Storage Options - HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Technical White Paper

Technical white paper | HP ProLiant DL980 G7 and P2000 G3 MSA Storage
The focus of this reference architecture document is a high-end configuration, based on the ProLiant DL980 G7. Table 3
outlines the configuration details for this platform.
Table 3. ProLiant DL980 G7 configuration details
Model
CPU
Number Cores
PCI-E Slots
Drives
Storage Controller
Host Bus Adapters
Network Adapters
RAM
Note that the recommended 768GB is the minimum RAM for this configuration. Generally, for SQL Server Data Warehousing
environments, as workload demands grow, increasing RAM provides performance benefits. If the workload consists of a
large number of small-to-medium sized queries hitting the same data (for example, last week's sales), performance and
throughput can be increased by caching results in memory.

Storage options

The Fast Track reference architecture is based on a model of a core-balanced architecture which allows for a configuration
that is initially balanced and provides predictable performance. This core balanced architecture is sized for an optimum
number of storage components to drive a certain number of CPU cores. Each CPU core has a Maximum Consumption Rate
(MCR). The MCR is the maximum throughput of information processing for a given CPU core. Multiplying the per-core MCR
and the number of CPU cores yields the MCR for the entire system. To ensure balanced performance we must ensure that
there are no bottlenecks in the system that would prevent the CPUs from reaching their MCR. The diagram below represents
the building blocks for the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 required to achieve a core-balanced sequential data I/O scan rate of about
11-17GB/sec.
ProLiant DL980 G7 E7-4870 8P
(8) Ten-Core Intel Xeon Processors Model E7-4870 (2.40 GHz, 30MB L3 cache, 130W)
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(10) x8, (6) x4, 11 FH/FL, 5 LP
(3) HP 146GB 6G SAS 15K SFF DP ENT HDD (System + hot spare)
(5) HP 600GB 6G SAS 10K SFF DP ENT HDD (Pagefile + hot spare)
HP Smart Array P410i/1GB FBWC
(14) HP 82E 8Gb Dual Port PCI-E FC HBA
One HP NC375i Quad Port Gigabit Server Adapter
768 GB PC3-10600R expandable to 4TB
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