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52 BP1062 | Best Practices for Decision Support Systems with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 using Dell EqualLogic PS Series
Storage Arrays
7.4.8
Network
2 x Force10 S4810 10Gb Ethernet Switch, Firmware: 8.3.12.1
Storage
2 x EqualLogic PS6110X:
24 x 900GB 10K RPM SAS disk drives as RAID 50, with two hot spare disks
Dual 10GbE controllers running firmware version 6.0.2
This section contains an overview of the software configurations used throughout the testing described in
this document.
Test configuration software components Table 13
Test Configuration Software Components
Operating systems
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Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Enterprise Edition
• EqualLogic Host Integration Toolkit(HIT) version 4.5.0 installed
Applications
SQL Server 2012 SP1 Enterprise Edition
Monitoring Tools EqualLogic SAN Headquarters version 2.5
Windows Perfmon
Simulation Tools
Benchmark Factory for Databases version 6.9