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…
Category: vSphere
New Whitepaper – Capture Production Error States
System administrators of the world, if a VM experiences a problem that takes down business-critical application, your job is to minimize the impact to the business. You are caught in a difficult decision. Do you repair the VM as quickly as possible, but possibly lose traces of what went wrong. In doing so, that loss of…
Keep VMware snapshot growth from wrecking your day
VM snapshots are one of the best virtualization features ever. But…have you ever had a VMware vSphere or Hyper-V snapshot grow out of control and fill the datastore the VM resides on? You know what happens… even the best VM admins out there seem to get burned once when they create a snapshot for some…
VMware vSphere 6.5 breaks your SQL Server vNUMA settings
VMware’s latest release of the vSphere virtualization suite, version 6.5, changes how they handle vNUMA presentation to a virtual machine, and there’s a high likelihood that it will break your virtualized SQL Server vNUMA configuration and lead to unexpected changes in behavior. It might even slow down your SQL Servers. Here’s what you need to…
Create a portable virtual machine with OVF or OVA
Today a great client asked me how to export a VM to an OVF or OVA so he could transport the VM to another environment. That’s a great question! It had been a while since I have done this so I researched the best way on vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 to perform this. Things have…