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Did you know that you can deploy native VMWare virtual machines into Azure? Yeah, I didn’t either until earlier this month. Expanding VMWare If you are running VMware current in your on-premises, this solution would allow you to create a VMware cluster using dedicated Azure resources. These resources are based […]
In this post, I discuss about not forgetting to allow for additional head room when planning out new hardware, especially for HA/DR needs.
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 […]
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 […]
What really is NUMA and why do we as database administrators care? NUMA stands for “Non-uniform Memory Access” and allows for increased CPU & memory performance. This is because a memory bank is physically adjacent to a CPU socket on the motherboard of the server. Each combination of memory and […]