Steps for a Successful Data Migration Session at Microsoft Ignite
I hope you’re all enjoying the latest rev of the Microsoft Ignite conference as much as I am. I was going through the content catalog for this year’s conference and noticed while they didn’t have as many data platform sessions as I hoped for this time, one good...Cannot expand VMDKs with NVMe storage controller on VMware without a reboot
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...How to Prep a SQL Server Availability Group for VM-Level DR Replication
If you have a SQL Server Availability Group (AG) and the VMs are being replicated to a disaster recovery site (cloud or on-prem), chances are the networking topology is not the same at the second site. These replication technologies can include VM replication, SAN LUN...
PASS Summit 2020 Precon – Scripts and Links
An attendee at my PASS Summit precon on virtualized SQL Server performance tuning on Monday asked a great question. “Do you have a list of the tools and scripts that you’re using in this precon?” Now I do! This list is an abbreviated list of the...
How to Import Perfmon Data into a SQL Server for Analysis
If you followed the last video, I showed you how to set up windows perfmon for ongoing performance metric collection on all of your critical SQL Server machines. However, having this raw data in a portable format doesn’t mean you have an easy means to access...
