SQL Questionnaire Test SQL Instance
SQL Questionnaire Test SQL Instance
You have asked us to install Microsoft SQL Server on your server. Please take a moment to review and
answer the below questions.
[ ] Existing configuration
If so which other Rackspace Hosted Server?
[ X ] New configuration
SQL Version: Latest Supported
SQL Edition: Latest Supported
Please specify any Microsoft SQL Server service packs and/or cumulative updates you would like the
install.
Service Pack/Cumulative Update: Latest Supported by Rackspace
Please Provide the type of licensing you will use for this SQL Edition
[ ] Customer Provided or
[ X ] Rackspace Provided
(Racker ensure that the customer's selection is reflected in core)
Please specify the type account Microsoft SQL should run under. Select one. Please note multiple
instances should run under separate service accounts.
[ X ] Default Service Account
[ ] Local user Account
[ ] Domain user Account
Please specify any Microsoft SQL Server updates and/or service packs you would like the install. The
latest service pack for your edition is X.
Your server have 4 drives please specify where you would like the following database components to
reside.
[ ] Instance
[ ] SQL data
[ ] Log
[ ] Tempdb
[ ] SQL backup
Your server has 128 GB of memory, we recommend limiting the SQL Max Memory to 125GB (Total RAM
- 3GB) . This will reserve 3 GB for the Operating System. Would you like us to put this setting in to place?
[ ] Yes
[ X ] No
---- Please limit SQL Instance to 100GB for now
* Ultimately the customer is responsible for setting up the additional features of Microsoft SQL. Typically
these features are installed but not configured. Requests to configure these features are on a
reasonable endeavor basis.