Enabling the Always-On Enterprise
SQL Server Scalability
"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
Despite continued improvements in SQL server performance, customers still struggle with scaling their infrastructure to provide SQL Server Scalability. This problem is magnified by the increasingly dynamic workloads hosted on a mission critical SQL infrastructure. SQL cannot support multiple servers acting on a single database, so in a scale-out environment admins are forced to partition the workload across multiple SQL servers. The resulting SQL infrastructure is fragmented, compromising the availability and performance of the environment, in order to accommodate the limitations of the existing management tools.
The Solution
In contrast, Melio provides a far more efficient approach to managing SQL Server scalability deployments. By managing SQL instances at the database layer, Melio can more granularly provision SQL data in support of the SQL server footprint. With the agility of the storage infrastructure more appropriately aligned with the server tier, the resulting environment is far more flexible and scalable.
Key Benefits
Using Melio's approach to enable SQL Server scalability, DBAs can cost-effectively scale-out their infrastructure while simultaneously gaining greater control of the storage layer. Leveraging this control, administrators can provide improved levels of data protection, snapshots, replication and quality of service.