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System x solution for MS Data Warehouse Fast Track for SQL 2014 on X6 The rapid growth of technology has meant the amount of data available and the ability to collect that data has increased to a level unthinkable as short as five years ago. As the quantity and quality of data has increased, however, extracting meaningful insight in a timely manner has only become more complex. This means opportunities are being missed and time and effort are being wasted. In order to compete, business in the 21st century is demanding the tools to derive true value from their data.

of SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition. Each offering, from Basic (4 TB DW) to Standard (10-40 TB DW) to Advanced (>40 TB DW), consists of:

Microsoft Data Warehouse Fast Track (DWFT) for SQL Server 2014 for System x3850 X6 improves time-to-value for your data warehouse needs with new, scalable reference architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition. Reduce costs, save time and reduce risk with reliable, pretested hardware and best practices for data warehousing.

Enterprise data warehouse with faster time-to-value

The configuration listed in this document has a Fast Track RowStore rating of IO 10,338 MB/s and ColumnStore throughput of 3156/Queries/Hr/TB. The detailed specifications of the configuration are listed in the table on page 3.

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DWFT for SQL Server 2014 for System x offerings are methodically tested and tuned to save you months of configuration, setup, testing and tuning. You can now: ●● ●

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The reference configurations for DWFT for SQL Server bring together the right mix of technology and software, integrating the latest powerful System x® rack and enterprise servers, robust System Storage®, and the data warehouse capabilities

Pretested server and in-server flash storage configuration, specifically balanced and optimized for warehousing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition for a scalable enterprise data warehouse platform

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Buy all the hardware you need from just one vendor—servers, storage and networking. Build, tune and deploy with confidence using established data warehouse best practices. Select from different levels of performance, scalability and price to suit your business needs. Choose from four to 120 Intel Xeon processor cores. Run targeted query workloads are patterned for large sequential data sets rather than small random data transactions. Eliminate bottlenecks with optimized rapid data reads and query aggregations.

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System x solution for MS Data Warehouse Fast Track for SQL 2014 on X6

Better data compression and query time

Powered by System x3850 X6 and High IOPS MLC adapters

The clustered column store index (CCI) in SQL Server 2014 has been designed for use with data warehouses to deliver better data compression and subsecond query response time enabling interactive analytics on the data. There is no need to pre-aggregate the data for the anticipated queries or reports.

The X6 server features Intel Xeon processors. With more cores and more memory, the X6 family is designed to be fast from the ground up. Every subsystem is tuned to maximize performance:

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CCI is optimized for query performance. It gives 10x better query response time and 7x higher compression ratio. CCI is updateable allowing two types of concurrent insert of new data while the query workload is running. This reduces the data latency from the time data is born to when it is available for querying. Using CCI, SQL Server 2014 has delivered industry leading TPC-H benchmark numbers for data warehouse workloads.1

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Greatly increased processing power, thanks to the latest Intel Xeon E7-4800 v2 processors 3X the memory capacity of previous generation processors, with 96 DIMM sockets in the x3850 X6 and 192 DIMM sockets in the x3950 X6—and with support for 64 GB LRDIMMs, get up to 6 TB of memory in the x3850 X6 or 12 TB in the x3950 X6) New storage technologies, such as eXFlash™ memorychannel storage, which closely align the performance of storage with the power of the processors Intelligent storage caching software, thanks to FlashCache Storage Accelerator™

DWFT for SQL Server 2014 with System x3850 X6 features 2.4 TB High IOPS MLC mono Adapter flash storage designed to improve productivity through data consolidation, availability, performance and scalability. These solid-state devices simplify DWFT storage configuration and maintenance versus the use of a SAN, which has more parts to maintain and manage. The reference configuration is a 2-socket system rated for 25 TB using the DWFT V4 methodology Figure 1. DWFT advanced configuration

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System x solution for MS Data Warehouse Fast Track for SQL 2014 on X6

DWFT Certification #2014-001

System x3850 X6 DWFT Reference Architecture

DWFT Rev. 5.4 System Provider

Report Date: 8/11/2014

System Name

Processor Type

Memory

x3850 X6

Intel Xeon E7-4890 v2 2.8 GHz (4/60/120)

1,536 GB

Operating System

SQL Server Edition

Windows Server 2012 R2

SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition

Storage Provider

Storage Information 8x 2.4 TB High IOPS PCIe Flash Adapters for data and tempdb 2x 200 GB SSD for OS (RAID-1) 4x 760 GB SSD for log (RAID-10)

Primary Metrics§ Rated User Data Capacity* (TB)

Row Store Relative Throughput†

Column Store Relative Throughput‡

Maximum User Data Capacity* (TB)

60

351

486

68

Row Store Relative Throughput†

Measured Throughput (Queries/Hr/TB)

Measured Scan Rate Physical (MB/Sec)

Measured Scan Rate Logical (MB/Sec)

Measured I/O Throughput (MB/Sec)

Measured CPU (Avg.) (%)

351

371

9,275

11,401

10,338

89

Column Store Relative Throughput†

Measured Throughput (Queries/Hr/TB)

Measured Scan Rate Physical (MB/Sec)

Measured Scan Rate Logical (MB/Sec)

Measured I/O Throughput (MB/Sec)

Measured CPU (Avg.) (%)

486

3,156

4,443

N/A

N/A

95

* Assumes a data compression ratio of 5:1 †

Percent ratio of the throughput to the row store throughput of the reference configuration.

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Percent ratio of the throughput to the column store throughput of the reference configuration.

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Reported metrics are based on the qualification configuration which specifies database size and SQL Server memory.

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For more information To learn more about DWFT for SQL Server 2014 in a System x environment, contact your Lenovo representative or visit ibm.com/systems/x/solutions/database/ index.html#tab_microsoft_solutions 1

TPC-H - Top Ten Performance Results Version 2 Results. As of 11-Aug-2014 6:15 PM. http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results.asp

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