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PowerEdge servers have various BIOS profiles that allow customers to configure the server quickly and easily for a workload. The following list includes the BIOS profiles that are included with the servers.
As part of our validation the Database Optimized Performance Profile was used to optimize the server configuration for Microsoft SQL Server. In our database workload tests, our results showed that the Database Optimized Performance Profile slightly improved performance. Therefore, we recommend this profile. If you run Microsoft SQL Server in a bare metal environment with no virtualization, this is the only recommended best practice.
If the database was virtualized with Hyper-V or VMware vSphere, two other changes are recommended.