Distributed transactions are enabled on SQL Server on Linux by introducing MSDTC and RPC endpoint mapper functionality within SQL Server. By default, RPC endpoint-mapping process listens on port 135 for incoming RPC requests and provides registered components information to remote requests. Remote requests can use the information returned by endpoint mapper to communicate with registered RPC components, such as MSDTC services. Please refer this page for more details on MSDTC.

Supported transaction standards:

The following MSDTC configurations are supported:

Below are step by step process to enable MSDTC on SQL server on Linux environment.

Step#1: Configure RPC and MSDTC ports:

• Use mssql-conf to set the network.rpcport value to 13500.

sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf set network.rpcport 13500

• Set the distributedtransaction.servertcpport value to 51999.

sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf set distributedtransaction.servertcpport 51999

• Restart SQL Server

sudo systemctl restart mssql-server

Step#2: Configure Firewall:

Configure the firewall to allow communication on rpcport, servertcpport, and port 135. This enables MSDTC process to communicate externally to other transaction managers and coordinators.

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=51999/tcp --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=135/tcp --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd –reload

Step#3: Configure Port Routing:

Configure the Linux server routing table so that RPC communication on port 135 is redirected to SQL Server's network.rpcport

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-forward-port=port=135:proto=tcp:toport=13500
sudo firewall-cmd –reload