These two technologies can make a very big – and very bad – difference in how your SQL Server performs. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get the real, honest lowdown from a virtualization administrator, a SAN administrator, and a DBA? Wouldn’t it be even better if one person had done all three, and could give you the pros and cons of each point of view? That person is me, Brent Ozar, a Microsoft Certified Master who’s been there and done that.
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Watch a Video of This Presentation – from the SQLbits conference in the UK. No signup required, and you can even download copies of it. (I just love SQLbits.)
SAN Best Practices – with pointers to SAN documentation from vendors.
Virtualization Best Practices – including why you should (or shouldn’t) virtualize SQL Server.
Hi BrentO, nice presentation and thank you for sharing your experience …!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I am on your mailing lists, on one of your mails you mentioned a new accounting package you are using. Can you let me know the package name as a self-employed database consultant I would like to stream-line my finances and would consider using such packages? I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for been there for us.
Superb presentation @SQL Saturday Vancouver.
Chand – thanks!
[...] Just when I thought it wasn’t possible to make an already amazing conference better. Brent comes along with this fantastic presentation on Virtualization and SAN basics for the SQL Server DBA. You can watch an older version he did for SQL Bits here. [...]