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File locations for Full Text Catalogs using SQL Server 2005 on VMware
I have an issue with one of our development SQL Server Servers. We have databases that use full text search catalogs. Just some background info, our servers are configured to use separate drives for ...
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Bulk insert into SQL Server from VMWare guest using distributed switch
This is mostly likely not a SQL server issue but the setup seems to only be affecting BULK INSERTS to SQL Servers.
We have recently moved VM Hardware and all the guests that were moved had their ...
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SQL Server Buffer Pool Utilization under VMWare
I recently migrated a physical SQL Server box (2012) over to ESX (5.1) simply for ease of administration. It is and will be the only guest on the server. As expected there was a marginal performance ...
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Do my metrics justify changing the MAXDOP settings?
I recently took over a dual instance virtualized SQL Server with 8 x vCPUs and 8 x physical cores. This is the only VM on the host.
MAXDOP is at the default setting.
The server has 100 high ...
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SQL Server 2012 Licensing on a VMware Infrastructure
I am looking to license SQL Server 2012 Standard on my VMware Vsphere server farm. I currently have 3 hosts in the farm with the following spec:
2x 6core Xeon CPU (12 cores total)
128GB RAM
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Pros and Cons of virtualisation technology for database-server and datastorage
Yesterday we had a chat about performance and restorability and I realized how many good things a virtualisation environment can bring to me - but as I'm a little sceptic concerning performance I'm ...
