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The following table shows the hardware and software configuration of the Azure VM instance used to host SQL Server database. This VM also acts as an SDC component for the storage cluster.
Hardware | Configuration |
Azure VM size |
|
vCPUs | 16/32/64 |
Memory (GiB) | 64/128/256 |
Storage type (GB) |
|
Expected network bandwidth (MBps) | 30000 |
Software | Version |
Azure VM image | Windows Server 2022 Azure data center edition |
Microsoft SQL Server | 2022 CU 10 |
HammerDB | 4.9 |