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Microsoft SQL Solution Design Guide Using Cisco SN 5428

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Microsoft SQL Solution Design Guide Using Cisco SN 5428
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Executive Summary This application note provides a performance comparison of the Sequenced Query Language (SQL) 2000 Server between Fibre Channel and Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) implementation via the Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router (Figure 1). The Cisco SN 5428 is an innovative product that offers significant advantages in a workgroup storage environment. The Cisco SN 5428 allows small/medium businesses (SMBs) to cost-effectively migrate from a direct-attached storage (DAS) to a storage area network (SAN) environment. The Cisco SN 5428 Fibre Channel ports can be used to consolidate expensive resources such as disk subsystems and tape libraries to be shared across multiple applications and users. Users are able to deliver block-level storage via Fibre Channel and iSCSI in one box, thereby creating an integrated SAN environment that takes advantage of existing IP network infrastructure and builds a cost-effective business case for SAN implementation. The Cisco SN 5428 allows a phased migration to a SAN environment by allowing Ethernet-attached servers to access the consolidated resources via existing IP networks. For an SMB environment, implementing SANs can often be cost-prohibitive because of the cost of implementing a fibre storage fabric in the existing environment. The Cisco SN 5428 offers a cost-effective solution because low-end servers can now access the Fibre Channel-attached devices via the existing Ethernet network interface cards (NICs) over the existing IP infrastructure without the need for a host bus adapter (HBA). With the Cisco SN 5428, storage managers can manage networks using IP network management tools. The Cisco SN 5428 provides two Gigabit-Ethernet ports, supporting iSCSI, for connectivity to IP-based networks and eight auto-sensing 1/2-Gbps Fibre Channel switch ports. This provides a total throughput of approximately 140 MBps on the Gigabit Ethernet side of the router and approximately 1/2 GBps on the Fibre Channel side of the router.

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