Brandon Leach (10/18/2012)
We have learned however that in a virtual environment best practices are even more important. It's important to build the VM with performance in mind. 64k allocation unit sizes for volumes for sql files, etc. Its also important as a DBA to understand how your virtual platform works. Datastores in VMWare for example can take your server(s) down.
Brandon, could you elaborate on what you mean by "datastores in VMWare ... can take your server(s) down"? Do you mean something more than a corruption/error/deletion in the datastore will, of course, destroy the server (since the server essentially is the vmdk etc. file)?
Rich