Dedicating or reserving database server(s) for a single tenant usage, in terms of infrastructure and software, comes under a dedicated database as a service offering.
Natively, neither SQL nor MySQL resource providers have capabilities to reserve database servers for a single tenant. The following options can be leveraged for providing dedicated DBaaS services by organizations and service providers:
VM Role gallery item (IaaS and DBaaS)
Dedicated groups and plans (this is not recommended in large deployments)
VM Role gallery items providing database services include a combination of both IaaS and DBaaS service models. Service providers can have gallery items, which include automated OS and DB Servers deployment and configurations as per the parameters provided by tenants in a self-service portal. In this scenario, both OS and DB layers have to managed by tenants only.
A supported database list is also increased...