Figure 7. Sqlio Line Rate Test From Cache (Small File) - Dell PowerEdge External Media System 1434 Configuration

Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on
PowerEdge R720xd
SQLIO. This test verifies the maximum bandwidth available in the system to ensure no bottlenecks are
within the data path.
Figure 7.
SQL Server 2012 Enterprise
Single Socket Intel four core
Aggregate Synthetic I/O rate: 2700 MB/s
H710P PERC Controller
Synthetic I/O rate: 2700 MB/s
The second synthetic I/O test with SQLIO was performed with a large file to ensure reads are serviced
from the storage system hard drives instead of from cache. Figure 8 shows the maximum real rate that
the system is able to provide with sequential reads.
SQLIO Line Rate Test from Cache (Small File)
POWER EDGE R720-XD
SQL Server 2012
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Intel E5-2643
4 core
CPU
INTERNAL STORAGE
PERC H700
Controller
RAID 1
Single RAID 1 Disk Group
RAID 1
RAID 1
Synthetic I/O rate: 2669 MB/s
RAID 1
RAID 1
RAID 1
RAID 1
RAID 1
RAID 1
RAID 10
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