by David | Apr 1, 2021 | Best Practices, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
I just found out that VMware has updated their in-guest time synchronization with the 7.0 Update 1 release. Previously, we had to manually disable some of the advanced time synchronization ‘features’ that didn’t adhere to the front-end GUI option...
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 2, 2021 | Announcements, Best Practices, Business, Events, Performance, Professional Development, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization
I am thrilled to announce the launch of a new education initiative called SQLibrium. For years, I’ve traveled the world educating technical audiences on deep-dive topics around how data and infrastructure / cloud technologies converge. With the pandemic, the...
by David | Nov 17, 2020 | Cloud, Events, Performance, Professional Development, SQL Server, User Groups, Virtualization
Whether you caught a single session, took a pre-con, or filled your schedule last week with multiple sessions, l’m going to review last week’s PASS Virtual Summit 2020 conference! The week of November 9th to 13th held the annual PASS Summit conference this year....
by David | Nov 11, 2020 | Best Practices, Cloud, Events, Professional Development, SQL Server, Storage, Technology, Virtualization
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...
by David | Oct 2, 2020 | Cloud, Events, Performance, SQL Server, Virtualization
If you were fortunate enough to catch our VMworld 2020 conference session on architecting SQL Server performance for hybrid cloud architectures, you’ll notice that there were no opportunities for a questions and answers session with the speakers. This omission...
