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 […]
Hot Adding CPU to SQL Server
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 […]
Gathering VMWare Metrics
Anytime that you a large environment, gathering metrics in any form can be daunting and cumbersome. Using scripting languages can usually greatly improve the efficiency of this process as well as be more accurate. Whether it’s VMWare, SQL Server, or some other platform, it would behoove you to see what […]