Deploying SQL Server on EqualLogic
Date
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9/1/2008
This technical report summarizes best practices to help provide a scalable design for enterprise-level database solutions running on Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 and Dell EqualLogic™ PS iSCSI Storage. The Dell EqualLogic PS5000-series storage arrays offer good scalability for a database solution and provide a unique Peer Storage Architecture that enables multiple members to work together. When Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Dell EqualLogic PS iSCSI Storage are combined and the best practices listed in this paper are applied, the resulting Dell Solution for SQL Server offers good performance and excellent scalability across a variety of common database workloads. Careful considerations of design criteria, backed by practical laboratory evaluations, help ensure that this reference architecture effectively meets the needs of a variety of enterprise-scale database deployments.
