Azure Virtual Machine Boot Diagnostics

If you have ever rebooted a virtual machine and feel like you are in the dark to it’s current state, you aren’t alone.  Thankfully, Azure provides a number of tools to aid in your experience in the cloud when it comes to “reboot darkness”.  Boot diagnostics allows you to see the state of your virtual […]

Modern Hardware with 64 CPUs

In today’s world, more often then not you might run into systems that have large beefy hardware.  Hundreds of gigabytes of memory, ultra fast solid state disks and many CPUs to push your workloads.  These types of systems are no longer unicorns in the wild but are becoming more and more prevalent.  Further more, in […]

Microsoft Update Catalog

In today’s world of database administrations, there are a plethora of tools and resources that can be available to utilize to help solve problems, such as performance tuning, configuration, and many others.  Some are third party tools, some are free, and some are provided by the vendor themselves. Regardless of which tool or resource you […]

Finding Cluster Log Errors

Sometimes you know that a problem occurred, but the tools are not giving you the right information.  If you ever look at the Cluster Failover Manager for a Windows Cluster, sometimes that can happen.  The user interface won’t show you any errors, but you KNOW there was an issue.  This is when knowing how to […]