Upgrade to the Best Platform for Microsoft SQL Server Consolidation
Accelerate application lifecycles and improve application quality of service by consolidating your SQL Servers on the private cloud VMware vSphere. With vSphere, you can consolidate your SQL infrastructure by 4X to 20X and cut hardware and software costs by more than 50% while avoiding the painful compromises associated with traditional database consolidation. Run SQL on vSphere with the confidence that even large databases will perform well in virtual machines.
- Deliver databases as dynamic, cost-efficient and reliable IT services on your private cloud
- Accelerate database delivery with on-demand provisioning, automated release cycles and streamlined testing and troubleshooting
- Guarantee database Quality of Service with dynamic scalability, built-in availability and simple disaster recovery
Jim Haas, Virtualization and SQL Server Lead at Ntirety, discusses CPU efficiencies that can be gained with virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere (4:06 mins).
Improve Business Agility
Rapidly Provision SQL Servers with Virtual Machine Templates
On physical hardware, deploying a new SQL Server can take days or weeks to procure the hardware, install and configure the infrastructure, and install the associated applications and updates. Eliminating repetitive OS installation and patching tasks with virtual machine templates can speed deployment times. You can deploy new virtual machines with a core configuration in a matter of minutes, allowing rapid provisioning of applications into production.
Scale Dynamically with CPU and Memory Hot-Add
Databases are particularly difficult to size. Administrators are often forced to forecast capacity requirements for 3-5 years in the future and then translate that estimate into system specifications (CPU, memory, storage). Any sizing errors require the application to be re- provisioned, causing downtime and major disruption to the application. With the vSphere Hot-add feature, applications can be provisioned in a “future proof” manner. As applications grow over time and require more compute, memory, network, or storage resources, scale up virtual machines dynamically and on the fly, without disrupting the application or requiring complex re-provisioning.
Enhance Testing and Troubleshooting with Cloned Production Virtual Machines
Shorten time to resolution of critical issues and reduce their overall impact on the production environment with VMware-enabled testing and troubleshooting. Use live snapshots of virtual machines to instantly roll back to a previous known good configuration. Make an exact, independent copy of any virtual machine in your environment with cloning. The copy can then be installed in a test environment for offline testing and troubleshooting. Share virtual machines with third-parties such as consultants, other partners and vendors and eliminate the need to create a duplicate environment to reproduce problems. In complex application environments supported by SQL Server, this capability is especially valuable.
Improve Your Business Continuity
Protect all Applications with Simple High Availability
Simplify application availability by eliminating the need to use complex and expensive application-specific clustering solutions. VMware vMotion and DRS can reduce planned downtime and balance workloads dynamically while VMware HA can help recover SQL Servers in the case of host failure. At the application level, all Microsoft features and techniques are supported on vSphere, including database mirroring, failover clustering and log shipping, so you can use the best features from both VMware and Microsoft.
Provide Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery
Ensure fast, simple, and cost-effective recovery by automating the recovery process and eliminating the complexity of managing and testing customized recovery plans with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Reduce costs by eliminating the need for dedicated hardware at the remote site.
