This document discusses virtualization and provides guidance on virtualizing servers. It covers:
- Reasons for virtualization like increased server utilization and efficiency
- Steps for planning virtualization including addressing organizational challenges
- Factors for identifying good candidates for virtualization like application vendor support
- Best practices for the virtualization process including establishing a baseline and testing
- Potential issues to watch out for called "gotchas" and hints to improve performance
- Case studies on how Allstate and Accenture benefitted from virtualization.
Once the ‘Backup Database’ command executed, SQL Server automatically does few ‘Checkpoint’ to reduce the recovery time and also it makes sure that at point of command execution there is no dirty pages in the buffer pool. After that SQL Server creates at least three workers as ‘Controller’, ‘Stream Reader’ and ‘Stream Writer’ to read and buffer the data asynchronously into the buffer area (Out of buffer pool) and write the buffers into the backup device.
SQL Server High Availability Solutions (Pros & Cons)Hamid J. Fard
Proper SQL Server High Availability Solution Is Highly Depends on the Business Objective and IT Operation Objectives. It Happens Sometimes that We Might Have Few Solutions on the Table to Implement.
Once the ‘Backup Database’ command executed, SQL Server automatically does few ‘Checkpoint’ to reduce the recovery time and also it makes sure that at point of command execution there is no dirty pages in the buffer pool. After that SQL Server creates at least three workers as ‘Controller’, ‘Stream Reader’ and ‘Stream Writer’ to read and buffer the data asynchronously into the buffer area (Out of buffer pool) and write the buffers into the backup device.
SQL Server High Availability Solutions (Pros & Cons)Hamid J. Fard
Proper SQL Server High Availability Solution Is Highly Depends on the Business Objective and IT Operation Objectives. It Happens Sometimes that We Might Have Few Solutions on the Table to Implement.
VMworld 2013: VMware Disaster Recovery Solution with Oracle Data Guard and Si...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Kannan Mani, VMware
Brad Pinkston, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Building the Perfect SharePoint 2010 Farm - SPS Brisbane 2011Michael Noel
SharePoint 2010 has matured over the past year, with improvements in scalability, enterprise search, and administration. Best practices from SharePoint 2007 are no longer relevant, and new guidance has emerged from the last year worth of SharePoint deployments. In addition, new features such as SharePoint FAST Search capabilities can have a significant effect on how an environment is architected. In addition, the popularity of server virtualization technologies have created new design options for SharePoint administrators, allowing for new and unique high availability and provisioning options. This session goes right to the heart of the matter, providing for physical and virtual architecture guidelines and specific configuration settings that can immediately be used to construct SharePoint 2010 environments that can be used to replace existing SharePoint 2007 farms. Architectural specifics are based on best practices obtained from existing SharePoint 2010 environments of multiple sizes and performance metrics gathered from both physical and virtual SQL Server and SharePoint environments will help you to build the ‘perfect’ SharePoint 2010 farm for your organization.
SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Groups New FeaturesJohn Martin
This deck was presented at SQL Relay 2015 in Bristol;
In this deck we will look at some of the new capabilities that are slated for release as part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2016 platform.
Demo code for this deck can be found at: http://1drv.ms/1PC8707
Compare Clustering Methods for MS SQL ServerAlexDepo
Clustering is very important technology for High Availability and it is important for DBA to understand benefits and pitfalls. With very few available techniques and a lot of gray areas right decision might help to avoid extra costs. Presentation is unveiling clustering basics, reviews and compares clustering technologies including Microsoft, XCOTO Gridscale, and HP PolyserveMatrix. This presentation can be helpful not only to beginners but to intermediate level DBAs and infrastructure managers.
VMworld 2013: VMware Disaster Recovery Solution with Oracle Data Guard and Si...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Kannan Mani, VMware
Brad Pinkston, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Building the Perfect SharePoint 2010 Farm - SPS Brisbane 2011Michael Noel
SharePoint 2010 has matured over the past year, with improvements in scalability, enterprise search, and administration. Best practices from SharePoint 2007 are no longer relevant, and new guidance has emerged from the last year worth of SharePoint deployments. In addition, new features such as SharePoint FAST Search capabilities can have a significant effect on how an environment is architected. In addition, the popularity of server virtualization technologies have created new design options for SharePoint administrators, allowing for new and unique high availability and provisioning options. This session goes right to the heart of the matter, providing for physical and virtual architecture guidelines and specific configuration settings that can immediately be used to construct SharePoint 2010 environments that can be used to replace existing SharePoint 2007 farms. Architectural specifics are based on best practices obtained from existing SharePoint 2010 environments of multiple sizes and performance metrics gathered from both physical and virtual SQL Server and SharePoint environments will help you to build the ‘perfect’ SharePoint 2010 farm for your organization.
SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Groups New FeaturesJohn Martin
This deck was presented at SQL Relay 2015 in Bristol;
In this deck we will look at some of the new capabilities that are slated for release as part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2016 platform.
Demo code for this deck can be found at: http://1drv.ms/1PC8707
Compare Clustering Methods for MS SQL ServerAlexDepo
Clustering is very important technology for High Availability and it is important for DBA to understand benefits and pitfalls. With very few available techniques and a lot of gray areas right decision might help to avoid extra costs. Presentation is unveiling clustering basics, reviews and compares clustering technologies including Microsoft, XCOTO Gridscale, and HP PolyserveMatrix. This presentation can be helpful not only to beginners but to intermediate level DBAs and infrastructure managers.
09ntc Server Virtualization Session SlidesPeter Campbell
Slides from the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference Session on Server Virtualization. These slides introduce the main concepts and suggest approaches for small, medium and large business scenarios. the latter set of slides are by matt eshelman of CITIDC, who presented with me.
VMware End-User-Computing Best Practices PosterVMware Academy
The End-User-Computing Best Practices poster gives you up-to-date tips and guidelines for configuring and sizing the wide range of EUC products. Enlarge and print!
Private Cloud Academy: Backup and DPM 2010Aidan Finn
The session I ran on how to design CSV for Hyper-V backups, and how to use DPM 2010, at the Microsoft/System Dynamics Private Cloud Academy in Dublin, Ireland.