SQL Server Health Check: Data Sheet
SQL Server Health Check: Data Sheet
SQL Server Health Check: Data Sheet
Coeo can perform a Health Check on your SQL Server estate to help you achieve
optimal performance and uncover vulnerabilities in your environment. This will
enable you to move towards a proactive approach to problem solving, helping to
reduce support costs. The Health Check will contain an analysis of the server and
storage resource utilisation, a configuration review customised to your environ-
ment, and will expose any security risks.
Steps to Achieving
The full report includes: Server Stamina
• Structured action plan for remedia-
tion on in-efficiencies and exposures Reduce Risks - Security, Backup and
with findings in order of priority Disaster Recovery
• Recommendations on configuration • Validation of your backup and data
settings in accordance with Micro- recovery procedures
soft best practise guidelines • Review of Windows and SQL Server
• Direction on capitalising on security for vulnerabilities
opportunities for performance • Review of configuration and align-
optimisation ment to security best practise
• Recommendations on improving • Assessment of the environment’s
routine maintenance to increase capability to meet the Service Level
efficiency and reduce support Agreement (SLA) for Recovery Time
requirements Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point
• Summary of the worst performing Objective (RPO) in the event of
queries - with a practical approach disaster or corruption. This includes
to performance improvement ensuring database maintenance pro-
cedures meet the targets of the SLA.
We provide you with full documentation
but can also deliver the findings as a Reduce Costs - Apply Best Practise
presentation. • Provide guidance and apply Microsoft
best practises for configuration and
management
• Review hardware utilisation and
bottlenecks
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Coeo SQL Server Health Check DATA SHEET
Reduce Bottlenecks - The 2 Phases of the Coeo SQL Server Health Check
Optimise Resources
• Configuration checks to ensure
optimal use of available hardware
Configuration Review Performance Review
• Identification of bottlenecks and their The configuration data collection consists of The Performance Review consists of collection
resolutions where possible the following elements: and analysis of the following:
• Analysis of disk utilisation, storage
configuration and performance Server and storage configuration
Performance data collection including
• Review of tempdb and missing
Windows setup and configuration
indexes - Performance Monitor
Cluster configuration (if applicable)
- SQL Trace
Coeo are used to working with clients SQL Server configuration
- DMV snapshots
that have complicated environments. Database configuration
Our review also covers high availabil- - Custom scripts
ity and complex technologies such as Replication configuration
Indexing creation/ maintenance strategy
Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, Database Mirroring or Log Shipping
Statistics maintenance
Replication, and Log Shipping. configuration
Analysis of SQL Server wait statistics
Database maintenance routines
Working Together Bottleneck analysis
Coeo will need access to your network Windows event logs and SQL Server error logs
and typically spend 2 days on-site
gathering the necessary data and 1 day
off-site to review the data and prepare
your Health Check report. Working
closely with our clients’ IT teams is what
we do every day – all we need to get on
with the job is:
• A user account with Local Admin-
istrator and SQL Server System
Administrator rights
• Local disk storage to accommodate
data collection (typically 10GB is
sufficient)
• Network diagram
• Overview of application Service Level
Agreements
Contact Us:
Tel +44 (0)20 3051 3595
Email info@coeo.com
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