Home > Workload Solutions > SQL Server > White Papers > SQL Server 2019 Best Practices on PowerEdge Servers and PowerStore T Model Arrays > Executive summary
The number of databases and database infrastructure has increased for most enterprises. This can present challenges to IT staff and database administrators (DBAs) to keep mission-critical databases running efficiently and optimally, especially in consolidated infrastructures. One strategy to mitigate this challenge is to apply best practices for each component in the database infrastructure solution.
Dell is committed to ensuring customer success by providing best practices which were developed, validated, and consolidated by the engineers and subject matter experts (SME). The goal of this document is to improve customer outcomes when using Dell’s infrastructure for SQL Server database solutions.
This paper provides best practice guidance for using Dell PowerStore T model arrays and PowerEdge R750xs servers with SQL Server database running in a virtualized environment with VMware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.