Today I want to talk about a very interesting topic in VMware vSphere: the Cores per Socket option, and how you should configure it for your SQL Server based Virtual Machine. The VMware Recommendation The recommendation from VMware is that you set the Cores per Socket option to 1. This means that you are getting …
I’m a big believer in the SDDC (Software Defined Data Center), especially on the VMware platform. VMware provides you for a SDDC the following products/offerings: VMware ESXi Hypervisor for CPU and Memory Virtualization VMware vSAN for Storage Virtualization VMware NSX-T for Network Virtualization As you already know from my previous blog postings, I’m also a …
As you might know from my Home Lab setup, I’m a big believer and fan of VMware vSAN, which is a Software-Defined Storage solution. Therefore I want to show you in today’s blog posting a step-by-step guide how you can create a vSAN based vSphere Cluster. For a basic understanding about the inner workings of …
Last week VMware has released a new whitepaper with the very promising title “Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere”. If you have a virtualized SQL Server running on top of VMware, this whitepaper is a MUST READ for you!!! I’ve read through the whitepaper over the last few days, and the content seems quite …
New Whitepaper: Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere + read more
A few months ago I have prepared the physical hardware my VMware vSphere based Home Lab for the migration from 6.5 to 6.7. And last Thursday it was finally the big day: I’ve done the migration from vSphere 6.5 to 6.7. In this blog posting I want to describe the necessary steps, and in which …
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