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Server Consolidation: sql engine (VM)+ data (on SAN)?

  • January 10, 2008 at 10:09 am

    #178090

    Server consolidation is the word of the day here. One of the elements is to use, when applicable, virtual machines in our dev\stage\prod environment. Our sql servers (with local storage) are well utilized and run fine. I don't want to move the entire server (sql 2005 engine + data) into a VM as I think performance will be bad. But, per my question, if only the sql engine is running in a VM while the data is stored on our SAN, I think we may achieve acceptable performance.

    Do you have any thoughts or experience with this mix of VM and SAN from a sql perspective?

    TIA,

    Barkingdog

  • January 10, 2008 at 10:27 am

    #766742

    We are running a number of SQL Server instances on VMWare with no problems. Most are dev/test/QA systems, but we do have some production systems also, and we are not having any problems with them.

    We have not implemented any high volume production systems on VMs.

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