This is just a quick reminder to encourage you to attend my next round of all-day precon training session at the upcoming SQL Saturday in Minnesota on Friday, October 6 called ‘The Complete Primer to SQL Server Infrastructure and Cloud‘. The focus of the course is to help those new to the enterprise server infrastructure concepts become familiar with the concept…
Category: Infrastructure
VMworld EMEA SQL Server Sessions
This trip to Barcelona for the next VMworld EMEA conference next week will be my second trip to this conference in two years. I’m ecstatic to get there and start talking SQL Server content with folks! I’m presenting on SQL Server performance, scalability, and monitoring in three sessions at this conference. Tuesday 11am – Monster…
Load Testing Results Might Not Be What You Think
Bottlenecks in your testing tools, infrastructure, or methodology might just hurt your load test results, and the results can skew your metrics. For example… A few weeks ago we were running an iperf load test to see what improvements (if any) could be made to the configuration of a Windows Server networking stack. Setting up iperf…
Summon Blue Screens of Death (for testing purposes only, of course)
Today I had a need to manually trigger and sustain a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) inside a Windows Server VM. The goal was to be able to trigger a BSOD so that I could work on the detection of powered on but failed VMs inside a server environment. All major hypervisors have this feature…