
Configuration guidelines:
• Physical table structures
• Indexes
• Compression
• SQL Server settings
• Windows Server settings
• Loading
Hardware:
• Tight specifications for
servers, storage
and networking
• ‘Per core’ building block

31. − Tier-1 Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance
Offering
− High scalability from tens to hundreds of terabytes
− High performance through the MPP system
− Flexibility and Choice
− Choice of deployment options through distributed
architecture
− Most Comprehensive Solution
− Complete data warehouse solution spanning
desktop, enterprise data warehouse, and data marts

33. SQL
SQL
SQL SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL

34. CONTROL NODE
 Client connections always go through the
SQL
control node
 Contains no persistent user data
SQL
SQL  Parallel Data Warehouse advantages:
SQL
oProcesses SQL requests
SQL
oPrepares execution plan
oOrchestrates distributed execution
SQL
 Local SQL Server processes final query
SQL
plan and aggregates results
 Provided by DataDirect
SQL
oOpen database connectivity
SQL
(ODBC), object linking and embedding
database (OLE DB), Java Database
SQL
Connectivity (JDBC), and ActiveX®
Data Objects (ADO.net) client drivers
SQL
oWire protocol (SeQuel link)
oDrivers are available for 32 bits and
64 bits

35. LANDING ZONE
SQL
SQL
 Provides high-capacity storage for data files
SQL
from ETL processes
SQL
 Is available as a sandbox for other
SQL
applications and scripts that run on the
internal networkSQL
 Provides SQL Server Integration Services
SQL
SQL
SQL
Landin Compu
Data
Source g Zone te
Loader
SQL
Files Nodes
SQL
DWLoader or
SQL Server
Integration
Services

36. BACKUP NODE
SQL
SQL
 Provides Integrated Backup Solution
SQL
 Integrates with SQL party backup option
3rd
 Orderable in different sizes
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL

37. SQL
SQL
• Data Rack Servers 10
active + 1 passive SQL
SQL
• HP ProLiant DL360 G7
compute nodes SQL
SQL
• InfiniBand, FC and
Ethernet
switching, 42U rack SQL
SQL
• Expansion Grow from
1–4 data SQL
racks, storage
options, test/dev
system SQL
• Storage 10x HP SQL
StorageWorks MSA
P2000 G3
• Consists of COMPUTE
NODES and STORAGE
NODES

38. COMPUTE NODE
• Data Rack Servers 10
active + 1 passive SQL
• HP ProLiant DL360 G7
compute nodes
• InfiniBand, FC and
Ethernet
switching, 42U rack
 Each MPP node is a highly tuned symmetric
• Expansion Grow from multi-processing (SMP) node with standard
1–4 data interfaces
racks, storage
options, test/dev  Provides dedicated
system
hardware, database, and storage
• Storage 10x HP  Runs SQL Server
StorageWorks MSA
P2000 G3  Spare Node provides failover in case of
node failure
 Drives are configured as RAID 1

39. SQL
SQL
Client Drivers SQL SQL
SQL
SQL
Support/Patching SQL
SQL
ETL Load Interface SQL
SQL
SQL
Corporate Backup
Solution

40. SQL
SQL
???
QUERY SQL SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL

41.  Dashboard
 Query activity
 Load activity
 Backup and restore
 Active locks
 Active sessions
 Alerts
 Appliance state
https://controlnodeipaddress

42.  Appliance
topology
 Services status
 Network
configuration
 Privileges

43. Parallel database Supports user groups
copy technology with very different
enables rapid data service-level
movement and agreements (SLAs):
consistency between • Performance
EDW and data marts • Capacity
• Loading
• Concurrency
Create SQL Server 2008 R2, Fast Track Data Warehouse,
and SQL Server Analysis Services Data Marts
A distributed architecture gives you the flexibility to add or change diverse
workloads
or user groups while maintaining data consistency across the enterprise

45. Contact your HP/Microsoft Sales Account
Manager or Frontline Partner to learn more
New Business Value services for
Next generation application
platform
Performance and scalability
optimization for SQL Server and
Exchange Server
HP P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance
tune for Hyper-V
Microsoft Core Infrastructure
Virtualization
Client and Virtualization Services
Data Management Solutions
around OLTP, DW, BI
Implement Hyper-V, Exchange and SQL Server
Upgrades or Migration of
Integrate Insight Control for MS System Center Messaging and Unified
Fast Track and Data Warehouse solutions Communications solutions
SQL Server upgrade and consolidation Private Cloud for Microsoft
Exchange Server upgrade
and migration

46. www.hp.com/go/microsoft/infra2apps
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