Infrastructure Articles

Architecting MS SQL Server on VMware vSphere 8.0 released

I'm thrilled to announce that the "Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere" 8.0 best practices guide has been released! I'm pleased to have been able to contribute to this document. This document covers some very positive and significant changes VMware has...
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VMware & SQL Server 823-824 alerts

We've been tracking a weird state with SQL Server virtual machines on VMware and possible warnings on database corruption while VM backups are running, largely centered around (but not isolated to) the tempdb database. TLDR: We've now got a VMware KB article on this...
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Storage Field Day 23 – SIOS

I am thrilled to have been a part of this year's Storage Field Day 23 event, held by Gestalt IT during the first week of March. This event is a series of vendor-led technical presentations where technologists like myself can ask hard questions so that we can better...
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Storage Field Day 23 – HammerSpace

I am thrilled to have been a part of this year's Storage Field Day 23 event, held by Gestalt IT during the first week of March. This event is a series of vendor-led technical presentations where technologists like myself can ask hard questions so that we can better...
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