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For best practices on the RHEL OS and VMware layer, we enabled the following settings:
Tuned-adm is a command line utility that allows the user to switch between multiple pre-defined and custom tuning profiles. In this best practice, we applied the tuned-adm profile recommended by Microsoft and RHEL for deployments on RHEL.
We recommend using the tuned mssql profile.
To apply this profile, follow the steps and configuration guidelines that are described in Performance best practices and configuration guidelines for SQL Server on Linux.
There are four CPU Power Management Polices that can be selected for an ESXi host:
The ESXi Power Management Policy enables the VMware vSphere administrator to assign a power profile to the virtualized database. In this best practice, the high performance power policy was selected.
We recommend updating the default power policy from balanced to high performance to ensure power management features do not impede database performance.
Use the following steps to update the power management policy:
ESXi Host Power Management Policies
vSphere Resource Management Update 2, VMware vSphere 7.0, VMware ESXi 7.0, vCenter Server 7.0