SQL Server and VMware Resource Pools
Resource pools are used to hierarchically partition available CPU and memory resources, and are available for use at the VMware host cluster layer. To better prioritize certain VMs over...
2020-04-06
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Resource pools are used to hierarchically partition available CPU and memory resources, and are available for use at the VMware host cluster layer. To better prioritize certain VMs over...
2020-04-06
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Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) should be enabled for all VMware host clusters, especially those who run SQL Server. It provides for resource consumption load balancing functionality into a host...
2020-03-25 (first published: 2020-03-16)
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I’ve talked for months now about the ability to run SQL Server on the Linux platform. For those of you interested in exploring the benefits of this platform, you’re...
2020-03-19
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By default, the vSphere vCenter deployment contains a virtual appliance where the VMware management and orchestration platform, vCenter, resides and runs from. The default performance metric statistics collection interval...
2020-03-16 (first published: 2020-03-09)
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I’m proud to announce that I’ve been awarded the VMware vExpert community award for the calendar year 2020. I’m absolutely thrilled to be awarded this title for the eighth...
2020-03-04
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This Wednesday, February 26th, I will be presenting a new session entitled “All Things SQL in the Microsoft Cloud” for the Omaha Azure Users Group, starting at 6pm Central...
2020-02-24
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For years, I’ve done consulting around helping organizations tune their database platforms, both from within the database and underneath, to help boost performance and availability. Some database design or...
2020-02-06 (first published: 2020-02-03)
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A wonderful reader of my blog sent me a note (thanks Jess!) about a single line notation in the latest SQL Server release notes. The notes is as follows....
2020-01-15 (first published: 2020-01-06)
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GigaOm, an independent research firm that I highly respect, released a study today comparing performance and price between a SQL Server VM on Microsoft’s Azure platform and a SQL...
2019-12-19 (first published: 2019-12-04)
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As leader of the PASS High Availability and Disaster Recovery virtual chapter, I invite you to bring your questions for a mega open Q&A session on Tuesday, December 10th,...
2019-12-04
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By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month, and I’m late. My apologies. I had a...
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
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