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Deciding if Virtualization is a good choice for your SQL Server

Deciding if Virtualization is a good choice for your SQL Server. Denny Cherry Manager of Information Systems mrdenny@mrdenny.com MVP, MCSA, MCDBA, MCTS, MCITP. Denny Cherry. Manager of Information Systems at Awareness Technologies Microsoft MVP 12 Microsoft Certifications on SQL Server.

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Deciding if Virtualization is a good choice for your SQL Server

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  1. Deciding if Virtualization is a good choice for your SQL Server Denny Cherry Manager of Information Systems mrdenny@mrdenny.com MVP, MCSA, MCDBA, MCTS, MCITP

  2. Denny Cherry • Manager of Information Systems at Awareness Technologies • Microsoft MVP • 12 Microsoft Certifications on SQL Server

  3. What is Virtualization • VMware • ESX 1-3.5 • vSphere 4.0 – 4.1 • VMware announced 4.1 will be the last version with a host console 7/30/2010 • vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 4.1+ • Hyper-V • V1 and v2

  4. Why Should I? ? • Hardware Costs • Instant Server Deployment • Free Server Redundancy • Easy System Upgrades

  5. Why Shouldn’t I? ? • Shared CPU • Shared Memory • Slow Disk Access times

  6. Deciding Factors ! • Disk IO • IO Per Seconds • CPU Load • CPU Usage • Core Counts • Processor Queuing • Memory Usage

  7. Virtualization Limits @ • vCPUs must be on the same physical socket • vMotion or Instant Failover requires hosts have like CPUs • Hyper-V doesn’t include memory de-duplication

  8. Management Tools & • VMware requires vCenter to manage a cluster • Hyper-V requires System Center Operations Manager

  9. @ SQL Saturday #28 Baton Rouge Session Title Denny Cherry itke.techtarget.com/sql-server twitter.com/mrdenny speakerrate.com/mrdenny

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