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Sometimes what you have just isn’t enough to get the job done. In certain workloads, having additional CPU might be beneficial for the immediate workload, especially when discussing SQL Server. In the old days, dynamcially adding more CPU horsepower wasn’t an option unless you magically had another physical server with […]
In today’s modern world, virtualization is often used to help mitigate cost as well as to provide flexibility in scaling for performance workloads. It’s very easy to scale a virtual machine with a few mouse clicks and a brief outage while it reboots. If you are running VMWare on-premises, this […]
Synology has a wide range of capabilities but sometimes it still falls short. In a previous post, I mentioned moving existing virtual machines to my Synology DS920+. The movement of the virtual machines required configuring the virtual machine locally on my laptop and then subsequently moving the “bundle” to the […]
Update: This post was originally published on March 8th, 2019 and a lot of things have changed over the last 2-3 years. Lots of things. However, ironically, I’m headed off to SQL Bits again for their 2022 Conference and thought it’d be a good time to update this list of […]
In hindsight, I should have done this differently. In a previous post I discussed how I carved up 18TB of storage into various storage pools. Now that I have the two storage pools, I need to create volumes on top of those pools so that I can start to store […]
A look at the sessions I’ll be presenting at SQL Bits 2022 in London this year. Excited to return to a great conference and hope to see you there!
One of the reasons that I enjoy having a Synology DS920+ around is that that I can use it to experiment with virtualization. In this experiment, I’m going to move a virtual machine that I configured through VMWare’s Fusion which is running on my Mac laptop. This is just a […]