Technical white paper
HP 85 TB reference
architectures for Microsoft SQL
Server 2012 Fast Track Data
Warehouse: HP ProLiant DL980
G7 and P2000 G3 MSA Storage
Table of contents
Executive summary ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Fast Track reference architecture ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Important points and caveats ............................................................................................................................................................... 2
Solution criteria ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
Storage options ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Capacity summary .................................................................................................................................................................................. 7
Database configuration ......................................................................................................................................................................... 8
SQL Server 2012 performance metrics ............................................................................................................................................... 8
Measured performance.......................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Queue Depth settings ............................................................................................................................................................................ 9
LUN layout ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Volume Read Ahead settings .............................................................................................................................................................. 11
Multi Path I/O (MPIO) ................................................................................................................................................................................. 11
SQL Server settings ................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
MAXDOP parameter.............................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Resource Governor ............................................................................................................................................................................... 13
High Availability ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Additional storage requirements ........................................................................................................................................................ 15
Manual storage mapping ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16
Disaster recovery ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
Bills of materials ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 20
High Availability ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
Disaster recovery .................................................................................................................................................................................. 22
Implementing a proof-of-concept .......................................................................................................................................................... 23
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