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Planning Data Warehouse Infrastructure
Planning Data Warehouse Infrastructure
ETL
• Control flow tasks
Data Models • Data query and insert
• Processing • Network data transfer
• Aggregation storage • In-memory data pipeline
• Multidimensional on disk • SSIS Catalog or msdb I/O
• Tabular in memory
• Query execution
Operations and
DW Maintenance
• OS activity
Reporting •
•
Logging
SQL Server Agent Jobs
• Client requests • SSIS packages
• Data source queries
• Indexes
• Report rendering
• Caching • Backups
• Snapshot execution
• Subscription processing
• Report Server Catalog I/O
Typical Server Topologies for a BI Solution
Single-server Distributed
Hardware costs
Software license costs
Configuration complexity
Scalability and performance
Flexibility
Scaling Out a BI Solution
Fibre Switch
Storage Enclosure
Storage
Windows Server Processors
Quad
Storage Enclosure
Dual Port
Core FC HBA
CPU Storage
Processors
Dual Port
FC HBA 4-Spindle RAID 10 Disk Groups
Max I/O Rate = 2,000 MBps Max I/O Rate = 1,800 MBps
Demonstration: Calculating Maximum
Consumption Rate (MCR)
Data Warehouse
Estimating Data Volumes for the Data Warehouse
1. Estimate Initial Fact Data
• Number of fact table rows × row size
• Use 100 bytes per row as an estimate if unknown
Logon Information
Virtual machine: 20767C-MIA-SQL
User name: ADVENTUREWORKS\Student
Password: Pa55w.rd
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