yakko_Warner (11/24/2015)
So, the long and short of it is that TDE did indeed cause increased overhead and the server was not sized correctly to handle the I/O load.
TDE won't increase IO load. It adds a small CPU overhead (the encryption/decryption of the pages).
Gail Shaw
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