Patrick Ortiz Global SQL Solution Architect Dell Inc. BIN209

AGENDA Introduction: Dell Microsoft Practice Overview of Microsoft BI Platform Why the focus on the SQL Server Analysis Services Layer Current BI Challenges Considerations for Scaling Analysis Server Layer Dell on Dell – one perspective of applying scaling considerations

Dell Global MS Practice Structure Server & Tools WHAT WE CURRENTLY DO NOT DO Application Development (.Net, Visual Studio, Silverlight, etc.) Mobile Devices Messaging & Communication Collaboration & Databases Unified Communications Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Hyper-V Windows Terminal Services MS Server Failover Clustering Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 Configuration Manager 2007 Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging Office Communications Server Enterprise Instant Messaging Voice & Video Conferencing PBX Integration Office Communicator SharePoint Server MS Search Server Forefront SQL Server 2008 Office 2007 Managed, Optimized and Secure Dell SaaS Continuity & Archiving, License Management, Services Management Dell SaaS Continuity & Archiving, License Management, Services Management

Market Research 2007 Gartner Survey : CIO Top 10 Technology PrioritiesRank Business Intelligence application1 Enterprise applications (ERP, CRM and others) 2 Legacy application modernization3 Networking, voice and data communications4 Servers and storage technologies (virtualization) 5 Security technologies6 Service-oriented architectures7 Technical infrastructure management8 Document management9 Collaboration technologies10 “8 of the top 10 CIO technology priorities potentially drive SQL Server opportunities”

BI Applications As BI applications become more business critical, the following are key to minimizing business disruption. Meeting Service Level agreements for application uptime Establishing Business Continuity Plan

Microsoft BI Platform Overview Excel Services Reporting Services Performance Point OLAP Presentation SQL Server Other Sources “Cubes” DW SQL Server SSIS OLTP

BI Applications As BI applications become more business critical, the following are key to minimizing business disruption. Meeting Service Level agreements for application uptime Establishing Business Continuity Plan

Current Challenges Data Warehouse Analysis Server: Processes Cube Supplies Data to Presentation Layer Presentation: Reporting Services Performance Point Excel Services Users

How Can We Overcome These Technical Challenges?

Solution Design Considerations for Scaling the SQL Server Analysis Hardware Selection Cube Management SSAS Solution Architecture

Microsoft/Dell BI Infrastructure Reference Configuration

Solution Design Considerations - Cube Management Cube refresh Schedules Full Incremental Partitioning Usage Based Aggregation Wizard Enable Logging

Dell on Dell Dell DataWarehouse DatAllegro Dell DataWarehouse DatAllegro QUERY LAYER PROCESSING LAYER PRESENTATION LAYER Sales Load Balancer

Dell on Dell Dell DataWarehouse DatAllegro Dell DataWarehouse DatAllegro QUERY LAYER PROCESSING LAYER PRESENTATION LAYER Sales Datacenter 1 Load Balancer Sales Datacenter 2

Dell on Dell Dell DataWarehouse DatAllegro Dell DataWarehouse DatAllegro QUERY LAYER PROCESSING LAYER PRESENTATION LAYER Sales Datacenter 1 Load Balancer Sales Datacenter 2 Customer

Dell on Dell Dell DataWarehouse DatAllegro Dell DataWarehouse DatAllegro QUERY LAYER PROCESSING LAYER PRESENTATION LAYER Sales Datacenter 1 Load Balancer Sales Datacenter 2 Customer

Conclusion By addressing the technical challenges via the solution design, one can meet: Application Uptime Service Level Agreements Separation of query layer from processing layer Utilization of SSAS synchronization feature to scale cubes across servers in query layer to meet user demand Usage Based Wizard & Logging Load Balance Business Continuity Placing query layer servers in separate data center Sync cubes across servers in both data centers Load Balance activity across data centers

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