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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

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How to Mitigate SQL Server Costs

Amidst Pandemic-Ravaged Budgets

Connor.Cox@dh2i.com

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  • ISV focused on HA/DR and software defined

perimeter networking security

  • Founded 2010
  • Enterprise customers around the world
  • Key offerings: DxEnterprise and DxOdyssey

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DH2i Company

DH2i HQ: Fort Collins, CO DH2i Engineering: Portland, OR

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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”

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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

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Traditional Approaches to Combatting Rampant Growth

  • Large Enterprise Edition clusters
  • Database merging
  • Instance stacking
  • Virtualization

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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

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  • 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

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DxEnterprise for HA Instances

Run Fewer Licenses – and Stay Legal

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  • Unlimited-node clusters on any edition
  • Pull all versions in to one unified cluster
  • Instance-level HA is built-in
  • Easily extend to DR

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Lower Overhead & Cost

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Demo

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  • Regional healthcare system in OR & CA
  • Before

» Large WSFC clusters » Enterprise Edition everything » Facing Microsoft true-up of $400,000

  • After

» Deployed DxEnterprise » Consolidated to 15-20 instances per server » Brought true-up costs down to $20,000 » Easy HA built-in

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Consolidation Case Study

https://dh2i.com/case-studies/asante/

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Q&A

Get a demo: dh2i.com/demo ROI analysis or other questions: info@dh2i.com | 800.380.5405 | connor.cox@dh2i.com