SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise delivers a comprehensive data SQL Server Sysprep enables you to create a library of VHDs,
platform that provides built-in security, availability, and scale ready to be deployed as and when required. This is a major
coupled with robust business intelligence offerings—helping benefit for larger organizations with multiple VMs because it
enable high service levels for mission-critical workloads. speeds up provisioning and increases business agility.
Lower storage costs through Data and Backup
Compression
Reduce costs through server consolidation
SQL Server Data and Backup Compression help to reduce
Reduce the number of physical servers in your enterprise by hardware costs, optimize storage, and improve I/O
consolidating databases onto fewer machines, and benefit performance. Customers have achieved space savings of up
from reduced costs, improved control over your systems, and 4
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to 90 percent with Data Compression and up to 66 percent
a reduced carbon footprint . 5
with Backup Compression Benefit from even greater savings
SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise can take advantage of up to with SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise’s support for UCS-2
eight processors with no limit to the number of processor Unicode compression.
cores and it supports up to 2 TB of memory, making it
The data compression feature in SQL Server 2008 [Enterprise
possible to host multiple databases on a server without Edition] has significantly reduced the amount of storage
compromising performance and scalability. You can isolate required. On average, the customer is reducing storage space
databases by installing multiple instances on a single server by 50%... The result is that no storage needs to be added to
support the SQL Server databases for the next three years.
and provide predictable performance across multiple 3
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database workloads within an instance by using Resource
Governor to define hardware resource limits for individual Increase business continuity
workloads.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides enterprise-class high
Consolidation on a truly scalable platform, such as the HP availability through database mirroring and up to 16-node
Integrity line of servers, not only can deliver positive server clustering capabilities, enabling you to save hardware
economic advantages in the short term, but can position
organizations for lower operating costs, and improved
costs by supporting multiple, redundant SQL Server
service delivery for years to come. instances in a single cluster.
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise also fully supports Windows
Save on hardware and software costs with virtualization Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration, which enables you to
move virtual machines between host servers without
With Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V™, you can consolidate
interrupting service provision. Use Live Migration to
database servers to create virtual data centers that reduce
minimize planned downtime and make more efficient use of
costs and help maximize the value of your software
resources (for example, you can move a reporting application
investment. SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise licensing is
to a higher-powered host at the end of each month). SQL
flexible; it allows for up to four virtual database servers on a
Server 2008 R2 Enterprise further promotes high availability
single licensed physical server, and there are no restrictions
through online indexing and restore operations and hot-add
on moving virtual servers between licensed host machines.
and hot-replace CPU and memory capabilities — reducing
2. http://hp.bellmicro.eu/downloads/HP_Alinean_ServerConsolidation_with_SQL_on_Integrity_CaseStudy.pdf
reporting. SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides a highly 3. http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/1/1/d11349b8-af33-45c4-a89c-
4. http://www.microsoft.com/Casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000003962
enhancing features, such as star join query optimizations, 5. http://www9.unisys.com/eprise/main/admin/corporate/doc/41371394.pdf
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