Use the following SQL to drop the tables and indexes in the HammerDB TPC-H schema, so that you can re-load it.
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Some versions of HammerDB (e.g. 3.2) may induce imbalanced NUMA utilization with SQL Server. This can easily be observed with Resource monitor. When NUMA imbalance occurs one of the NUMA nodes will show much larger utilization than the other. E.g. The cause and fix is well documented on this blog. In short HammerDB issues a…
Read More →TL;DR It’s pretty easy to get 1M SQL TPM running a TPC-C like workload on a single Nutanix node. Use 1 vDisk for Log files, and 6 vDisks for data files. SQL Server needs enough CPU and RAM to drive it. I used 16 vCPU’s and 64G of RAM. Running database servers on Nutanix is an…
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