Red Hat Insights adds support for Microsoft SQL Server for Linux

Microsoft SQL Server has been offered for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) since September 2017. During this time, we have worked to improve the overall experience for administrators of Microsoft SQL Server on RHEL. One way that we are working to improve the manageability of SQL Server on RHEL is by employing the predictive analytics capabilities of Red Hat Insights.  

Red Hat Insights helps proactively identify and remediate threats to security, performance, availability, and stability to help avoid issues, outages, and unplanned downtime, and to help keep your Red Hat environment running optimally. Put simply, Red Hat Insights is about keeping RHEL systems operating as smoothly as possible. Not just for the software we ship with RHEL, but also with some third-party applications like Microsoft SQL Server.

In January 2017, the Red Hat Insights team began deploying rules tailored to large third-party enterprise applications that could use the fine tuning expertise that Red Hat provides.

This month, I’m excited that a new set of Red Hat Insights rules are being provided for Microsoft SQL Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The Red Hat Insights team introduced new rules to alert administrators to system configurations which are not conforming to the documented recommendations from Microsoft and Red Hat. Here is a list of the initial rules that we’ll be providing.

In most cases, Red Hat Insights provides administrators with Ansible playbooks to correct these issues in a way that is tailored to resolve the problem on the individual host it was identified on through Red Hat Ansible Automation. Learn more about Red Hat Insights.

Bob Ward, SQL Server Principal Architect at Microsoft, “Red Hat Insights strengthens SQL server and RHEL, by providing built-in automated tuning, security, and availability features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, similar to those provided internal to Microsoft SQL at the application level. This holistic and proactive monitoring capability enables customers to automatically identify optimizations and prevent system risks.”

We continue to work together with Microsoft to enhance the overall experience for SQL Server administrators on the RHEL platform. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, we’ve made major strides in performance and security, through Red Hat Insights we’ve also been able to improve manageability.  

If you’re attending Red Hat Summit this week and would like to learn more, please join me and Microsoft SQL Server architect Bob Ward on Thursday as we discuss the new Red Hat Insights features and other exciting enhancements as part of our talk on how to Deploy a modern data platform with SQL Server 2019 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.