Technical white paper |  HP ProLiant DL980 G7 and P2000 G3 MSA Storage 
 
 
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Figure 2. Example DL980 G7 core-balanced architecture  
SQL Server 2012 Minimum Server Configuration 
SMP Core-Balanced Architecture  
 
 
More information regarding the Fast Track Data Warehouse reference architecture approach, including the means of 
calculating building blocks for other HP server and storage combinations, is included in the Microsoft SQL Server Technical 
Article, “Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Guide for SQL Server 2012”. 
It is also possible to increase storage capacity without adding more CPU cores by using larger drives; however, increasing 
the capacity beyond the optimized configuration will not increase performance. Rather, only capacity will be increased. It is 
important to note that adding more data, but still querying the same sized ranges per query, will not decrease performance.