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SQL Server 2019 Containers on Linux
Executive summary Use case overview Supporting software technology Dell EMC servers and storage Use Case 1: Manual provisioning of a containerized dev/test environment Use Case 2: Automated provisioning of a containerized dev/test environment Conclusion Appendix A: Solution architecture and component specifications
Architecture diagram
Server layer
Network layer
Storage layer
Redundancy
Multipathing
Software components
Appendix B: Container resource configuration

Server layer

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Server layer

  • The server layer consists of three PowerEdge R740 servers. The PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server that supports up to:

    • Two Intel Xeon Processor Scalable processors
    • 24 DIMM slots supporting up to 1,536 GB of memory
    • Two AC or DC power supply units
    • 16 SAS, SATA, or near-line SAS hard drives or SSDs

    We configured three bare-metal servers as the three-node Kubernetes cluster. Each node hosted Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.

    The following table lists the PowerEdge R740 configuration details. While the upper limits of resources for the R740 server are significantly higher, this configuration is sufficient for supporting a functional design showing the advantages of containerized SQL Server instances for use in dev/test environments.

    Table 5.              PowerEdge R740 server configuration

    Component

    Details

    Chassis

    2-CPU configuration

    Memory

    12 DDR4 Dual Rank 32 GB @ 2,400 MHz

    Processors

    2 Intel Xeon Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10 GHz with 8 cores

    Host bus adapters

    2 Emulex LightPulse LPe31002-M6-D 2-Port 16 Gb Fibre Channel

    rNDC

    BRCM GbE 4P 5720-t rNDC

    Add-on NIC

    Intel 10 GbE 2P X710

    Power supplies

    2 x Dell 750 W, RDNT, DELTA

    RAID controller

    Dell H740P

    iDRAC

    iDRAC9 Enterprise

    Physical disks
    • 2 x 900 GB SSDs
    • 4 x 1.92 TB HDDs