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Consolidated Results of OPM, CPU and Memory Usage with Large Database Consolidation
On the large database (100Gb) consolidation scenario, B250-M2 acts as entry point with its balanced memory and
i/o bandwidth. As the CPU and memory requirement increases, B440-M2 provides the ideal platform to handle
large workload and IOPs. As mentioned before, IOPS shown here are not the max that either B250 or B440 can
handle. I/O limits were never touched in this test and there is enough headroom. Following table summarizes the
choices blades based on the workload.
Workload Characteristics
I/O Characteristics
Suggested Blade
Max Memory
Moderately memory requirement
Average i/o
B250-M2
384G
Highly memory bound
High i/o
B440-M2
512G
Conclusion
This study provides an overview of considerations to develop a strategy to maximize hardware utilization and
reducing costs associated with database sprawl. It describes the strategies and reference architectures as a
starting point to consolidate SQL Server on the Cisco Blade server using a building block approach to design,
configure, and deploy using best practice recommendations to simplify IT.
To simplify the design and deployment of a virtualized infrastructure, Cisco offers Solution Architectures bundles
for blade servers, VMware vSphere. The bundles provides configuration and best practices to achieve full
redundancy
—with no single point of failure, scalability, and ease of management.
The tests performed at Cisco labs showed that significant gains can be achieved by developing a strategy to
maximize hardware utilization, reducing sprawl, power and cooling costs by consolidating and vitalizing SQL
Server on the latest Cisco blade servers, while providing the performance to meet the most de
manding customers’
workloads.