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Database performance and resiliency in the Intel processor-powered
Dell PowerEdge R630 running Microsoft SQL Server 2014
Figure 1: SQL Server 2014
performance for the HDD
server configuration with two
different think times.
Note that the bars in Figure 1 are more uniform in size with the longer think
time and less uniform with the shorter think time. Figure 2 shows the specific number of
OPM each client achieved. With the more intense workload due to shorter think time,
variability increased. In other words, because of higher variability, application service for
the users degraded.
Figure 2: Performance and variability for the 100-ms and 20-ms scenarios with HDDs.
SSD configuration
As Figure 3 shows, replacing the Dell PowerEdge R630 HDDs with SSDs boosted
performance dramatically. Compared to the 20-ms think time HDD scenario with four
databases, the SSD configuration with four databases delivered 7.7 times as many OPM.
We ran multiple SQL Server instance and database count combinations to see which
combinations would deliver the best performance. Fewer SQL Server instances are more
common in practice, so first we ran eight databases with two SQL Server instances. The
eight-database SSD configuration using two SQL Server instances delivered 10.1 times as
many and the 24-database configuration with four SQL Server instances delivered 10.5
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