NWT / SQL Server

hyperdrive — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:54:33 GMT

We are planning to move our physical SQL Server 2014 to a new rack and connect it to our new Nimble SAN. We have a very short window of time to do this and I would prefer to not install any HP software like NWT/NCM unless anyone has seen issues with it not being installed. I wouldn't imagine so since it is iSCSI but wanted to get confirmation on this.

Re: NWT / SQL Server

Mahesh202 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:49:45 GMT

Hi hyperdrive

Thank you for coming to the HPE Community forums

To facilitate connectivity and volume management and to leverage application-consistent snapshots for SQL Server, install the HPE Nimble Storage Windows Toolkit (NWT) on the host. NWT is an essential plugin that provides the following capabilities and tools:
HPE Nimble Storage Volume Shadow Copy Server (VSS) services for SQL Server
iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC) connection management
The HPE Nimble Storage Device-Specific Module (NDSM) for multipath I/O (MPIO)
The HPE Nimble Storage Setup Manager (NSM) tool
Also included in the toolkit is a Windows PowerShell module with cmdlets for managing volume attributes, cloning, and connectivity from the Windows host.

Best Practice: Install the NWT on all Windows hosts that run SQL Server, including virtual machines. The NWT can be downloaded from HPE InfoSight.

Please read the below link
https://infosight.hpe.com/InfoSight/media/cms/active/public/tmg_HPE_Nimble_Storage_Deployment_Considerations_for_Microsoft_SQL_Server_doc_version_family.whz/aqf1491862797802.html

Hope this helps you.!

Regards
Mahesh

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