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Building Azure Arc-enabled Data Services for a SQL Managed Instance on Dell PowerFlex
Introduction Product overview Solution architecture
Solution architecture
PowerFlex setup
Kubernetes and CSI setup
Management and operations
Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance
Test scenarios Test case results Conclusion Appendix A: SQL MI and Hammer DB Test Harness details Appendix B: SQL MI related service management using kubectl Appendix C: Red Hat Linux configuration References

Solution architecture

Solution architecture

  • This section provides an overview of the logical architecture of the PowerFlex and Azure Arc-enabled data services platform is built using a tightly integrated multi-layered setup in the lab. Each is easy to deploy, scale, manage, and maintain by platform engineers and DBAs. 

    The architecture has PowerFlex at the platform layer, ESXi hypervisor for server virtualization with VMware vSphere, and a containers layer to deploy DBaaS as self-service provisioned Azure Arc-enabled data services. 

    Figure 2.        PowerFlex and Azure Arc-enabled data services logical architecture