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This solution does not use external storage and depends on internal storage. Different types of storage devices are grouped to serve different purposes in this solution as described below:
Also, we used a separate type of storage in the App Direct server. The PMem is configured in App Direct mode. The following table provides the software details:
Component name | Details |
Server BIOS version | 2.8.1 |
iDRAC Lifecycle Controller Version | 4.00.00.00 |
System CPLD | 1.1.3 |
Intel Optane memory firmware | 01.02.00.5395 |
Operating system | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 |
Database | SQL Server 2019 CU5 |
DBMS | Microsoft SQL Server 2019 CTP 3.0 |