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Solution Overview
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The Right Platform for Database and
Application Deployments
Cisco HyperFlex Systems and Microsoft SQL Server
Our solution offers the capacity
and performance you need to
Simplify
• Use preintegrated clusters that
reduce IT sprawl and deliver
are fast to deploy, simple to insight faster and at less cost.
manage, and easy to scale
If your organization is like most, Microsoft SQL Server
databases are used throughout your operation. Maybe you
rely on these databases for online transaction processing
(OLTP), data warehousing, or batch processing. Perhaps
you use business intelligence, online analytical processing
Respond (OLAP), or report generation tools. Most likely, you use a mix
• Deliver results faster with a of these systems. Whatever the workloads, your databases
solution that provides fast access need to perform if they are going to be able to give your
to growing volumes of data business applications and users fast access to information.
Cisco HyperFlex Systems and
Microsoft SQL Server
As computing and storage resources are added to
Optimize accommodate and process growing volumes of data, your
• Take advantage of always-on IT organization is left with a sprawling complex of databases
inline compression, and infrastructure. That’s when performance starts to decline
deduplication, and monitoring and costs start to rise. Cisco HyperFlex™ systems running
Microsoft SQL Server deliver the scalability and performance
you need at a price you can afford. Our solution is fast to
deploy, simple to manage, and easy to scale and secure,
making it a trusted platform that won’t get in the way of
running your business.
Perform
• Eliminate bottlenecks with a
system that securely distributes
and optimizes data across
scalable servers and storage tiers
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“HyperFlex’s Innovative foundation Proven performance
approach These innovative systems combine
software-defined computing in the
Our all-flash configurations allow
you to run your database and
ensures high form of Cisco Unified Computing
System™ (Cisco UCS®) servers
applications on one platform and
get predictable performance every
performance and software-defined storage
with the powerful Cisco HyperFlex
time. All of the storage devices are
combined into a single distributed,
of Microsoft HX Data Platform software. The
result is a cluster that powers up
multitier, object-based data store
that allows all cluster resources to
SQL and Oracle and configures itself in an hour or
less and is ready to accept your
participate in I/O responsiveness. A
purpose-built, high-performance,
databases application, database, and other
workloads.
scale-out file system dynamically
distributes data across the data
and critical Innovation does not end at the
store. As you scale the cluster,
every new and existing component
server. Our hyperconverged
applications with solutions place added emphasis
contributes processing power
and storage capacity. When every
on the network, as storage I/O
faster delivery of becomes east-west traffic. When
cluster resource can participate in
I/O responsiveness, you experience
you investigate hyperconverged
the environment, offerings, choose one whose
faster results.
roadmap includes innovation across
lower costs, and computing, storage, and network
Performance at every layer
components, improving the entire When Microsoft SQL Server
more effective system: Cisco HyperFlex. virtual machines can access all
of the resources in the cluster,
management.” performance skyrockets. Why
Fast deployment does this matter? The databases
and applications within your virtual
Time is money. Cisco HyperFlex
machines need massive amounts
Edivaldo Rocha systems are delivered as a
of east-west traffic bandwidth and
CEO, CorpFlex preintegrated cluster that is
low latency to handle bursts of
up and running within an hour.
application and user activity. With
Integrated management detects
our solution, you get a solution
new components, allowing this
Read the case study. designed to eliminate bottlenecks.
self-aware and self-integrating
system to adapt quickly to changes • Fast response: The data platform
in hardware configuration. This is is built on a log‑structured file
made possible through Cisco UCS. system that uses a caching layer
Within the system, every aspect to accelerate read requests and
of a node’s identity, configuration, write responses. Incoming data
and connectivity can be set through is striped across the number of
software. This capability significantly nodes you define to meet your
increases efficiency and security, data availability requirements.
Innovative foundation and reduces deployment time. When data is added or updated,
From unboxing to being ready to the system simply appends a new
The cornerstone of the solution is
run a workload, nothing deploys block and updates the metadata,
the Cisco HyperFlex product family. more quickly than Cisco UCS. requiring little use of the server’s
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processors. Data being moved connectivity that carries clusters. Months of baselining
from cache to disk is deduplicated all production IP traffic, and iterative testing using various
and compressed. This process hyperconvergence-layer read/write profiles and block sizes
occurs after the write operation traffic, and management traffic showed that Cisco HyperFlex
is acknowledged, so there is over a single set of cables. systems handle more I/O—and
no performance penalty for • Consistent network handle it faster—than other tested
these operations. In addition, performance: All traffic platforms (Figure 1).
we store the most frequently reaches any other node in
used data in the caching layer the cluster with only a single
to accelerate read operations. network hop that accelerates Storage efficiency
• Access to capacity and east-west traffic. There is no The HyperFlex Data Platform
bandwidth: The distributed switching that adds latency.
optimizes storage tiers for an
architecture allows every virtual Our latency is deterministic.
excellent balance between price
machine to use the storage
• Security: Every connection and performance, delivering an
storage input/output operations
in the cluster is treated as its environment that exceeds most
per second (IOPS) and capacity
own microsegment, with the
of the entire cluster, regardless database service-level agreements
same level of security as if it
of physical location. (SLAs). Data is continuously
were supported with a separate
• Fast storage and networking: optimized with real-time, always-on
physical link, making the
All-flash configurations deduplication, compression,
integrated network more secure.
and high throughput at the and optional encryption, helping
networking layer deliver fast Stunningly fast reduce your storage costs without
access to large databases and The Enterprise Strategy Group affecting performance. Dynamic
consistent performance. tested Cisco HyperFlex hybrid and data placement in server memory,
• Fast fabric interconnects: all-flash systems using HCIBench, caching, and capacity tiers increases
Our interconnects provide an industry-standard tool that tests application performance and
high-bandwidth, low-latency the performance of hyperconverged reduces performance bottlenecks.
120,000 60
Hybrid cluster performance
40 KB I/O size, 70 percent read operations, 100 percent random
100,000 50
I/O operations per second (IOPS)
80,000 40
Latency (milliseconds)
60,000 30
40,000 20
20,000 10
0 0
Source: Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Consistent High Performance
IOPS Read latency Average latency Write latency
for Virtual Machines, The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc., 2017
Figure 1 Cisco HyperFlex systems are stunningly fast
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Easy scalability hyperconverged cluster into your
existing infrastructure, and achieve
Continuous workload
Independent scaling allows you to consistency at scale. performance
match the resource needs of your
Microsoft SQL Server environments. When software makes the
You can start small and scale to High data availability right workload decisions
support hundreds or thousands of Your enterprise applications and in real time, your teams
users and petabytes of data. As you databases must be available all
add nodes to the cluster to expand benefit. Cisco Workload
the time. The system distributes
capacity, data is automatically data across nodes based on Optimization Manager
rebalanced across shared policies that you set to meet your is a real-time decision
resources. Using thin provisioning, data availability requirements. You engine. It continuously
you can size your data store larger can even replicate data to local
than the cluster and expand the analyzes workload
or remote clusters for backup
solution as your databases grow. or disaster-recovery purposes.
consumption, costs, and
In the unlikely event of a failure, compliance constraints
Integrated network fabric systems configured with five and automatically allocates
In many platforms, networking is nodes or more can keep running resources in real time
an afterthought. In contrast, Cisco even if all drives fail on two nodes
simultaneously. And the cluster
so that your databases
UCS fabric interconnects give
you a single point of connectivity automatically recovers. In the event and workloads get the
that lets you use Cisco HyperFlex of a drive or node failure, lost data is resources they need when
nodes and Cisco UCS servers regenerated using the redundancy they need them. You can:
together—a feature that no other mechanisms built into the system.
hyperconverged vendor offers. Plus your administrators can perform • Validate that workload
After deployment, you can scale the system maintenance tasks without requirements are met
cluster to its maximum size without disruption. That’s a database
needing to redesign the network. deployment you can count on. • Use an optimization
analysis to better place
As your environment grows and
begins to span your enterprise, Unified management workloads in the cluster
you can use Cisco® Application
Centric Infrastructure (Cisco
helps reduce costs • Understand the
ACI™) to implement a software- IT management shouldn’t be amount of hardware
defined network. Cisco ACI an afterthought. All Cisco UCS your databases and
provides automated, policy-based platforms, including Cisco HyperFlex workloads actually need
network deployment that secures systems, have embedded model-
your applications within isolated based management. Automation is • Increase workload density
containers. The network can attach controlled through the Cisco UCS
directly to virtual machines and management API by higher-level • Improve application
physical servers with increased tools that allow you to configure a response times
security, real-time monitoring cluster in minutes, with no risk of
and telemetry, and automated configuration creep or noncompliant
performance optimization. You settings. You can choose from a
can interconnect your entire data set of unified management tools
center network, integrating your (Figure 2).
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• Cisco HyperFlex Connect: engine helps you proactively • Hypervisor management
This intuitive, HTML 5-based respond to impending issues such integration: Cisco HyperFlex
management tool is device as the need to scale capacity. systems management integrates
independent, giving you access Install edge deployments simply with both Microsoft Windows
to all cluster features through by claiming your nodes in the 2016 Hyper-V and VMware
any device, anywhere. All cluster interface and the platform will vCenter. This level of management
data platform features can be configure a cluster remotely in integration enables you to manage
managed through this interface. minutes. Drill down into data the lifecycle of virtual machines—
• Cisco Intersight™ management platform operations and you including storage management—
as a service: This cloud-based have exactly the same control without leaving the interface
interface gives you instant access as Cisco HyperFlex Connect familiar to your administrators.
to all of your clusters, regardless of provides—except that you do These management tools include
where they are deployed. High- not have to host management Microsoft System Center Virtual
level resource inventory and status software and you always have Machine Manager (SCVMM),
are provided by Cisco Intersight the most up-to-date versions. Microsoft Hyper-V Manager, and
dashboards. A recommendation a VMware vCenter plug-in.
Choice of management point
for hardware and software
Microsoft System
Center Virtual Machine
Manager and Hyper-V VMware vSphere Cisco Intersight Cisco HyperFlex Cisco Container
Manager plugin management as a service Connect Platform
Cisco UCS Cisco HyperFlex
management API management
Compute-only nodes High-performance, high-capacity cluster
with Cisco UCS M4 and Cisco HyperFlex HX240c M5 All Flash Nodes
M5 blade and rack servers
Cisco UCS 6200 or 6300 High-performance cluster
Series Fabric Interconnects Cisco HyperFlex HX220c M5 All Flash Nodes
High-capacity cluster
Cisco HyperFlex HX240c M5 Nodes
Small-footprint cluster
Cisco HyperFlex HX220c M5 Nodes
Use existing Cisco or third-
party Gigabit Ethernet switches
Cisco HyperFlex Edge
Deploy anywhere with 3 Cisco HyperFlex HX220c M5 nodes
Figure 2 The Cisco HyperFlex product family is supported by a choice of unified management tools
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Next steps Get the most out of approach for engaging third-
party public cloud services.
Read the Cisco Validated Design your databases and
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash
Systems for Deploying Microsoft applications Managed services
SQL Server Database. Using applications and Microsoft
There are many ways that our
SQL Server databases that run in
solution can help your business.
Read the Enterprise Strategy a cloud built on Cisco HyperFlex
Group report Cisco HyperFlex: systems can help your IT staff
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Infrastructure refresh and accelerate service delivery and
with Consistent High Performance database migrations lower costs. You can also tap
for Virtual Machines. If your applications and databases into the high availability delivered
run on infrastructure that is due by dedicated staff at a managed
for a refresh, explore Cisco services provider.
For more HyperFlex systems. The solutions
information you thought required traditional What can you expect?
converged architecture often
• Cisco HyperFlex systems Customers tell us that the move to
can run on higher-performing
Cisco HyperFlex systems running
• Microsoft solutions hyperconverged systems that are
Microsoft SQL Server delivers many
easy to manage and less costly to
benefits, including:
operate. Indeed, migrating your
existing databases to Microsoft SQL • Increased database availability
Server running on Cisco HyperFlex • Accelerated response times
systems can give a boost to your
existing mission-critical applications • Lower latency for critical database
that use those databases. Your and application systems
applications and users will benefit • Reduced storage footprint
from the impressive capacity and • Reduced total cost of ownership
performance improvements across
CPU, memory, disk, and system I/O.
Get started
Private and hybrid clouds We make it easy to get started with
Integration with Cisco ACI and hyperconverged infrastructure.
Cisco Enterprise Cloud Suite make Using our Cisco HyperFlex sizing
it easy to create a hybrid cloud tools, you can determine which
based on Cisco HyperFlex systems. configuration is the right starting
Your customers and clients can use point for your workload. You can also
the software’s integrated service take the risk and guesswork out of
catalog to order application-local deployment with our Cisco Validated
infrastructure customized the way Design guide for deploying Microsoft
they need it within the constraints SQL Server Database on Cisco
that you determine. And when HyperFlex all-flash systems. The
you need to augment capacity to time is right for you to deploy high-
handle periodic workload peaks, performance databases that support
you can use a policy-based your applications at any scale.
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