Hey, With the release of MAP toolkit 7.0, Microsoft have taken a huge leap in making this tool more useful across the board. Previously, if you didn’t have the CPT Excel plugin also, manipulating data coming out of the tool wasn’t the most fun. Now however, it puts so much information at your fingertips so […]
Hey, Apologies for the continued absence of posting, work is a harsh mistress… Anyway, something I wanted to share with you as part of my ongoing virtualization learnings (AKA Hiccups). When you have limited resources you may find yourself needing to get deeper with how you dole out the resources to your SQL instance. Setting
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Hi, ***Update 23/11/2011 – Issue identified, with thanks to Brian Carrig! Check the comments for the details *** Just a short one to share something interesting I found while using VMWare to run SQL Server in production. As soon as I get over the mad pre-Christmas rush, I hope to get posts out with more
Hey, Ok, so the third and final part of my little series on virtualization and SQL Server, the disk. In my opinion, laying out a disk on VM is the area which most closely resembles it’s physical server counterpart. It doesn’t really have the hidden pitfalls that memory and CPU bring to the table. So
Hey, Sorry, I had hoped to have this out last week but working on fixing the problems I want to talk about has kept me from it! So last week I covered Virtualization and CPU’s at a high level, and this week I’d like to look at considerations you need to take when speccing out
Hey, So a hot topic in my work life at the moment is virtualization, and it’s going to become a hot topic in other peoples work lives very soon. Virtualization as a whole is a great idea, it’s a money saver, it makes hardware redundancy so much easier to manage, and there are so many
