Executive Summary - Dell PowerEdge R810 Manual

Servers: Database consolidation on Dell PowerEdge R810 servers

Executive summary

Advances in processor, server, and database technologies enable
enterprises to reduce costs by consolidating multiple older
databases onto a single newer, faster server. The new Dell
PowerEdge R810 featuring the latest Intel Xeon Processor 7500
series can let organizations realize significant consolidation
savings.
This Principled Technologies (PT) Guide is the result of performance
tests and consolidation procedures we performed. We provide
concepts and procedures that will help you successfully consolidate
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your Microsoft SQL Server 2000 instances from multiple older
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servers onto a single Windows Server 2008 R2 system running
SQL Server 2008 R2. We compared the performance and power
consumption of both the new and old solutions, and then we
analyzed these and other factors to gauge the level of savings you
could realize.
As the results from our hands-on tests show, the Dell PowerEdge
R810 server can run as many as 24 older database workloads,
each of which will perform as well as if it were on a dedicated older
server. Such consolidation saves space, reduces system
management costs, lowers licensing costs and decreases power
consumption by over 85 percent. The result is an estimated
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