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 8, 2021 | Cloud, SQL Server, Technology
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...
by David | Oct 21, 2020 | Performance, SQL Server, Tech Video, Technology
I just released a new training video (one of many to be released in the upcoming months) showing you how to set up Windows Perfmon for ongoing 24×7 collection. Recording ongoing performance information is vital to have a running history of the system state in...
by David | Jun 23, 2020 | Technology, Virtualization
The Register is reporting that future versions of Windows Server OS is going to require the TPM 2.0 chip and Secure boot enabled by default. Secure boot is quite helpful to validate that servers boot into trusted environments. It sounds basic and straightforward, but...
by David | May 22, 2020 | Best Practices, Business, Performance, SQL Server, Technology
People want to make things faster. It’s in our nature as IT professionals. What are you tuning for? I’ve been asking that a lot later. I have to sit back and ask some very basic questions to try to see where people’s IT-related pain is at. What is...
by David | Mar 19, 2020 | Cloud, SQL Server, Technology
I’ve talked for months now about the ability to run SQL Server on the Linux platform. For those of you interested in exploring the benefits of this platform, you’re in luck! Microsoft has pre-built images ready to go on the Azure cloud, running SQL Server...