OK here is my situation, should have explained this before. We create and drop about 10 databases on avg daily basis ( don't ask me why we do this). Now...

Any reason why you wouldn't use FCI?

I am trying to come up with a solution where there is less manual work needed, if i go with AAG as my DR then i will need to make...

Sure, good idea but that wouldn't sync logins, jobs, said packages etc

I have used HammerDB many times, Kendra's post[/url] helped me getting started to use HammerDB....

Sorry replied to wrong post.

Use SQL configuration manager to change passwords, you don't need to restart the services.

There were many discussions on perf monitoring tool here, just two mins of search on this forum will get you lot of info.

Recent discussion can be found here

There are many ways to deal with this, just depends what your goal is. Typically i collect H/W and SQL Server related metrics so that i can tick and tie...

Are the packages stored in msdb or filestore?

I second Jason's comment. I have extensively used both Confio and Sentry, never found any ambiguous data. I think these are leaders in SQL performance monitoring tool.

Confio - Awesome tool...

Take a look at event viewer, see if you can see any warnings or errors related to that drive.

Don Halloran (12/2/2015)

Do you mean changes immediately prior to the failure that may have cause it? Nope. It's also the same...

did you make changes to the account in AD?

I was in similar situation few months ago, after lot of testing i think i was able to crack it. I blogged it here, hopefully it works for you:) .