Ms sql database consolidation
- 1. Case Study MS-SQL Database Consolidation For BPO/KPO Domain
- 2. MS-SQL Database Consolidation CASE STUDY 2 © SIMPLE LOGIC IT PVT.LTD.(www.simplelogic.in) COMPANY CLIENT PROFILE: The company offers 24/7 services for contact center solutions, transaction processing, finance & accounting, HRO and IT solutions to Fortune 500 companies in the UK, US, Australia, and India. Backed by The Blackstone Group, a leading Global Private Equity player, It is a 55,000 people organization spread across 70 global delivery centers across North & Central America, UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East; supporting 110+ clients in over 50 languages EMPLOYEE STRENGTH : • More than 5,0000 TECHNOLOGIES USED: • Database: SQL SERVER 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 Enterprise & Standard Edition • OS Platform: Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 Enterprise x64 Edition OVERVIEW: This company is a leading global Business Process Solutions company, committed to excellence. Backed by The Blackstone Group, a world leading private equity player, we focus on enhancing Customer Experience by investing in relationships and powering innovation through Technology and Analytics. We are 55,000 people strong, with over 70 global Delivery Centers in 8 locations across Americas, UK, Europe, Middle East, India and Philippines. We serve 110+ clients in over 25 languages. It has been recognized by NelsonHall as a ‘Leader in Customer Management Services’, we also won NASSCOM ‘Customer Service Excellence Award 2017’. It was also presented the BBC Knowledge Outsourcing Award for ‘Operational Excellence and Quality’. MS-SQL SERVER CONSOLIDATION and Always ON: Consolidation:- “Combining of various units into more efficient and stable larger units is called a CONSOLIDATION .Server consolidation is an approach to the efficient usage of computer server resources in order to reduce the total number of servers or server locations that an organization requires. Always on:- Always on is latest technology introduce in 2012 SQL SERVER .Always on is HA-DR and alternate solution for Database Mirroring. Its very flexible and multiple secondaries so its used for offload balancing, secondary as readonly,backup and reporting purpose
- 3. MS-SQL Database Consolidation CASE STUDY 3 © SIMPLE LOGIC IT PVT.LTD.(www.simplelogic.in) WHY CONSOLIDATION and ALWAYSON: Consolidation: Consolidation reduces the Licensing cost of Windows server as well as SQL Server also it provides the ease of manageability and standardization to the customer Forces Driving to consolidation: • Reduced TCO (Total Cost Of Ownership) • Optimized Administration and Licensing costs Key Enablers: • Software • Hardware • Virtualization Alwayson: In Alwayson We can consolidate many SQL SERVER version into single SQL SERVER means we can manage many consolidated database into Always on node as Availability Group and Availability Group is primary and Secondary. Primary Availability Group ,we can read write and Secondary Availability we can do readily only process and also reporting purpose, backup and DBCC purpose. customer’s merits included: • Optimized database code with no deprecated features; • Efficient high availability production system running on the latest edition of SQLServer; • Increased performance, security and failover features. To make the project even more cost-effective, we reduced travel expenses and performed all upgrade operations remotely, using the RDP connection. Finally, we provided the customer with a full set of documentation related to the upgraded system and the best practices on using and upgrading the high availability database system.
- 4. MS-SQL Database Consolidation CASE STUDY 4 © SIMPLE LOGIC IT PVT.LTD.(www.simplelogic.in) Always on Structure We had given six always on WSFC node for Always on configuration. Three node in Thane subnet and three in CTRLs subnet. We have configured Always on for multisubnet node. Server Detail Subnet in Always on:- 1.CTRL-S 2.THANE Node included in Always on. :- 1. Node 1(10.200.140.30) 2. Node 2(10.200.140.31) 3. Node 3(10.200.140.17) 4. Node 4(10.200.19.30) 5. Node 5(10.200.19.31) 6. Node 6(Optional)( 10.200.19.17) Always on Configuration setup:-
- 5. MS-SQL Database Consolidation CASE STUDY 5 © SIMPLE LOGIC IT PVT.LTD.(www.simplelogic.in) Nodes Detail in Always on Always on Architecture
- 6. MS-SQL Database Consolidation CASE STUDY 6 © SIMPLE LOGIC IT PVT.LTD.(www.simplelogic.in) ENVIRONMENT (BEFORE Always on Configuration): Client having huge server setup for PRODUCTION Server We have migrated and check status of server Server Detail : Total number of Server= 39 Servers Total Number DB for migration on Always on =149 Operating System = Windows server 2003,2008 with Enterprise Edition Servers with SQL Server Enterprise edition = 24 Servers Servers with SQL Server Standard edition = 10 Servers Server with other SQL Server Edition =05 ENVIRONMENT(After Migration and consolidated on Always on Detail): Subnet : -Multisubnet Location :- Thane (10.200.19.xx) Location :- Mahape(10.200140.xx) Operating System = Windows server 2012 Enterprise Edition SQL Server Version = SQL Server 2014 Enterprise edition.
- 7. MS-SQL Database Consolidation CASE STUDY 7 © SIMPLE LOGIC IT PVT.LTD.(www.simplelogic.in) Always on Current Environment INITIAL ANALYSIS PERFORMED: Inventory collection of all the Production Servers. Analyze all the SQL Server. Analyze SQL Server licenses and Editions Currently Installed. Studied Windows Server and SQL Server configurations. Monitor the storage supplied to the servers. Monitor Network requirement of the server. Monitored IOP’s of the Server. Monitor need of memory for server Database Size and its property write down in docs. 1. Detail of Availability Group dashboard
- 8. MS-SQL Database Consolidation CASE STUDY 8 © SIMPLE LOGIC IT PVT.LTD.(www.simplelogic.in) Snapshot of Detail and updated list Benefits Of Alwayson and Consolidation: • Improved performance • Scalability • Optimization • Management • Reducing Costs and Improving efficiency • Standardization and Centralization • Less Number of License • Lower Monitoring Costs • Reduces Number of Windows Installation to maintains • Reduces Number of SQL Server instances to maintain • Easy to maintenance. • Flexibility provide in work
- 9. MS-SQL Database Consolidation CASE STUDY 9 © SIMPLE LOGIC IT PVT.LTD.(www.simplelogic.in) RESULTS: We have configured Always on in Six node with multisubnet and Performance of servers are good. Client can access database 24X7 with no data loss. Performance is good due to secondary use as Reporting purpose, Backup purpose and DBCC checking.