SQL Server Archives - Virtualize Applications

Licensing Microsoft SQL Server in a VMware Cloud on AWS Environment

Deji posted June 8th, 2018

…. From Part I As enterprise IT teams, leadership and business owners continuously drive towards service improvements, they invariably look at the public cloud infrastructure as a possible target for their mission critical applications. Whereas virtualization is now generally accepted as the default platform for enterprise-grade applications, businesses looking to leverage the public cloud for Read more...

Updated – Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere Availability and Recovery Options

Niran Even-Chen posted May 16th, 2016

Choosing the right availability configuration for your SQL Server on vSphere can be a bit confusing as there are more than a few options to choose from, questions such as: Should I use vSphere HA if i’m using AlwaysOn? What are the implications of running different availability configurations on vSphere, and what are the best Read more...

Demo – Dynamically Enforcing Security on a Hot Cloned SQL Server with VMware NSX

Niran Even-Chen posted April 13th, 2016

VMware NSX is a software defined solution that brings the power of virtualization to network and security. There are many great papers about NSX in general: for example here & here and many others, the purpose of this demo is not to dive into everything that NSX does, Instead I have focused on one capability in particular and that is the intelligent grouping of NSX Service Read more...

Updated: Microsoft SQL Server on vSphere Best Practices Guide

Niran Even-Chen posted March 14th, 2016

Microsoft SQL server is the most virtualized enterprise mission critical application today. In recent years it has become a mainstream effort among VMware customers to virtualize critical databases to allow better agility and scale while increasing availability and operational efficiency. This guide, now named “Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere – Best Practices Guide” to reflect its focus on Read more...

Critical Factors to consider when virtualizing Business Critical Applications: (Part 1 of 2)

Mohan Potheri posted February 13th, 2014

Over the past few years, there has been significant acceleration in adoption of the VMware platform for virtualization of business critical applications. When vSphere 5 was introduced with its initial support for up to 32 vCPU many of the vertical scalability concerns that existed earlier were addressed. This has been increased to 64 processors with Read more...