July 13, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Diskpart,
Virtualization,
Windows 2008When using VMs and Windows 2008 you have the ability to easily grow the C drive on your servers. This makes it much easier to assign only the space needed to the C drive of your servers saving you a ton of space.
However I recently had a few machines say that the disk was extanded in Computer...
June 25, 2009 9:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL,
VMwareThere is a VMware setting which you can set which should give you a small but noticeable performance improvement in SQL Server performance when that SQL Server is running within a VMware Virtual Machine.
June 22, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Code Camp,
Service Broker,
SoCal Code Camp,
VirtualizationSoCal Code Camp is coming up in a couple of weeks now on June 27th and 28th. I'm presenting 3 sessions solo, and I'm one of a few people doing an IT Pro Pannel to allow Developers to grill some IT Pros to see why we do things the way we...
June 4, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Clustering,
Lesson Learned,
VMware,
Windows 2008A lesson that I learned while setting up our new data center for work, is to be careful when setting up your clustered servers.
Most of our servers are VMs, including a Windows 2008 Cluster (yeah I know not supported, I'm a rebel damn it and I want a Windows 2008 cluster installed under VMware...
May 25, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Lock Pages,
SQL,
VMwareWith the recent release of the ability for the Lock Pages in Memory setting to be used on SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Standard Edition I see more and more people shooting them selves in the foot with this setting when running under VMware. I see this as becoming more of an issue now that this switch...
May 20, 2009 12:16 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC World,
EMC World 2009,
Storage Vmotion,
VMwareToday was day 2 of EMC World 2009. There were some great sessions today. I'm focused on two tracks this year, VMware and the CLARiiON product as we have just deployed both of these in our
April 13, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Data Center Build,
EMC,
SQL Server,
VMwareFor those of you who know me, or have heard me talk at a Code Camp in the last year, you've heard me talk about a data center migration that I want to do from Rackspace in Texas to our own equipment in the LA area. Well that day has finely come.
Our current environment has served us well, but...
April 6, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Amazon DB,
Azure,
Cloud ComputingI haven't made a decision on putting databases in the cloud. I think Amazon and now Microsoft have the write idea for cloud databases. Give people lots of options, use named value pars (AmazonDB or the old school Azure database) when it makes sence and use full blown RDBMS when it makes...
January 2, 2009 8:56 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Article,
Virtualization
It's been a while since I've posted about new articles that I've published. Over the next few weeks I'm going to see if I can't remedy that, and get all caught up.
Over on
SearchSQLServer.com I posted an article entitled...
