Intel Xeon X7500 series processors with up to eight cores and Hyper-Threading. Up to sockets and 128 DIMMs with QPI scaling for larger databases, enterprise, and mission-critical workloads. Up to 64 DIMM slots per chassis delivering up to 1,024 GB of high speed PC3-10600 double data rate (DDR3) memory. An additional 32 DIMMs per chassis with MAX5 memory drawer. Memory reliability and availability with Memory ProteXion with Chipkill, memory mirroring, memory sparing, Intel SMI Lane Failover, SMI packet retry, and SMI Clock failover. Low-power cost-effective memory with Advanced Buffer eXecution chip. High performing databases and fast time to value for database workloads. Advanced networking capabilities with Emulex 10Gb Ethernet Adapter, including support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as a future feature entitlement upgrade. Integrated Management Module (IMM) for enhanced systems management capabilities. Serial Attach SCSI (SAS) plus RAID to maximize throughput and ease installation of a RAID card. IBM System x3850 X5 at-a-glance guide: Appendix 2 Storage Configuration of the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) – AMS2500 Storage System The following section describes the high level storage configuration used for this testing in more detail. As noted earlier in the paper, a dedicated Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) AMS2500 storage system was used to host all virtual machines and SQL Server data. This storage system was configured with three disk pools (referred to in this appendix as Data Pools): one for Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs) that contained the virtual machine images, one for VHDs that contained SQL Server data files, and one for VHDs that contained SQL Server log files. Clustered Shared Volumes (CSVs) were used to make the virtual machines highly available, enabling live and migration scenarios. A total of twelve clustered shared volumes were configured, consisting of: Four volumes (LUNs) to the VHDs that contained the virtual machine images. Four volumes to store the VHDs that contained the SQL Server data files for both tempdb and the user databases. Four volumes to store the VHDs that contained the SQL Server log files. Other details about the configuration are as follows:
Intel Xeon X7500 series processors with up to eight cores and Hyper-Threading. Up to sockets and 128 DIMMs with QPI scaling for larger databases, enterprise, and mission-critical workloads. Up to 64 DIMM slots per chassis delivering up to 1,024 GB of high speed PC3-10600 double data rate (DDR3) memory. An additional 32 DIMMs per chassis with MAX5 memory drawer. Memory reliability and availability with Memory ProteXion with Chipkill, memory mirroring, memory sparing, Intel SMI Lane Failover, SMI packet retry, and SMI Clock failover. Low-power cost-effective memory with Advanced Buffer eXecution chip. High performing databases and fast time to value for database workloads. Advanced networking capabilities with Emulex 10Gb Ethernet Adapter, including support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as a future feature entitlement upgrade. Integrated Management Module (IMM) for enhanced systems management capabilities. Serial Attach SCSI (SAS) plus RAID to maximize throughput and ease installation of a RAID card. IBM System x3850 X5 at-a-glance guide: Appendix 2 – Storage Configuration of the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) AMS2500 Storage System The following section describes the high level storage configuration used for this testing in more detail. As noted earlier in the paper, a dedicated Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) AMS2500 storage system was used to host all virtual machines and SQL Server data. This storage system was configured with three disk pools (referred to in this appendix as Data Pools): one for Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs) that contained the virtual machine images, one for VHDs that contained SQL Server data files, and one for VHDs that contained SQL Server log files. Clustered Shared Volumes (CSVs) were used to make the virtual machines highly available, enabling live and migration scenarios. A total of twelve clustered shared volumes were configured, consisting of: Four volumes (LUNs) to the VHDs that contained the virtual machine images. Four volumes to store the VHDs that contained the SQL Server data files for both tempdb and the user databases. Four volumes to store the VHDs that contained the SQL Server log files. Other details about the configuration are as follows:
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