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title: Microsoft SQL Server on VMware Cloud Foundation
url: https://www.vmware.com/solutions/cloud-infrastructure/business-critical-apps/sql-virtualization
description: Accelerate application lifecycles & improve application quality of service by consolidating your SQL Servers on the private cloud with VMware vSphere.
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# Microsoft SQL Server on VMware Cloud Foundation

Reduce complexity and lower TCO when you run your business-critical Microsoft SQL Server instances on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

## Efficiency and Cost Savings

Expedite application lifecycles and enhance application quality of service by consolidating your SQL Server deployments onto VMware Cloud Foundation. Centralize your SQL Server infrastructure to achieve savings in hardware and software expenditures while mitigating the challenging compromises associated with traditional database migration.

### Consolidate SQL Server on VMware Cloud Foundation

Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server on VCF helps consolidate databases while optimizing compute resources. Achieve higher database density with VCF by fully utilizing large virtual machine configurations.

- [GET THE BEST PRACTICES GUIDE](https://www.vmware.com/docs/architecting-mssql-vcf)

### Streamline SQL Server Workloads Migration

Easily migrate the existing SQL Server infrastructure to VMware Cloud Foundation using HCX, which supports a broad spectrum of source environments including physical deployments, alternative hypervisors and different cloud platforms.

- [MIGRATE WORKLOADS WITH HCX](https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vcf-operations-workload-mobility)

### Minimize Impact on Applications

Preserve existing SQL Server configurations with a physical to virtual (P2V) migration, which doesn’t require application refactoring, changes to the operating system or SQL Server versions.

### Save Costs with License Consolidation

Once all the physical processors of a host have been licensed, deploy an unlimited number of SQL Server virtual machines (depending on the edition), consolidating licenses on fewer physical processors.

## Additional Benefits

### Improve SQL Server Performance

Achieve superior application performance in any VMware Cloud Foundation-based environment with precedent performance and high resilience offered by vSAN Express Storage Architecture.

- [READ REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR PERFORMANCE](https://www.vmware.com/docs/vmw-microsoft-sql-server-vmware-vsan-esa-lenovo-thinkagile-vx-series)

### Gain Additional High Availability Features

Microsoft applications’ native HA features are fully supported on VCF.

- [READ HIGH AVAILABILITY BEST PRACTICES](https://www.vmware.com/docs/architecting-mssql-ha-vcf)

### Monitoring SQL Server Workloads On-Demand

Collecting metrics from SQL Server instances deployed in VCF environments and provide predictive analytics and real-time information.

- [MANAGEMENT PACK FOR SQL SERVER](https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-9-0-and-later/9-0/infrastructure-operations/extending-monitoring-capabilities/installing-and-configuring-management-packs-in-vcf-operations-from-vmware-marketplace/list-of-integrations/management-pack-for-microsoft-sql-server.html)

## Resources

### [Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware Cloud Foundation](https://www.vmware.com/docs/architecting-mssql-vcf)

### [Architecting Microsoft SQL Server for High Availability on VMware Cloud Foundation](https://www.vmware.com/docs/architecting-mssql-ha-vcf)

### [Microsoft SQL Server with VMware Data Services Manager](https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/advanced-services/data-services-manager#features)

- [SEE ALL RESOURCES](https://www.vmware.com/solutions/cloud-infrastructure/business-critical-apps/sql-virtualization/resources)

## Also of Interest

- [VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service](https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vsphere-kubernetes-service)
- [VMware Cloud Foundation Networking (NSX)](https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/nsx)
- [VMware Cloud Foundation Edge](https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vmware-cloud-foundation-edge)