Table of ContentsWindows NT Scalability Outline What is Scalability? Scale UP & OUT Focus Here Scalability is Important Q: Why Does Microsoft Care? A: Billions of clients need millions of servers Outline How Scaleable is NT?? The Single Node Story Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition What Happens in 10 Years? NT vs UNIX SMPs Transaction Throughput TPC-C NT Scales Better Than Solaris Only NT Has Economy of Scale Scaleup To Big Databases? Database Scaleup: TerraServer™ TerraServer System Demo Manageability Windows NT 5.0 and Windows 98 Thin Client Support TSO comes to NT lower per-client costs Windows NT 5.0 IntelliMirror™ Outline Scale OUT Clusters Have Advantages How scaleable is NT?? The Cluster Story microsoft.com Tandem 2 Ton Billion Transactions per Day Project Billion Transactions Per Day Hardware Cluster Architecture Local Debit Credit Distributed Debit Credit - Same DTC Distributed Debit Credit - Different DTC 1.2 B tpd How Much Is 1 Billion Tpd? 1 B tpd: So What? Cluster Server: High Availability WolfPack Cluster IIS & SQL Failover Demo Summary Scalability Research Problems |
Author: Jim Gray |