This Tuesday, June 23rd, at 3pm Eastern time I will be co-presenting a free live webinar with Sumeet Bansal from Tegile Systems at MSSQLTips entitled “Performance insights and tuning of Physical and Virtual SQL Servers”. Register for this free webinar here! All registrants will be registered for a raffle for  GoPro Hero digital video camera too!

Webinar Description:

This session will cover some of the best practices on setting up SQL Server in a virtual environment. You will learn what knobs and levers to tweak to get the best performance out of your setup. The speaker will cover various methods of collecting and analyzing performance data as well as pinpointing performance bottlenecks. You will also see a demo of performance you should expect from your virtualized SQL Servers. By the end of the session, you will have the information to improve utilization by leveraging virtualization for your SQL Server platform while delivering high performance. You will also have the necessary tools and data to have an educated conversation with your storage teams.

Speakers:

David Klee is a Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert with over seventeen years of IT experience. David spends his days handling performance and HA/DR architecture of mission-critical SQL Servers as the Founder of Heraflux Technologies. His areas of expertise are virtualization and performance, datacenter architecture, and risk mitigation through high availability and disaster recovery. You can read his blog at davidklee.net, and reach him on Twitter at @kleegeek.

Sumeet Bansal as a VP of IT and lead DBA implemented flash technology at wine.com in late 2009 to solve critical business problems. He implemented the first data warehouse at wine.com to streamline analytical reporting. He has over 16 years of IT experience covering database platforms such as Oracle and SQL Server along with datacenter architectures. His database experience involves extensive hands-on work with database performance, application acceleration and systems administration. Summet has been the resident SQL Server and database expert at several top flash companies including: Fusion-io, Violin Memory and most recently Tegile.