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 ...

In one of my last blog postings I have shown you how I run SQL Server natively on my Mac. In today’s blog posting I want to continue with that approach, and I want to show you how you can create a custom SQL Server Docker Image, and how you ...

As we all know the Black Friday approaches quite fast, and therefore I also want to offer you a great deal from my side. Today and tomorrow I will offer you my available Online Trainings with a discounted price: Design, Deploy, and Optimize SQL Server on VMware SQL Server Query Tuning ...

Years ago when I switched from Windows to Mac, people have told me regularily that I’m crazy. How can I be that stupid to work on MacOS when I’m dependent on SQL Server? In my case it wasn’t that terrible, because my main work is about content creation (writing blog ...

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 ...