What you state is not possible if log shipping is working correctly. And I will go so far as to say it won't be a SQL Server bug either because...

Definitely recommend getting a (good) consultant certified to work for you so they can be on standby to jump on as soon as the event starts occurring again. There are...

There are a large number of things that could be in play here. I don't know that a forum is the place for them because it is an intermittent problem....

I ignore what admins/devs tell me when digging into an outage scenario like this. The data I collect will do all the talking necessary almost without exception. And if you...

1) Glad you got it fixed.

2) "...I didn't even know where to begin..." - That is actually the single most important thing on this entire thread, and is...

If you want to get your problems resolved ASAP, hire a professional tuning expert. You have given us essentially nothing to go on to help resolve what sounds like severe,...

Log shipping is easiest, BY FAR. But like mirroring it does everything. 

Since it sounds like you want a "SMALL" subset of tables, I would just create simple triggers...

Does your HOST and VM have a good bit more than 128GB of RAM available/reserved for the VM? If not that would be priority #1 in my book (unless you...

Just making statements of fact - nothing more sadly for you.

I think you should spin it up in XML in the engine inside the trigger. I hear that...