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Microsoft Virtualization: Best Choice for SQL Server 2012

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization and quickly build solutions to extend data across on-premises and public cloud, backed by mission critical confidence.
 
Microsoft Virtualization and Private Cloud technologies, which include Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Hyper-V and System Center, deliver new options to you for flexibly and efficiently deploying SQL Server 2012. Customers can experience these benefits without sacrificing high levels of performance and scalability.

High Performance and Scalability

ESG Labs conducted 3rd party testing of Hyper-V running Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The performance, scalability, and low overhead of Hyper-V can be used to reduce costs and improve the manageability, flexibility, and availability of consolidated SQL applications.
  • SQL Server showed performance of a single VM within 88% of a physical server and scaling to 2,090 OLTP transactions per second.
  • Performance scaled with low response times as SQL Server application workloads were consolidated into multiple VMs on a single physical server.

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Lower TCO

The built-in virtualization architecture of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Hyper-V means there is no need for an additional hypervisor purchase.

Virtualization Guidance

Microsoft provides updated guidance, best practices, and example configurations to provide you with the knowledge on how to best virtualize SQL Server on Hyper-V.

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Complete End-to-End Management of SQL Server

System Center provides you with an end-to-end management solution making it possible to manage the deployment of SQL Server in a mixed physical and virtual environment.

Report

Read ESG’s SQL Server 2012 and Hyper-V Performance Analysis.

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