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Dell Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is an optimal platform to host Microsoft SQL Server 2022 workloads. Results obtained show how Azure Stack HCI nodes provide almost linear scalability for SQL Server 2022. In a 4-node architecture, we observed the transactional output just slightly decayed from linearity when we reached the 12 VM mark. Transactional throughput must be accompanied by a latency within acceptable boundaries. In all the variants tested, the latency was below 1.5 ms, and in most of the cases showed a sub-millisecond response. IOPS also scaled as we increased the number of SQL Server instances, and the platform kept CPU utilization below 30 percent in the most demanding cases. This allowed us to use the Azure Stack HCI infrastructure to host other type of workloads concurrently.