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SQL P2V: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs

Say we have a physical database server sitting over there in the rack.  For the sake of discussion, let’s pretend it’s a slightly older model, a HP DL380 G2 with a couple of P3 CPUs, 4gb of ram, and six local 36gb drives.  The storage is broken up into a mirrored pair of drives for [...]

SQL Server support on virtual servers

The Microsoft knowledge base article on SQL Server virtualization support just got an update.  Here’s the interesting part:
“Versions of SQL Server after SQL Server 2005 will incorporate full support for running on a supported guest operating system that is installed on a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machine.”
That means SQL Server 2008 will be fully [...]