Dell PowerEdge R810 - Table of Contents

Table of contents
Executive summary ........................................................ 3
New Dell technology makes major savings easy ................. 4
Features of the new Dell PowerEdge R810 ........................ 4
Features of the new Intel Xeon Processor 7500 series ........ 4
Features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 ........................ 5
The power of consolidation ............................................. 5
Running the numbers ...................................................... 7
Under 12 month payback ............................................... 7
224 percent ROI in 3 years ............................................. 9
The Dell PowerEdge R810 performance story ..................... 9
24 databases, 4 instances, 1 server ................................. 9
We show you how: Preparing the move ........................... 14
Evaluating your databases ............................................ 14
Configuring your storage .............................................. 15
Installing SQL Server 2008 ........................................... 16
Installing the database instances .................................. 18
We show you how: Making the move .............................. 19
Upgrade Advisor makes it easy ..................................... 19
Side-by-side migration ................................................. 21
We show you how: After the move ................................. 23
Logins and dependencies.............................................. 23
Summing it all up ......................................................... 25
Appendix A. Return on investment .................................. 26
Test case ................................................................... 26
Consolidation factor ..................................................... 26
Power savings ............................................................. 27
3-year cost savings ..................................................... 27
Acquisition costs ......................................................... 30
Operating cost savings ................................................. 30
Payback period ........................................................... 31
Assumptions ............................................................... 32
Appendix B. Example database survey ............................ 34
Appendix C. Preparing the storage .................................. 36
Setting up the storage ................................................. 36
Configuring the Dell PowerEdge R810 storage ................. 36
Appendix D. Installing SQL Server 2008 .......................... 38
Appendix E. Installing Upgrade Advisor ........................... 40
Appendix F. Migrating databases .................................... 42
Appendix G. Transferring Windows logins ........................ 45
Appendix H. Transferring SQL Server logins ..................... 46
About Principled Technologies ........................................ 48