Is your flash system up to the challenge? Attend this webinar and learn how you can optimize your SQL Server performance. Hear how the pros pinpoint performance bottlenecks and leverage the latest advancements in storage technology to decrease access latency and IO wait times. By the end of the webinar you’ll have the tools and information you need to recommend the best approach for your SQL Server environment.

1. Optimizing Flash Storage
for SQL Databases
Is your flash system up to the challenge?
Make sure your flash system:
● Increases performance
● Reduces costs
● Improves protection
● Integrates with your DBMS
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/FlashSQL

2. Our Speakers
George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst
focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing
and data protection. He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos
on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined
storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has over 25 years of
experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.
Rob Commins has been instrumental in the success of some of the storage industry's
most interesting companies over the past twenty years including HP/3PAR, Pillar Data
Systems, and StorageWay. At Tegile, he leads the company's marketing strategy,
product marketing, press/analyst activities, as well as competitive analysis.

3. Agenda
• Pre-Flash Steps
• Selecting The Right Flash Solution
• Deciding on YOUR Flash Strategy
• Post-Flash Steps
• Tegile’s Answer to MS-SQL Challenges
• Q&A

4. Pre-Flash Steps
Things to do before you Flash
● File System Defragmentation
● Index and Query Optimization
● Application Code Optimization
● But… Do we really need to do this?

5. Flash Implementation Strategies
● Server Side Flash Caching
● Shared Hybrid Flash
● Shared All-Flash
● Hyper-Converged Flash

6. What is Server Side Caching?
● Combines Server Side SSD
with Server Caching Software
● Can be implemented bare metal, in
guest and with hypervisor
● Can leverage a variety of flash
media types

7. Server Side Caching Pros/Cons
● Challenges in
Cluster/Hypervisor
implementations
● Risks with write caching
● Expensive to
deploy on broad scale
● Brings performance
directly to the app
● Less latency, no network
● Targeted implementation
● Server Flash Less
Expensive per GB

8. What is a Hybrid Array?
● Hybrid Array
● An Flash tier leveraged by
caching intelligence on the array

9. Hybrid Array Pros/Cons
● Performance to all
apps
● No software to install
● Should be safer for
write caching
● Requires new storage array
● Shared Flash is more costly
(HA)
● Limited fine grain control/QoS
● Different from
Vendor to Vendor

10. What is an All-Flash Array?
● All-Flash Array
● An array with only flash storage

11. All-Flash Array Pros/Cons
● High Performance to all
apps
● No software to install
● Should be safer for write
caching
● No Tuning Required
● Requires new storage array
● Shared Flash is more costly
(HA)
● Limited ability to “tier off”
● Different from
Vendor to Vendor

12. What is a Hyper Converged Storage?
● Hyper-Converged

13. Hyper Converged Pros/Cons
● Converged Server,
Network and Storage
● May reduce costs
● May be simpler
● May require new servers,
storage and networking
● Or requires a very “DIY”
implementation
● Becomes complicated at scale
● Predictable performance may
be an issue

14. Deciding on Your MS-SQL Flash
Strategy
● Server Side Flash Caching
● Shared Hybrid Flash
● Shared All-Flash
● Hyper-Converged Flash

15. Post-Flash Steps

16. Post-Flash Steps
Things to do before you Flash
● Application Code Optimization
● Server Upgrades
● Networking Improvements

17. © 2017 TEGILE SYSTEMS -
CONFIDENTIAL
ALL-FLASH
HD
HYBRID
Tegile’s Award Winning Portfolio

18. © 2017 TEGILE SYSTEMS -
CONFIDENTIAL
Run Every Workload at the Speed of Memory
Performance
Tier
Capacity
Tier
▪ Get the affordable capacity you need
for your business-critical applications
▪ Get the high IOPS and low latency you
need for your top-tier applications
NVDIMM
Flash
Memory
HDD or
Dense
Flash
100s of MICROSECOND
RESPONSE TIMES
10-20x FASTER
THAN LEGACY
STORAGE

19. © 2017 TEGILE SYSTEMS -
CONFIDENTIAL
ONE Platform, ANY Workload.
60% FLASH30% FLASH
10% FLASH 100% FLASH
60TB – 840TB*
60TB – 720TB* 60TB – 720TB*
WARMDATA
HOTDATA
22TB – 1.8PB*
ONE Operating System | ONE Feature Set | ONE User Experience
*Effective capacity, assuming 5:1 data

20. © 2017 TEGILE SYSTEMS -
CONFIDENTIAL
Application-Optimized Provisioning
▪ Application-optimized templates simplify provisioning
▪ Choose the type of workload and IntelliFlash will
preselect the optimum configuration properties for
LUN/Share
▪ Templates based on best practices
▪ Advanced configuration options also available

21. © 2017 TEGILE SYSTEMS -
CONFIDENTIAL
30% CPU Utilization 60%+ CPU Utilization
Server 1 Server 2 Server 3 Server 4 Server 1 Server 2
Tegile IntelliFlash™ Array
Traditional Disk Array
Reduce SQL Costs with Flash

22. © 2017 TEGILE SYSTEMS -
CONFIDENTIAL
30% CPU Utilization 60%+ CPU Utilization
Server 1 Server 2 Server 3 Server 4 Server 1 Server 2
Tegile IntelliFlash™ Array
Traditional Disk Array
4x Server Costs
4x SQL Server 2014 Licensing Costs = ~$570K
4x SQL Server 2014 SA for 3 years = ~$345K
1x Array Cost
2x Server Costs
2x SQL Server 2014 Licensing Costs = ~$285K
4x SQL Server 2014 SA for 3 years = ~$170K
1x Tegile Array Cost
Reduce SQL Costs with Flash
Over $500K in Savings!
Reduce
Servers and
Amount of
Licenses

23. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
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Tegile
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http://twitter.com/tegile
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http://www.facebook.com/tegilesystems

24. Optimizing Flash Storage
for SQL Databases
Is your flash system up to the challenge?
For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at:
http://bit.ly/FlashSQL