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JosApeldoorn
Oct 16, 2024Copper Contributor
HPC databases service broker requirements
Hello, Working as an OPS engineer on our off the shelf application which also uses HPC. Our security team found that service broker is enabled on all HPC databases. I've looked into it and to me i...
Kidd_Ip
Jun 20, 2026MVP
I believe no, it does not require SQL Server Service Broker to be enabled for its databases. Service Broker is not used by HPC Pack for job scheduling or cluster management; it may be enabled by default when databases are created, but it is not a functional dependency, learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/high-performance-computing/system-requirements-for-hpc-pack?view=hpc19-ps