Last week our topic on the VMware Communities Roundtable podcast was SQL Server and best practices for running it on your virtual infrastructure. This was a good one. Our guest was Hemant Gaidhani, author of this recent white paper on Microsoft SQL Server and VMware Virtual Infrastructure. At the risk of oversimplifying, Hemant's messages were; follow
Microsoft's best practice guidelines for SQL Server and you probably
won't ever run into issues. If you do, take a look at your storage
design. As always, listen via the widget on the right, the mp3, or via iTunes.
Our next podcast topic is All Things Mobile, including vCenter Mobile Access and the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform. Our guest is Srinivas Krishnamurti. Join us this Wednesday, April 8, at noon PDT / 3pm EDT / 7pm GMT. Podcast information.
Links discussed on this podcast:
- Virtualizing SQL Server (resource center with white papers and customer stories on vmware.com)
- Microsoft SQL Server and VMware Virtual Infrastructure (white paper from Hemant Gaidhani)
- SQL Server Performance Problems Not Due To VMware (blog post from Scott Drummonds)
- Best Practices for SQL Server (community doc from Scott Drummonds)
- Benchmarking Microsoft SQL Server Using VMware ESX Server 3.5 (white paper)
- SQL Server – Best Practices (resource center on microsoft.com)
- ESXTOP and disk latency (section 4.2.2)
- Microsoft Unlocks SQL Server 2005 license for virtualization (blog post virtualization.info) and the press release from Microsoft
- Mirroring and Clustering ((from Database Mirroring and Failover Clustering, MSDN))
- Combining Log Shipping and Database Mirroring. (from Database Mirroring and Failover Clustering, MSDN)
- Scalable Storage Performance (VMware white paper)
