Windows NT Scalability

Table of Contents

Windows 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

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