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Migrating to a Dell PowerEdge R515 server from two legacy database servers
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Small to medium businesses (SMBs) with legacy database servers,
such as older HP ProLiant systems, often find themselves running out
of capacity and at a decision point: Do they continue with the status
quo, almost guaranteeing increased hardware failures and lost
revenue and time, or do they migrate to newer and more powerful
servers? With the release of the Dell PowerEdge R515 and the power
of Microsoft’s Hyper-V™ and SQL Server technologies, the choice is
easy for the SMB market: upgrading to the Dell PowerEdge R515 is
simple, cost-effective, and results in better performance with more
room for growth.
This Principled Technologies
®
(PT) Guide explains the process for
consolidating an existing two-server installation onto a single Dell
PowerEdge R515 (see Figure 1) and upgrading a legacy
heterogeneous SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 environment to
a unified Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 platform. We provide
concepts and procedures that will help you successfully consolidate
database instances from multiple older servers onto a single
Microsoft Windows Server
®
2008 R2 system running Hyper-V, with
virtual machines (VMs) running SQL Server 2008 R2.
Figure 1. The new Dell PowerEdge R515 server.
In the sections that follow, we discuss some of the new features of
the servers and software, give an overview of the consolidation and
Our hypothetical SMB replacing
multiple older HP servers with a
single Dell PowerEdge R515
server running Microsoft SQL
Server 2008 R2 benefits in
several ways:
• Significant performance
increase
• Total cost of investment
(TCO) and return on
investment (ROI) within 19
months
• Easy migration process
This report addresses the ease
of the migration process. To
learn more about performance
increase, see our
performance
report. To learn more about the
TCO and ROI, see our
TCO/ROI
report.
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