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Technical white paper | HP ProLiant DL980 G7 and P2000 G3 MSA Storage
Figure 2. Example DL980 G7 core-balanced architecture
SQL Server 2012 Minimum Server Configuration
SMP Core-Balanced Architecture
More information regarding the Fast Track Data Warehouse reference architecture approach, including the means of
calculating building blocks for other HP server and storage combinations, is included in the Microsoft SQL Server Technical
Article, "Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Guide for SQL Server 2012".
It is also possible to increase storage capacity without adding more CPU cores by using larger drives; however, increasing
the capacity beyond the optimized configuration will not increase performance. Rather, only capacity will be increased. It is
important to note that adding more data, but still querying the same sized ranges per query, will not decrease performance.
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