This August, the VMware flagship conference VMworld 2019 will again take place in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. A highlight of the event this year will be the Virtualizing Applications customer workshops. This is the 4th consecutive year that this elite program has been offered as an extended learning opportunity for Read more...
There’s a lot of conflicting materials on the Internet describing how to configure a Windows failover cluster (WSFC) on the vSphere platform. In this blog post you will learn about VMware supported and recommended configuration options when implementing a WSFC (previously known as Microsoft Service Cluster Service, or MSCS) with disk resources shared across nodes Read more...
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...
