Today I want to announce my SQLpassion Online Training for June 2018. On June 21, 2018 I’m running a one-day long webinar about SQL Server Troubleshooting with Extended Events. And because of the huge success of my brand new training Design, Deploy, and Optimize SQL Server on VMware, I will ...

A few days ago I have replaced in my vSAN enabled vSphere Cluster an ESXi Host in preparation for the upcoming migration to vSphere 6.7. As you know from my Home Lab deployment, my vSAN Compute Cluster consists of 3 HP Proliant Hosts: esx1.sqlpassion.com: HP DL380 G8 with Intel Xeon ...

As you might know from my VMware vSAN powered Home Lab setup, I use an Intel Optane 900P Disk for the Caching Tier, and a Samsung 850 PRO 1 TB SSD Disk for the Capacity Tier. With just 3 ESXi hosts in my deployment, this gives me around 3 TB ...

If you follow me on Twitter, or if you have read my last blog posting about my serious VMware Home Lab deployment, you might know that I really love and work with VMware vSAN. But what is VMware vSAN exactly, and can you use it to run SQL Server workloads ...

As you might know, I have already a quite powerful mobile Home Data Center that I have built in November 2016. I’m primarily using that Lab environment to showcase SQL Server environments through my various SQL Server workshops that I offer. But over the last year I was also more ...