1. Consolidating Your Database Infrastructure
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Consolidating Your Database Infrastructure
Tom Mills
Consultant
Microsoft Corporation
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2. Overview Today’s Challenges What Is Consolidation?
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Overview
Today’s Challenges
What Is Consolidation?
Consolidation Approach
What Can I Consolidate?
Next Steps
Questions?
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3. Today’s Challenges Financial Resources
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Today’s Challenges
Financial Resources
Major economic reset AKA a recession
Organizations are cutting costs in response
Gartner expects spending on hardware, software, services and telecommunications to fall 3.8 percent to $3.2 trillion this year.
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4. Today’s Challenges Managing Complicated Infrastructure
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Today’s Challenges
Managing Complicated Infrastructure
Too many servers, too few DBAs
Management tools not always effective
Unknown servers contribute to license issues
Keeping software current presents challenges
Security risks posed by non-homogenous environment
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What Is Consolidation?
Database Server
Consolidated Server
Consolidation is the process of methodically decreasing the number of database servers to reduce the size and complexity of the data infrastructure.
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6. Consolidated Data Center
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What Is Consolidation?
Data Center
Consolidated Data Center
Consolidation can also involve reducing the number of data centers and server locations.
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What Is Consolidation?
Redundant Application
Consolidated Application
Consolidation can also include reducing the number of duplicate applications.
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What Is Consolidation?
Redundant Data
Managed Data
Consolidation can even include implementing a Master Data Management plan to consolidate enterprise data.
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9. The Benefits of Consolidation
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The Benefits of Consolidation
Reduced hardware costs by removing under-utilized server resources from production.
Avoid ever-increasing storage costs by leveraging compression and other features of SQL Server 2008
Elimination of third-party software that duplicates new features of Windows 2008 and SQL Server 2008
Improved data security and auditing capabilities
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10. The Benefits of Consolidation
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The Benefits of Consolidation
Better manageability for the data infrastructure
Improved overall performance of existing database resources
Reduced equipment environmental requirements such as cooling and AC
Improved business efficiency through a better managed, more agile data infrastructure
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The Bottom Line $
Less $$$!
Consolidation results in lower operating costs and a greater return on infrastructure investment.
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12. Consolidation Approach
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Consolidation Approach
Identification
Existing servers are identified and then classified by either internal or vendor application.
Classification
The process continues to break down and classify each database further using a set of criteria.
Organization
The conclusion of the process yields a set of databases that are organized into those that can be consolidated and those that cannot.
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13. Consolidation Approach
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Consolidation Approach
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Server Consolidation
First phase is a focus on host consolidation. Host consolidation introduces substantially less risk than instance or database consolidation.
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Server Consolidation
The second phase involves “gathering the stragglers”. Other techniques are employed during this phase to seek out servers and databases that escaped detection during the initial discovery process. This phase is an on-going process and will run concurrently with subsequent phases.
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Server Consolidation
The third phase of the project involves further refinement of the consolidation process. This phase addresses the process of reducing the number of database instances and their associated databases
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Server Consolidation
Data Consolidation is the most difficult and complicated of any phase. A well-managed and successful data consolidation effort can result in large cost savings through a reduction in storage space and reduced administrative costs.
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Server Consolidation
Consolidating an application portfolio can provide large cost savings in terms of server resources, network resources, licensing fees and support costs across all environments.
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19. Identify Primary tool is the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)
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Identify
Primary tool is the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)
MAP is part of the Microsoft Solution Accelerators suite
Microsoft Solution Accelerators are free, authoritative resources to help IT Professionals proactively plan, integrate, and operate IT systems.
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What Is MAP?
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations and virtualization without the use of any software agents. This versatile toolkit:
Quickly discovers clients, servers, and applications across your IT environment.
Conducts migration and virtualization assessments for your IT projects.
Auto-generates reports and proposals.
Scales well to small businesses as well as large enterprises.
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What Is MAP?
With MAP you get the following reports and proposals for migration to SQL Server 2008:
Discovery and inventory 
Identifies the various SQL Server instances in your organization.
Detailed reporting
Covers specific SQL Server instances that include component name, version, edition, and more.
Hardware and platform details
Details for computers that are running SQL Server instances including determining whether the machines are virtual or physical.
Identification and evaluation.
Determines which existing SQL Server deployments are suitable for migration to SQL Server 2008 based on hardware and platform requirements.
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MAP Reports
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23. MAP Reports Utilization Before Virtualization 10/25/2017 9:39 AM
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MAP Reports
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MAP Tool Notes
Primary focus of tool is to determine virtualization candidates
Setting maximum memory determines how tool organizes consolidation candidates. Set the memory to the maximum value if you aren’t virtualizing.
Tool uses WMI to gather server information.
Domain or enterprise admin rights or a user id with admin rights to ALL database servers is needed
Tool has two modes, server identification which requires 4-6 hours and performance data capture which requires or more hours.
Performance data capture can result in LARGE storage requirements of gigabytes or more.
Tool uses SQL Express by default but can use an existing SQL Server database.
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26. Other tools SQL scripts to determine database size and location
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Other tools
SQL scripts to determine database size and location
Performance monitor counters to collect statistics on memory, disk, transactions, etc.
Surveys and audits of application owners to ascertain peak periods, required availability and future growth
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Classify
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Classify
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29. Virtualization using Hyper-V
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Virtualization using Hyper-V
MAP tool will provide recommendations
Excellent choice for development domains
Good choice for QA and test domains.
Supported in production domains
Detailed discussion beyond the scope of this presentation.
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30. Next Steps Discuss consolidation with your team
Find an executive champion
Use the MAP tool to conduct a high level assessment of your servers
Involve Microsoft, your partner resources and hardware vendors
Put together a proposal for consolidation
Get executive buy-in for the project
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References
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit for SQL Server 2008
SQL Server Consolidation at Microsoft
Resources for Upgrading to SQL Server 2008
Microsoft Services
MSDN blog: Driving The Database Engine
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