Enabling the Always-On Enterprise
SQL Server Consolidation
"SQL server proliferation has forced too many organizations down the ugly path of SQL server sprawl. SQL sprawl exponentially increases DBA operational tasks and management to the breaking point. It's become a waking nightmare. Sanbolic's Melio software relieves that stress by consolidating their SQL ecosystem into something far simpler and more manageable."
- Marc Staimer, President and CDS of Dragon Slayer Consulting.
"Achieving true SQL server consolidation is much more than just virtualized SQL instances. SQL consolidation should also deliver clustering, high availability, and load balancing on top of the newly consolidated footprint. Users that wish to garner the best possible ROI from their SQL environment should look at solutions such as Sanbolic's Melio Enterprise which delivers this functionality embedded in its AppCluster solution."
- Laura DuBois, Program Vice President, Storage Software, IDC.
The Problem
SQL Server workloads, both physical and virtual, have become increasingly prevalent in enterprise IT infrastructure. And while server virtualization consolidates SQL instances on fewer physical machines, users have not seen a commensurate reduction in overall costs due to the complexity and management burden of the supporting the storage infrastructure. The reality is that SQL consolidation can actually create more problems than it solves without a coordinated back-end data store that is aligned with the virtualized SQL server infrastructure.
The Solution
Melio enables SQL Server Consolidation by centrally managing and protecting an aggregated pool of SQL data. Augmenting and enhancing the underlying storage infrastructure, the shared data management layer is available to all the physical and virtual servers within the infrastructure. Managed in an active-active configuration, Melio supports non-disruptive failover/migration, load balancing and sharing of SQL instances.
Key Benefits
The Melio approach to SQL server consolidation is a more efficient and flexible solution that using virtualization or failover clustering alone. Additionally, Melio provides the added benefit of increased application availability and data protection, as well as remote DR support. At the storage layer, Melio increases storage availability while improving storage utilization and simplifying management.