Memory overhead recommended for benchmarking SQL server 2005 on vSphere
For a ‘direct’ physical to VM comparison of SQL server 2005, would anyone recommend giving the VM extra (say, 1.5GB) RAM to compensate for any overhead the OS needs? So a direct comparison would then be 1vCPU, 2.5GB RAM VM & SQL set to use 1GB RAM) vs. SQL on physical host set to use [...]

Answer Question   |  July 31, 2009  8:09 PM
Physical hosts, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server memory, Virtual Machines, vSphere