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Dell PowerStore with Azure Arc-enabled Data Services
Executive summary Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Hardware Dell PowerStore integration Performance study Lessons learned and environment details
Lessons learned and environment details
Hybrid cluster environment
Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance pod placement
Environment details
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Conclusion
Appendix References

Conclusion

Conclusion

  • Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance makes it easier for database administrators to manage on-premises SQL Server workloads in a hybrid and multicloud deployment model. This paper demonstrates the power and capability of the Dell PowerStore and PowerEdge products, combined with Arc-enabled SQL MI including contained availability group, to deliver a high availability DBaaS solution.

    Unlike many performance studies, this workload was run on a very common hardware configuration. The PowerEdge servers with Intel® Xeon® Gold processors and 256GB DD4-DRAM are an affordable configuration with room to grow.

    Throughout this study we have demonstrated exceptional performance, simplified and accelerated deployment, and predictable scale. Benefits include:

    • Deploy entire database environments, including Always On Group environments (with separate copies of each database), in as little as two to three minutes.
    • 15% performance improvement when comparing an Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Business Critical vs. a SQL Server 2019, Windows, and VMware ESXi configuration.
    • 60 Seconds to deploy an Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Business Critical environment with HA capability.
    • Leverage existing SQL Server skill experience, as this is the same SQL engine.
    • Remove the burden of selecting and balancing RAID levels with the data redundancy feature provided by the PowerStore Dynamic Resiliency Engine.
    • Easily move data between traditional SQL Server instances and an Arc-enabled SQL MI with PowerStore’s multiprotocol file access capabilities.
    • Flexible storage system that provides a single architecture unified (block and file) or block optimized workloads to support a wide variety of traditional and modern workloads.
    • No tuning required. Performant “out of the box” with default settings.

    The combination of Arc-enabled SQL MI and a Dell Technologies infrastructure foundation helps ease and accelerate SQL Server data estate modernization strategies in a hybrid and multicloud world.