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SQL Server on VMware Accelerator now free!
My SQL Server on VMware Accelerator boot camp video series is now live on Youtube! There’s no strings attached and no price of entry, so now there’s no reason why you can’t join me in this adventure...
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An Exit Becomes the Next Entrance
If you live life in the manner that I do, life is all about change and self-improvement. To me, life in technology means constantly keeping up with the exceptionally rapid evolution of the IT industry....
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Storage Benchmarking with DiskSpd
As I mentioned in my storage benchmarking post, storage performance is one of the critical infrastructure components underneath a mission-critical SQL Server. My defacto storage benchmarking utility...
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Automating Storage Benchmarking with DiskSpd and PowerShell
My recent post on using the new DiskSpd utility to help you benchmark your storage is a great primer on how to use DiskSpd. But… what if you want to run multiple tests? For example, what if you want...
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Multiple disk controllers in VMs can mean improved performance
I recently had a great question on some of the differences in virtual machine disk presentation from one of our amazing clients, and I thought I’d share the answer here because it’s a common question...
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Cannot expand VMDKs with NVMe storage controller on VMware without a reboot
After doing some digging today with a Client, we hit a roadblock on something that I need to share with using the NVMe virtual disk controller on the VMware ESXi 6.5 and above platform. If you’re...
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Scale your SQL Server MDF database data files
Do you have quite large MDF files on your database? By large, I mean hundreds of gigabytes (or larger). Have you ever noticed that your SQL Server disk stall metrics for these data files are much...
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SQL Server on Linux Storage Secrets on Microsoft Channel 9
I’m thrilled to have recently released a video with Microsoft’s Data Exposed on Channel 9 where I discuss setting up Linux storage appropriate for on-demand disk expansion for your production SQL...
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IT and data professionals, I implore you – know thy platform. All of it. Not just the layer your job is tasked with. Modern public cloud (or any infrastructure for that matter) platforms means there’s...
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