Dell PowerMax 2500 and 8500 Best Practices for Mission Critical SQL Server Databases

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  Introduction
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  Key benefits of PowerMax with SQL Server databases
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  Terminology
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  We value your feedback

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  PowerMax storage system overview
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  PowerMax architecture
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  PowerMax replication
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  PowerMax data reduction
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  PowerMax Service Levels and SQL Server

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  SQL Server on Windows
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  WSFC and High Availability
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  SQL Server and storage mount points
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  VMware considerations
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  Best practices for deploying SQL Server on Windows
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  ODX example

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  SQL Server on Linux
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  Example: Deploying SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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  Storage considerations for SQL Server on Linux
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  Best practices for deploying SQL Server on Linux

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  Performance validation tests
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  Lab configuration used for the performance tests
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  Performance tests with storage compression disabled
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  Performance results with storage compression enabled

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  Introduction
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  Best practices for SQL Server and PowerMax local replications
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  Example: using snapshots to create a SQL Server database copy