The process for installing MySQL from a repository for SLES/OEL/RHEL or Centos is the most straightforward. This guide will showcase how to install MySQL for a dnf based repository.
Please see the MySQL installation guide for more instructions that may not be covered here.
The instructions below are taken from this location.
Run the following command as root. This will add the MySQL repository to the systems respiratory list.
rpm -ivh https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql80-community-release-el8-1.noarch.rpm
Disable the local MySQL instance by running the following.
dnf module disable mysql
Assuming that the version of MySQL to be installed will be 8.0 or above run the following to ensure 5.7 is not installed.
dnf config-manager --disable mysql57-community
Now to install mysql run the following.
yum install mysql-community-server
More information about how to deploy MySQL on FlashArray can be found in Optimizing SQL Server Operations and Scale with Everpure.