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Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware®: Doing IT Right
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Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware®: Doing IT Right

by Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak, Michael Webster
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
13h 12m
English
VMware Press
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Chapter 3. Architecting for Performance: The Right Hypervisor

In this chapter, we discuss what a hypervisor is and the different types of virtualization hypervisors on the market. We also discuss why some hypervisors run applications true to the native or physical stack whereas other hypervisors do not.

This is especially important to understand given that a SQL Server database is one of the most complex applications you may ever virtualize. When a hypervisor does not run true to the physical stack, it is possible to encounter bugs that would not exist in the physical world, thus introducing an additional level of complexity and risk that you need to be aware of.

We look at the different generations of VMware vSphere hypervisor in this chapter. ...

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