Fujitsu RapidStructure® for Microsoft® SQL Server®

Fujitsu RapidStructure for Microsoft SQL Server is a flexible infrastructure stack designed to support and consolidate Microsoft SQL Server databases on a reliable platform. It is designed as an easy to use stack built from proven components, where everything gets pre-tested at Fujitsu’s labs for compatibility and reliability. The following components are used as building blocks in this configuration:

Hardware

PRIMERGY industry standard X86 servers
Violin Memory all-flash arrays
ETERNUS DX disk storage subsystems
Brocade Fibre Channel switches

Software

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Fujitsu ServerView Suite

The Fujitsu RapidStructure for Microsoft SQL Server entry model is designed for up to 16 production databases, 20 TB usable capacity, but can be extended for additional capacity and performance requirements.

Features and Benefits
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Key Features	Benefits
Pre-tested and verified SQL Database Consolidation Platform	Speed up of deployment and time to production
Hybrid storage configuration – flash and disk storage Best in class flash array: Average latency below 1 ms Same storage speed across the whole capacity Modular ETERNUS DX disk array Scales up to 360 TB thanks to broad selection of disk types	Appropriate performance levels for different storage requirements Speed-up of Microsoft SQL Server by factors in comparison to hard disk solutions Ideal for performance-sensitive workloads Huge data store for less frequently accessed data, archiving or for backup purposes
No single point of failure by designe	Increased hardware availability by redundancy
Advanced high availability features such as Microsoft AlwaysOn technology, database failover and database mirroring are available	Allows to protect databases against hardware outages locally or on remote sites