New HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL server

BANGALORE, INDIA: HP StorageWorks Division today announced the launch of the HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server. HP PolyServe’s unique "shared data" architecture delivers enterprise class availability and virtualization-like flexibility in a utility platform for customers.

The HP PolyServe Software helps enterprises not only reduce the cost of the SQL server but also improve agility.  The new product offers mission critical high availability, instance mobility, and management automation required for mission-critical databases. It will give a scale out capability to the customers SQL infrastructure just by adding more processing power.

“HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL servers offers customers a highly available, flexible, simple approach to SQL Server consolidation”, said Prakash Krishnamoorthy, Country Manager, HP StorageWorks Division, Technology Solutions Group, HP India. “Unique solutions like the HP PolyServe Software will help businesses realize greater value from their existing IT investments, capitalize on next-generation technologies and achieve business outcomes”, he added.

Pallavi Kathuria, Director, Server Business Group, Microsoft India said, “With the introduction, of the HP PolyServe Software, we can now deploy MS SQL Server that can flex capacity to need, reduce capital costs, improve availability and dramatically simplify management. The solution goes beyond just consolidation to provide scalable capacity allocation, on-the-fly instance mobility making it the ideal solution for database consolidation”.

Commenting on the benefits of deploying HP PolyServe for SQL Server, Vikrant Chaudhuri, Head - Global IT Infrastructure, Aditya Birla Minacs said, “With HP PolyServe for SQL Server, we were able to easily deliver 24x7 High availability and improved scalability with load balancing across our SQL Server database instances for mission critical application workloads. This solution also allowed us to improve utilization of our hardware, reduce power, cooling, rack space costs and provide easier management of large number of SQL Server instances. We are now able to quickly deploy new application workloads thereby helping us improve time to market, without worrying about the supporting infrastructure.”

Key features of HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server include:

•Adaptive, Scalable Microsoft SQL Server Platform

–Dynamic Re-Hosting™ to quickly deploy, stack, or reallocate Microsoft SQL Server instances to any server

––Scale out SQL infrastructure just by adding more servers to the farm.

–Distribute SQL instances across the SQL servers based on the user loads without any disruptions to existing operations.

–Mix storage, servers & SQL versions in a cluster. Buy only what is needed and don't buy for peak usages.

•Consolidated Data Management

–Single, shared pool of resources simplifies storage allocation, backup, and configuration tasks

–Stack more instances to lesser number of servers–Consolidate databases to fewer numbers of file systems and LUNS thereby reducing storage management.

–Roll out new instances and thereby applications in minutes.

–Manage servers, storage and SQL instances from one single console.

•High Availability for Mission-Critical Applications –Reliable, easy to manage, high availability for all instances

–Mission critical availability for each of the SQL DB instances without the need for any clustering software.

–"One-Click" and “Roll-Through” maintenance pushes updates or hot fixes to all servers

–Qualified and supported solution in Microsoft SQL Server Always On program