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Big Changes for Big Virtual Machines in VMware vSphere 5

Last Updated June 17, 2013
Brent Ozar
SQL Server, Virtualization
13 Comments
Even if your SQL Server is the only guest on a host, it still might not be as fast as bare metal. One of the reasons is NUMA, which stands for Not Ur Momma’s Architecture.  Okay, no, smart reader, you caught me – it actually stands for Non-Uniform Memory Access.  In your momma’s architecture (Symmetric…
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