White Papers
Table Of Contents
- 1 Microsoft SQL Server 2017: Data warehousing with improved column-store technology
- 2 Recommended reference architectures
- 3 Hardware components
- 4 Storage configuration
- 5 Server configuration
- 6 Windows Server 2016 configuration
- 7 SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition configuration
- 8 Additional considerations for the highly available reference architecture
- 9 DWFT for SQL Server 2017 certification
- 10 Summary
- A Technical support and resources

Hardware components
11 65TB Data Warehouse Fast Track Reference Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 using Dell EMC
PowerEdge R640 and Dell EMC PowerVault ME4024 | 3918-RA-SQL
All-inclusive software: The ME4 Series software provides volume copy, snapshots, IP/FC replication,
VMware
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VCenter Server
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and VMware Site Recovery Manager™ integration, SSD read cache, thin
provisioning, three-level tiering, ADAPT (distributed RAID), and controller-based encryption (SEDs) with
internal key management.
Management: An integrated HTML5 web-based management interface (ME Storage Manager) is included.
For more information, see the ME4 Series product page.