Google Cloud Platform Blog
SQL Server images on Google Compute Engine
Monday, August 22, 2016
Posted by Amruta Gulanikar, Product Manager
Enterprise customers are often surprised to learn that
Google Cloud Platform
is a great environment to run their
Windows workloads
. Thanks to GCP’s dramatic price-to-performance
advantages
,
customizable
virtual machines and state-of-the-art
networking
and
security
, customers can migrate key workloads, retire legacy hardware and focus on building and running great applications rather than on maintaining costly infrastructure.
Our goal is to make GCP the best place to run Windows workloads. Starting this week, you can launch
Google Compute Engine VM images preinstalled with Microsoft SQL Server
, with the full range of licensing options and administrative control. Specifically, we now have beta support for these SQL Server versions:
SQL Server Express (2016)
SQL Server Standard (2012, 2014, 2016)
SQL Server Web (2012, 2014, 2016)
and coming soon, SQL Server Enterprise (2012, 2014, 2016)
Why Google Compute Engine for SQL Server
Google Compute Engine
on GCP has key advantages for running SQL Server.
Custom Machine Types
let you tailor CPU core and memory configurations on VMs, allowing enterprises to fine-tune configurations that can reduce the licensing cost of running Microsoft SQL Server compared to other cloud environments. Add in
automatic sustained use discounts
, including the long-term prospect of retiring hardware and associated maintenance, and customers can arrive at total costs lower than many other cloud alternatives.
Regarding speed, Compute Engine VMs’ fast startup times shorten the time it takes to boot up operating systems, and Windows is no exception. On the I/O front, standard and solid-state
persistent disks
associated with Microsoft SQL Server VMs deliver a blazing 20,000 IOPS on 16-core machines and up to 25,000 IOPS on 32-core machines
—
at no additional cost.
Licensing
Compute Engine VMs preinstalled with Microsoft SQL Server allow customers to spin up new databases on-demand without the need to purchase licenses separately. Enterprise customers can pay for premium software the same way they pay for cloud infrastructure: pay as you go, only for what you use. For customers with
Software Assurance from Microsoft
, your existing Microsoft SQL Server licenses transfer directly to GCP. In addition, support is available to customers from both Microsoft and from Google.
Learn more on
our web page
.
Getting started
It’s easy to
get started with $300 in free trial credit
using any of our supported versions of Microsoft SQL Server. Create a boot disk from ready-to-deploy images directly from the Cloud Console.
Here's detailed documentation
around how to create Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server instances on GCP.
Enterprise migration
Customers can get help today with a range of partner-led and self-service
migration options
. For instance, our partner
CloudEndure
replicates Windows and Linux machines at the block level, so that all of your apps, data and configuration come along with your migration.
Contact
the GCP team for a consultation around your Windows and enterprise workloads. Our team is committed to helping support your workloads today, paving the way to build
what’s next
tomorrow.
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