Comments on: Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs Webcast Today

By: Training day in Cologne « William Durkin's Blog

Training day in Cologne « William Durkin's Blog — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:13:22 +0000

[...] followed by “Top 10 Developer Mistakes that Won’t Scale” and finished off with “Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs”. The first two were presentations that I had seen on webcasts, where the third was totally new to [...]

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:19:45 +0000

Unfortunately this is beyond the scope of something I can answer in a blog comment. You can email me at brento@brentozar.com and we can talk about a consulting engagement if you’re interested though.

By: Lavanya

Lavanya — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:58:01 +0000

Hi
We are working on a client ESX server (vsphere 4.0)installed with SQL SERVER 2005 Ent Ed.on one of its clusters(3 clusters in HA ) .Its a MOSS 2007 db server with close to 40 content db’s and the max sizing upto 70 gb.The SQL OS(64 bit) has 4 vcpu’s,32gb ram.SQL min and max setting are 1 gb and 12 gb.VM reservation is 16gb.Lock pages in memory is enabled and large pages support is also enabled.As I read from the errorlog the sql is using dynamic allocation of memory on boot.SQL is the only app installed on the guest OS .What i would like to know is ,how much more can the max memory setting be increased on the sql server without paging file to disk .During peak periods/daily maintenance hours the perfmon counters indicate more memory could be added (there are other problems with disk latency also).Can it be made in sync with the VM ‘s reservation of 16gb .Please advice.

By: Chris Richards

Chris Richards — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:10:04 +0000

Sweetness!