This document discusses best practices for virtualizing SQL Server. It outlines the advantages of virtualization like high availability and flexibility. It covers licensing considerations for virtual SQL, as well as VM configuration guidelines for optimizing performance. Backup strategies that support full recovery are recommended. The document also discusses clustering and high availability options like vSphere HA and SQL AlwaysOn clustering to provide redundancy. Key takeaways are to use templates for VM configuration, obtain vCenter access, and to scale resources as needed rather than overprovisioning.
Getting it Right: OpenStack Private Cloud StorageNetApp
The benefits of cloud are indisputable. Storage, however, remains a complex, expensive aspect of setting up a cloud ― one you can’t afford to get wrong. When it comes to storage for OpenStack, one size doesn’t fit all, and you need to choose the right tool for the job.
Take a look at this presentation to learn:
* What workloads are best suited for performance-optimized block storage
* What storage features are critical to the success of your OpenStack cloud
* How and where to utilize complementary object storage
Initial deck on WebSphere eXtreme Scale with WebSphere Commerce ServerBilly Newport
This is the deck used to show how IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale improves the usability of WebSphere Commerce Server by replacing private per JVM disk based caches with a shared datagrid based one for page fragment caching.
Introduction to CloudStack Storage Subsystembuildacloud
Explore CloudStack storage architecture. Discuss the new CloudStack storage API and learn how to integrate all kinds of storages (s3/swift/NetApp/Ceph etc) into CloudStack.
Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. One question is what they do to solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environments have: DR? Virtualization itself has done wonderful things for DR, but hyperconvergence promises to take things further. Is what VMware and Hyper-V offer good enough? If not, is hyperconverged infrastructure the answer? That’s what W. Curtis Preston, Senior Analyst from Storage Switzerland and Mike Lyon, Service Delivery Manager from Scale Computing discuss in this on demand webinar.
Getting it Right: OpenStack Private Cloud StorageNetApp
The benefits of cloud are indisputable. Storage, however, remains a complex, expensive aspect of setting up a cloud ― one you can’t afford to get wrong. When it comes to storage for OpenStack, one size doesn’t fit all, and you need to choose the right tool for the job.
Take a look at this presentation to learn:
* What workloads are best suited for performance-optimized block storage
* What storage features are critical to the success of your OpenStack cloud
* How and where to utilize complementary object storage
Initial deck on WebSphere eXtreme Scale with WebSphere Commerce ServerBilly Newport
This is the deck used to show how IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale improves the usability of WebSphere Commerce Server by replacing private per JVM disk based caches with a shared datagrid based one for page fragment caching.
Introduction to CloudStack Storage Subsystembuildacloud
Explore CloudStack storage architecture. Discuss the new CloudStack storage API and learn how to integrate all kinds of storages (s3/swift/NetApp/Ceph etc) into CloudStack.
Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. One question is what they do to solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environments have: DR? Virtualization itself has done wonderful things for DR, but hyperconvergence promises to take things further. Is what VMware and Hyper-V offer good enough? If not, is hyperconverged infrastructure the answer? That’s what W. Curtis Preston, Senior Analyst from Storage Switzerland and Mike Lyon, Service Delivery Manager from Scale Computing discuss in this on demand webinar.
There are many ways to reduce costs in IT. Consolidation is one of these ways. Many IT managers thinking only about virtualization when consider consolidation. Multi-instancing is very legitimate and effective way too. Managers and DBAs have to understand benefits and pitfalls, difference from virtualization. Presentation is unveiling real-world practice and experience of support of over 70 servers with at least 6 instances on each with over 2500 databases. This presentation can be helpful for infrastructure managers, system architects, and DBAs .
Log-Structured File System (LSFS) as a weapon to fight “I/O Blender” virtuali...StarWind Software
A side effect of the massive server workload consolidation enabled by hypervisor-based virtualization has been the addition of 7 to 16 I/O ports per machine to handle the I/O requirements of the hosted apps. But, before the data can be sent to and from storage devices, virtualization administrators often confront a more challenging problem that some have taken to calling the I/O Blender Effect. The I/O Blender effect is seen when multiple virtual machines send their I/O streams at the same time to a hypervisor for processing, increasing random accesses and increasing latency. Some software-defined storage (SDS) architectures are actually making the problem worse by caching raw small logical block writes using flash memory devices, leading to accelerated wear of the device and contributing virtually no improvement in storage I/O performance.
SaaSification in Action. Attracting Software Vendors with Easy TransformationJelastic Multi-Cloud PaaS
Software vendors got to the point that as-a-service is not just hype but new opportunities for their businesses. That’s why currently we increasingly frequently hear about launching Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS). The transition is in active phase but many ISVs are struggling with technical blockers or lack of expertise on their way to the desired outcome. In this presentation, you'll find out how cloud hosting service providers can ease the transformation for software vendors, thus attracting ISVs as potential clients, building value in own services, and ultimately customer retention.
Jelastic provides a turnkey Private, Public and Hybrid cloud platform that brings together unlimited PaaS ease of use and container-based IaaS flexibility.
Kubernetes uses Requests and Limits values to determine where and how to execute pods. This presentation pretends to cover these concepts besides Quality of Services classes. It also points to a demo that uses Virtlet to share CPU workload.
Doesn't matter if you are a SQL Developer, BI Developer, DBA or a combination of those, we all need to have the right tools to get our jobs done. Now that many of the tools for SQL Server are no longer being included with the installer we will all have to do more work to get everything setup and ready. What are BIDS and SSDT? What version(s) of SSDT do I need? Can I install multiple different versions of these on the same workstation? Can I do .NET development and SQL Server development in the same tools? These are just the start of the questions you may be asking when getting a workstation setup. There are lots of other tools out there that you might find useful and tips/tricks in the tools you are already used to. Some time will also be spent on the advantages/disadvantages to using VMs for your development workstation. By the end of this session you will be able to build the best development workstation and be able to keep it up-to-date into the future.
[NetherRealm Studios] Game Studio Perforce ArchitecturePerforce
Get an in-depth look at how NetherRealm Studios, creator of the Mortal Kombat franchise, addresses the challenges that modern game development poses to network architecture and resources.
Make your storage work for you: VAAI and ODX offload up to 30% of disk operat...StarWind Software
Hypervisor CPU and Networking overhead is a common issue for operations like VM provisioning, migration, and cloning. There should be a way to enhance performance by offloading the unnecessary CPU load and shrinking the SAN traffic. ODX and VAAI features do exactly this by offloading routine disk tasks to the storage array so they will be executed more effectively.
There are many ways to reduce costs in IT. Consolidation is one of these ways. Many IT managers thinking only about virtualization when consider consolidation. Multi-instancing is very legitimate and effective way too. Managers and DBAs have to understand benefits and pitfalls, difference from virtualization. Presentation is unveiling real-world practice and experience of support of over 70 servers with at least 6 instances on each with over 2500 databases. This presentation can be helpful for infrastructure managers, system architects, and DBAs .
Log-Structured File System (LSFS) as a weapon to fight “I/O Blender” virtuali...StarWind Software
A side effect of the massive server workload consolidation enabled by hypervisor-based virtualization has been the addition of 7 to 16 I/O ports per machine to handle the I/O requirements of the hosted apps. But, before the data can be sent to and from storage devices, virtualization administrators often confront a more challenging problem that some have taken to calling the I/O Blender Effect. The I/O Blender effect is seen when multiple virtual machines send their I/O streams at the same time to a hypervisor for processing, increasing random accesses and increasing latency. Some software-defined storage (SDS) architectures are actually making the problem worse by caching raw small logical block writes using flash memory devices, leading to accelerated wear of the device and contributing virtually no improvement in storage I/O performance.
SaaSification in Action. Attracting Software Vendors with Easy TransformationJelastic Multi-Cloud PaaS
Software vendors got to the point that as-a-service is not just hype but new opportunities for their businesses. That’s why currently we increasingly frequently hear about launching Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS). The transition is in active phase but many ISVs are struggling with technical blockers or lack of expertise on their way to the desired outcome. In this presentation, you'll find out how cloud hosting service providers can ease the transformation for software vendors, thus attracting ISVs as potential clients, building value in own services, and ultimately customer retention.
Jelastic provides a turnkey Private, Public and Hybrid cloud platform that brings together unlimited PaaS ease of use and container-based IaaS flexibility.
Kubernetes uses Requests and Limits values to determine where and how to execute pods. This presentation pretends to cover these concepts besides Quality of Services classes. It also points to a demo that uses Virtlet to share CPU workload.
Doesn't matter if you are a SQL Developer, BI Developer, DBA or a combination of those, we all need to have the right tools to get our jobs done. Now that many of the tools for SQL Server are no longer being included with the installer we will all have to do more work to get everything setup and ready. What are BIDS and SSDT? What version(s) of SSDT do I need? Can I install multiple different versions of these on the same workstation? Can I do .NET development and SQL Server development in the same tools? These are just the start of the questions you may be asking when getting a workstation setup. There are lots of other tools out there that you might find useful and tips/tricks in the tools you are already used to. Some time will also be spent on the advantages/disadvantages to using VMs for your development workstation. By the end of this session you will be able to build the best development workstation and be able to keep it up-to-date into the future.
[NetherRealm Studios] Game Studio Perforce ArchitecturePerforce
Get an in-depth look at how NetherRealm Studios, creator of the Mortal Kombat franchise, addresses the challenges that modern game development poses to network architecture and resources.
Make your storage work for you: VAAI and ODX offload up to 30% of disk operat...StarWind Software
Hypervisor CPU and Networking overhead is a common issue for operations like VM provisioning, migration, and cloning. There should be a way to enhance performance by offloading the unnecessary CPU load and shrinking the SAN traffic. ODX and VAAI features do exactly this by offloading routine disk tasks to the storage array so they will be executed more effectively.
Symantec ApplicationHA, Symantec’s high availability solution for VMware virtual environments, provides customers the ability to confidently virtualize their business critical applications. The latest version of Symantec ApplicationHA extends the existing capabilities for disaster recovery with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager integration and provides a dashboard to monitor and manage hundreds of applications within VMware vCenter Server.
Critical SQL Server Databases: Provide HA with SQL Server Failover Clustering...StarWind Software
Highly-Available SQL Server with reliable Disaster Recovery is traditionally hard to achieve but necessary to have. We say it is possible to build a fully redundant SQL Server 2014 cluster with just 2 servers, StarWind Virtual SAN and Cluster Shared Volumes while implementing disaster recovery to several places with minimal RTO and RPO!
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la salud de las comunidades. Además, la salud humana incide directamente sobre gran
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suficientes de agua potable y a un saneamiento adecuado, y en el fomento de hábitos
de higiene. Muchos de estos factores son claves para frenar la transmisión de enfermedades
diarrÏicas y otras infecciones gastrointestinales.
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Un’attività a 360° !
Organizziamo eventi su misura per tutte le taglie.
Come un antica sartoria artigianale, analizziamo le esigenze e concentriamo la nostra creatività verso gli obiettivi del cliente.
Dall’idea …
Briefing e analisi del cliente, presentazione dell’ idea creativa e guide - lines, stesura del budget, creazione delle scenografie, elaborazione del piano regia operativo
… alla forma …
Eventi formativi, eventi sportivi, incentive aziendali, meeting, congressi, convention, lanci di prodotto, gestione segreterie organizzative, ricorrenze aziendali e galà
Landing Pages Primer - reviewing the fundamentals. What are landing pages, why they are important, 3 basic landing page categories (click through, lead generation and personalized), the types of campaigns that yield consistent results and 2 landing page examples critiqued.
Not content to simply describe the Virtual Volume (VVOL) framework, this session instead examines practical use cases: How different configurations and workloads benefit from VVOLs. Learn how Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) couples with VVOLs to provide VM configuration options not previously available. We demonstrate a handful of real-life scenarios, specifically covering how VVOLs benefits oversubscribed systems, disaster recovery preparation and multi-tenant requirements for customers. Specific configuration options and constraints are covered in detail, including how they work with underlying storage.
Make your first CloudStack Cloud successfulTim Mackey
As presented at the 2014 CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Denver (CCCNA14), this deck covers some of the decision points impacting a successful deployment of CloudStack within your organization. Critical elements such as storage and networking are discussed to create a blueprint which seeks to remove some of the learning curve associated with the transition from data center management to cloud management.
Sql Start! 2020 - SQL Server Lift & Shift su AzureMarco Obinu
Slide of the session delivered during SQL Start! 2020, where I illustrate different approaches to determine the best landing zone for you SQL Server workloads.
Video (ITA): https://youtu.be/1hqT_xHs0Qs
A talk at BarCamp Cameroon 2010 by Jeremy Brown (Limbe Labs Solutions) and Patrick Azogni (Ringo) about the use of virtualisation and it's benefits to Ringo.
TechTarget Event - Storage Architectures for the Modern Data Center - Howard ...NetApp
Keynote Presentation: How Storage Function Follows Architecture
Presented by Howard Marks, Founder and Chief Scientist, Deep Storage, LLC
Storage buyers today are faced with a broader variety of choices than ever before. Unfortunately, the architecture of the storage system they select will forever determine how well that system adapts to changes in their data center. While flash does make almost every storage system faster, the system's scalability, flexibility and manageability are determined not by the media but by the system's architecture.
This session will examine how storage system architectures predetermine how systems behave in the real world. We'll see how common storage architectures affect performance, scalability, quality of service, snapshots and vVol support.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
2. Agenda
• Advantages of virtualization
• Licensing considerations
• VM Configuration
• Backups
• Clustering & HA
3. The Way Virtualization Used to Be
• Old drawbacks
– Storage was slow
– Compute was not sufficient
– Too expensive
– Wasn’t supported
4. The Way Virtualization Looks Today
• New strengths
– SQL apps are moving to Virtual
– Virtual Infrastructure is now on-par!
– Fear, Doubt, Uncertainty (FUD) remains
– Advantages over physical
11. VM Configuration
• TEMPLATE is the means to win!
• Collaborate: DBA’s & VM Admins
• Provision new SQL server in an hour
12. VM Configuration
• SQL and OS Memory tweaks
– Lock Pages in Memory
– SQL Max Memory
• VM Memory Reservation
– Critical if using Lock Pages
– Legit use of reservations
13. VM Configuration
• SQL CPU tweaks
– MDOP
– Split TempDB
• VM CPU tweaks
– Single vCPU to start
– Multi-core vs multi-socket vCPU
14. VM Configuration
• VM Networking
– VMXNET3 (or Flexible)
• Storage considerations
– Block Based - FC / FCoE & iSCSI
– NAS - NFS
18. Backup Strategy
• Must choose an approach for Full Recovery Mode!
– Traditional
– Hypervisor based
– Hybrid
• Manage transaction logs
19. Clustering and HA
• Traditional clustering
• vSphere HA = free clustering
• SQL Always-On clustering
–Best of both worlds!
–Up to 8 secondary copies in 2014 including
native Azure integration
24. Take-away’s for the DBA’s
• Use a TEMPLATE!!
• vCenter access
– Even if it’s just read-only
• More <> better
– Grow as you need it
25. Links
• Always-On Failover Demonstration – Kyle Quinby, Varrow
• MS KB 920093 - Tuning options for SQL Server when running in high
performance workloads
• MS SQL 2012 license guide for virtualization
• VMw KB 1037959 - Microsoft Clustering on VMware vSphere: Guidelines
for Supported Configurations
• VMware's SQL Server Best Practices Guide
• When to use Lock Pages in Memory with SQL Server
• How to Enable the Lock Pages in Memory Option
• VMware - 1 Million IOPS on 1 VM
• VMw KB 1010398 - Configuring disks to use VMware Paravirtual SCSI
(PVSCSI) adapters
• VMw KB 1022242 - Types of supported Virtual Disks on ESX/ESXi hosts
