by David | Jul 7, 2023 | Best Practices, Business, Cloud, Performance, Professional Development, SQL Server, Storage, Tech Video, Technology, Virtualization
My SQL Server on VMware Accelerator boot camp video series is now live on Youtube! There’s no strings attached and no price of entry, so now there’s no reason why you can’t join me in this adventure to learn more about how to performance and...
by David | May 18, 2022 | Best Practices, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
We’ve been tracking a weird state with SQL Server virtual machines on VMware and possible warnings on database corruption while VM backups are running, largely centered around (but not isolated to) the tempdb database. TLDR: We’ve now got a VMware KB...
by David | Feb 23, 2021 | Best Practices, Performance, Storage, Technology, Virtualization
After doing some digging today with a Client, we hit a roadblock on something that I need to share with using the NVMe virtual disk controller on the VMware ESXi 6.5 and above platform. If you’re using this vDisk controller, you cannot expand or add virtual...
by David | Feb 1, 2018 | SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization
I recently had a great question on some of the differences in virtual machine disk presentation from one of our amazing clients, and I thought I’d share the answer here because it’s a common question that I receive. Some hypervisors (including some...
by David | Nov 29, 2016 | Best Practices, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
VMware’s latest release of the vSphere virtualization suite, version 6.5, changes how they handle vNUMA presentation to a virtual machine, and there’s a high likelihood that it will break your virtualized SQL Server vNUMA configuration and lead to...
by David | Apr 8, 2016 | Best Practices, Performance, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
A number of you sent me some excellent questions about this topic, and my favorite asked me for the query that you can use to get this information DIRECTLY from the VMware vCenter database. SO… here you go! Just plug in your VM name (which might differ from your...
