How to Mitigate SQL Server Costs Amidst Pandemic-Ravaged Budgets Subhead goes here Connor.Cox@dh2i.com
DH2i Company • ISV focused on HA/DR and software defined perimeter networking security • Founded 2010 • Enterprise customers around the world DH2i HQ: Fort Collins, CO • Key offerings: DxEnterprise and DxOdyssey DH2i Engineering: Portland, OR 2 DH2i.com | info@dh2i.com | 800.380.5405
SQL Server Pain Points • Unmanageable growth of SQL Server environments » Organic growth » Acquisition » Virtualization • Heterogeneous infrastructure • HA/DR requirements • Tightening budgets: “do more with less” 3 DH2i.com | info@dh2i.com | 800.380.5405
The Costs of SQL Server Growth • Personal costs: your nights, weekends, & sanity • Overall costs to the company » Core licenses » Core minimums » Many-core servers » Push to Enterprise Edition » Other MS licensing traps • Increasing admin work 4 DH2i.com | info@dh2i.com | 800.380.5405
Traditional Approaches to Combatting Rampant Growth • Large Enterprise Edition clusters • Database merging • Instance stacking • Virtualization 5 DH2i.com | info@dh2i.com | 800.380.5405
An Innovative Approach to Consolidation DxEnterprise for SQL Server Instances How it works: encapsulate workloads and allow them to be moved between hosts, with near-zero downtime 6 DH2i.com | info@dh2i.com | 800.380.5405
DxEnterprise for HA Instances Run Fewer Licenses – and Stay Legal • Enables safe instance stacking » On average, customers run 8-15 instances per OS—no additional licensing • Result: physical and/or logical consolidation • Cost savings from fewer cores 7 DH2i.com | info@dh2i.com | 800.380.5405
Lower Overhead & Cost • Unlimited-node clusters on any edition • Pull all versions in to one unified cluster • Instance-level HA is built-in • Easily extend to DR 8 DH2i.com | info@dh2i.com | 800.380.5405
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Consolidation Case Study • Regional healthcare system in OR & CA • Before » Large WSFC clusters » Enterprise Edition everything » Facing Microsoft true-up of $400,000 • After » Deployed DxEnterprise https://dh2i.com/case-studies/asante/ » Consolidated to 15-20 instances per server » Brought true-up costs down to $20,000 » Easy HA built-in 10 DH2i.com | info@dh2i.com | 800.380.5405
Q&A Subhead goes here Get a demo: dh2i.com/demo ROI analysis or other questions: info@dh2i.com | 800.380.5405 | connor.cox@dh2i.com
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