Cisco Cisco UCS B260 M4 Blade Server White Paper
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Figure 3. Microsoft SQL Server Deployment on VMware and Cisco UCS Server Blades
Multiple virtual machines per
physical server hosting multiple
small databases in each VM
physical server hosting multiple
small databases in each VM
Multiple virtual machines per
physical server hosting single
large database in each VM
physical server hosting single
large database in each VM
Configuration 1: Using a single physical machine to host multiple virtual machines and each virtual machine
running a Microsoft SQL Server instances hosting multiple Small & Medium databases.
Configuration 2: Using a single physical machine to host multiple virtual machines and each virtual machine
running Microsoft® SQL Server® database instance hosting a single Large database.
Each of these scenarios have their own security, compliance requirements, high availability, disaster recovery
requirements, resource management benefits, level of consolidation density, and manageability characteristics.
Both these options have been tested in this study. For Configuration 1 we used a small database of 10 GB size
and for Configuration 2 we used a large database of 100 GB size.
By considering these two consolidation configurations, we divided the testing in three different scenarios: