I’m doing a webcast with David Swanson about SQL Server consolidation on Thursday, May 15th at 8am PST. You can learn more about it and register online, or you can just read the description of “SQL Server expert Brent Ozar” and chuckle like I do. I still have a hard time with the word “expert” - I prefer the term “guy who learned a whole lot the hard way.”
It will definitely be an interesting webcast. At Southern Wine, we went through a few rounds of database server consolidation, and we had our successes and failures. I learned a lot, and I think there’s a lot we can talk about to make it easier for other DBAs.
I like to tell database administrators that even if they don’t start consolidating their database servers, they’re going to get consolidated by somebody else. Your Windows admins are drooling at the thought of reducing server headcount with Windows 2008 Hyper-V and VMware. Microsoft and VMware distribute plenty of marketing collateral that say it’s perfectly okay to virtualize SQL Servers. If you disagree, then you need to start doing your own consolidation to head the Wintel admins off, and this webcast will help give you the tools you need to do a successful consolidation.
If you’ve got consolidation questions, feel free to drop me a line too, and we’ll try to answer them during the webcast. See you there!
