by David | Jul 5, 2017 | Performance, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
If you are actively managing VMware environments with workloads that have high performance needs (such as all of the virtualized SQL Servers that we work on), this new book called VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive, written by Frank Denneman and Niels...
by David | Dec 30, 2013 | Cloud, Performance, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
Jonathan Kehayias (b | t ) posted a fantastic write up today on VMware’s vNUMA interactions when the operating system feature ‘CPU hot plug’ is enabled over at SQLPerformance.com. I’ve been mulling around ideas for a similar post but he...
by David | Dec 2, 2013 | Best Practices, Performance, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
A wonderful gentleman who attended my SQL PASS Summit session this year recently emailed me and asked me a great question about optimal setup for SQL Server virtual machine vCPU and vNUMA configurations. I thought about the question and realized that while the session...