The SQL Powerrack

Performance optimised database platform

Proven Track Record

Unisys ES7000 products are consistently at the top of the TPC performance & price/performance charts running Microsoft Operating  Systems and Databases, and currently own leading positions in TPC-E (OLTP) and TPC-H (Data Warehouse) benchmarks.
A prominent European public sector client purchased their SQL Server Powerrack because they had a specific application time constraints, and the Unisys solution out-performed the best competition by over 40%.

 

ES7000 SQL Server Powerrack configurations

Unisys offers both fixed and customised SQL Server Powerrack configurations.

Our building block approach allows clients to build SQL Server Powerracks with linear scalability, merely by adding ES7000 cells and DSI subsystem units  Each system comes with Microsoft Windows 2008 R2.  Additionally, for customised configurations Unisys can both build and optimise your Powerrack to specific criteria.

Proof of Concept and Testing services

At the Unisys Performance Centre in Amsterdam, close to Schiphol airport, we provide a service that will build, test and  optimise your SQL environment. Here we provide facilities where customers can work with our experts, use our computing facilities and learn to work with Unisys hardware, middleware and software technologies to improve their own applications.

The Centre runs Workshops, Performance tests, Benchmarks and Proof of Concepts. 
Here you can see the SQL Server Powerrack in action and test your own applications on it before you buy.

 

Additional Readings

To read more about all kind of Solid State tests and how to increase the throughput of all kind of SQL Server operations:

Solid State Storage to the test: use the SQLIO utility to determine the effective Random R/W throughput

Bulk Inserting 1 Terabyte within 10 minutes

Restoring a database

Achieving maximum Backup speed

Achieving maximum Table scan speed:

 

Contact us

For more information, email sqlR2launch@unisys.com, contact your Unisys representative or visit www.unisys.com

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You may have seen the SQL Powerrack operating @ full speed at one of the following events:

Overview

Today’s high-demand enterprise organizations have limited time to wait on database responses that take an age to complete. 

The Unisys ES7000 based SQL Server Powerrack enclosure is a powerful SQL Server optimised platform built with the enterprise customer in mind, providing industry-leading performance, innovative architecture and a solid foundation for database deployment. 

Specifically built for clients whose business demands sub-second response timings in an environment that is designed to scale, the Powerrack easily accommodates data warehousing, and high-end applications with analytical workloads.

The demand for data always increases, and most customers have ever increasing data volumes, requiring high-throughputs.  The Unisys SQL Server Powerrack is ideally suited for the next generation of data warehouse users as they develop multi-terabyte databases supporting hundreds to thousands of users

Unisys is the first in the market to offer a pre-packaged  SQL Server optimized solution based on  the new SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise or Datacenter Editions, the Unisys ES7000 Enterprise server and the fastest storage on the market from Dynamic Solutions International (DSI). It’s the first high-end SQL Server solution completely based on SSD.   With storage capacity ranging from just a few, to up to tens of terabytes.

 

 World Record Holder

Unisys is at the leading edge of system design and tuning for SQL Server environments, always seeking to push the envelope on database performance.
At the 2009 SQL Server PASS Europe conference Unisys demonstrated the power of the SQL Server Powerrack , with a prerelease of SQL Server 2008 R2 and DSI storage live on stage with a new SQL Server World Record speed for bulk loading 1TB of data into a single SQL database; the new SQL Server Powerrack loaded the 1TB database in less than 10 minutes at 14.5 million rows per second. That is over 3.5 times faster than the previous record based on SQL2008 , also held by Unisys.

Configuration

Cores

Ram

Storage Minimum

Storage Maximum

IO Bandwidth

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENTRY LEVEL

24

256 GB

4TB

10TB

4,000 MB

 

 

 

 

 

 

MID RANGE

48

512 GB

8TB

20TB

8,000 MB

 

 

 

 

 

 

PERFORMANCE

96

1024 GB

16TB

50TB

16,000 MB