Quick Reference Guide

Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance 1000
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See the Fast Track Reference Guide for detailed recommendations on system memory configurations.
Quickstart Software
In collaboration with Microsoft, Dell developed a wizard to simplify deploying the Quickstart appliance.
The wizard configures the Quickstart appliance based on best practices of Microsoft Fast Track Data
Warehouse for SQL Server 2012 Guidelines, and ensures the appliance is properly connected to the
target domain and installed with the appropriate administrators.
Additionally, Dell has developed an internal disaster recovery system for the Quickstart Data
Warehouse that allows the user to set the appliance back to the original factory state, regardless of
the state of the operating system.
Applications Settings
The following section describes the operating system and database configuration settings.
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Enable Lock Pages In Memory: This policy setting is enabled to prevent the system from
paging memory to disk. See Enable the Lock Pages in Memory Option (Windows) for more
information.
SQL Server 2012
• SQL Server Startup Options:
Second Socket Not Populated
Figure
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: Memory Slot Locations