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Design Guide—Data Analytics with SQL Server 2022 on Red Hat OpenShift and Dell ObjectScale

This design guide provides a solution overview and the benefits of a powerful, agile, and flexible cloud-ready infrastructure for running SQL Server 2022 data analytics solution on Red Hat OpenShift and Dell ObjectScale storage.

• SQL Server
• PowerEdge
• Unity
• Hyper-V
• Microsoft

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Deployment Guide—Ready Bundle for Microsoft SQL Server 2016

This deployment guide describes requirements, configuration details, and steps for deploying SQL Server 2016 and Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V virtualization on PowerEdge R740 servers and Unity 400 Hybrid Flash storage.

• SQL Server
• Unity
• Hyper-V
• Microsoft

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Design Guide—Ready Bundle for Microsoft SQL Server 2016

This design guide describes the architecture, design principles, configuration best practices, and sizing guidelines for a SQL Server 2016 solution with Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016, PowerEdge R740 servers, and Unity 400 Hybrid Flash storage.

• SQL Server
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Red Hat
• XtremIO
• Microsoft

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Reference Architecture Guide—Ready Solutions for Microsoft SQL: Design for Dell EMC XtremIO

This guide describes a highly scalable architecture for SQL Server using XtremIO X2 all-flash storage with PowerEdge servers. It details design principles, configuration best practices, and validation with Windows Server 2016 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.

• SQL Server
• Oracle
• PowerMax
• Microsoft
• Data Domain
• mixed workloads

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Reference Architecture Guide—Consolidate and Simplify Mixed Database Workloads

This guide describes the design and testing of mixed SQL Server and Oracle database workloads on a PowerEdge MX modular infrastructure with PowerMax 2000 storage. It also describes data protection using Data Domain DD9300 for backing up an Oracle database.

• SQL Server
• PowerEdge
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Microsoft
• NVMe

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Microsoft SQL 2019 on Intel Optane Persistent Memory (PMem) Using Dell PowerEdge Servers

This design guide describes the advantages of using Microsoft SQL Server 2019 with the Intel Optane persistent memory for a production workload hosted on a Dell platform.

• SQL Server
• best practices

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Design Guide—Modernize Your Microsoft SQL Server Platform and Accelerate Deployments

This design guide describes the best practices for designing and implementing a VMWare-based virtualized SQL Server 2019 solution using Dell PowerStore 1000T storage, Dell PowerEdge servers R750, VMware vSphere 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS 8.

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Implementation Guide—SQL Server 2019 Best Practices on PowerStore

This implementation guide describes the best practices for implementing a VMWare-based virtualized SQL Server 2019 solution using Dell PowerStore 5000T storage, Dell PowerEdge servers R750xs, VMware vSphere 7.0.3, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating system.

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Design Guide—SQL Server 2022 Database Solution with Object Storage on Dell Hardware Stack

This design guide describes the architecture, components, and deployment steps for the SQL Server 2022 S3 Data Analytics solution on Dell’s hardware stack.

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Dell ObjectScale and Integrated Systems for Data Analytics using Microsoft Azure HCI and SQL 2022

This design guide provides a solution overview and the benefits of a flexible, agile, and high-performance infrastructure for running SQL Server 2022 data analytics solution on Dell Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI and Dell ObjectScale storage.