VM firmware matters for Windows Secure Boot

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...

SQL Server and VMware Resource Pools

Resource pools are used to hierarchically partition available CPU and memory resources, and are available for use at the VMware host cluster layer. To better prioritize certain VMs over others, especially in a highly concurrent VM farm, I recommend leveraging three...