VMware vCenter Performance Tuning
As hopefully everyone that is using VMware’s vSphere in either data center knows VMware’s vCenter runs off of a Microsoft SQL Server database (by default). Now as good as they guys at VMware are at building a virtualization platform there database leave a little to be desired. I’ve identified a couple of indexes which when […]
Time to vote for vmworld 2012 sessions
For those that are interested in the VMware product line and the VMworld conference, it is time to begin the community voting for sessions that will be given at VM World 2012 in both San Francisco, CA USA and Barcelona, Spain. You’ll need to register in order to vote, so create an account and get […]
Know your app when migrating your data
One of the projects that I’m working on at the moment is moving a data center from being hosted in Dallas Texas up to New Jersey so that it’s closer to the companies corporate office in New York City. As a part of this data center migration the Microsoft SQL Server databases must be moved […]
Figuring out how log shipping is doing
A lot of the time when doing data center migrations or system migrations I end up using Transaction Log Shipping to get the data from one SQL Server to another. I do this for a few reasons. It’s reliable. It’s easy to do (I’ve got plenty of scripts sitting around to use) I can easily […]