Hosting mission-critical higly available Microsoft SQL Server (further referenced as SQL Server) workloads on VMware vSphere platform became mainstream during the last years. With the introduction of VMware Cloud on AWS enterprises now have an option to extend the vSphere hosting platform beyond on-premises datacenters into public cloud while maintaining the same toolset, user experience Read more...
Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most widely deployed database platforms in the world, with many organizations having dozens or even hundreds of instances deployed in their environments. In addition, SQL Server is on the top of virtualized applications on the VMware vSphere platform. In continuous effort to facilitate the virtualized deployments of SQL Read more...
We’re continuing our blog series dedicated to the great persistent memory technology. In the Part I we discussed the way of configuring a PMem device on an ESXi host. In this part we will cover how an instance of Microsoft SQL Server (further referenced as SQL Server) can consume virtual NVDIMM device in vPMem (Direct-access Read more...
This blog was authored by Sudhir Balasubramanian,Vas Mitra and Oleg Ulyanov. With this post we are starting a blog series dedicated to the Persistent Memory (PMem) feature introduced in vSphere 6.7. We will cover initial configuration of the PMem in vSphere and the way how different virtualized business critical applications (like SQL Server, Oracle, SAP) Read more...
VMworld 2018 US Virtualizing Applications Track Pre-Conference Customer Boot Camps This August, the VMware flagship conference VMworld 2018 will again take place in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay. A highlight of the event this year will be the pre-conference Virtualizing Applications customer boot camps which will take place on Sunday August 26th. This is Read more...
