Microsoft SQL Server Setup Information Request
You have asked us to install Microsoft SQL Server on your server. Please take a moment to review and
answer the below questions.
Should this build be modeled after an existing configuration or is it a new configuration?
[ ] 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 if this is a standalone or clustered instance
[ ] Standalone
[ X ] Clustered
Please specify the instance name
[ SETEST ] ----- this instance will be for our TEST database that will be clustered on the Bronze
SAN.
MSDTC name for clustered instances only.
[ ]
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 the database collation type.
---- SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
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.
Please fill in the below features you would like installed/
[ X ] SQL Database Engine
[ X ] SQL Reporting Server*
[ ] SQL Analysis Server*
[ X ] SQL Integration Server*
[ X ] SQL Client Tools
Drive Name and purpose
ex. For best performance we recommend the following
C: Instance
S: SQL data
L: Log
T: Tempdb
U: SQL backup
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.