Chapter 10. How to Baseline Your Physical SQL Server System
“Check it before you wreck it.”
—Jeff Szastak
“The bitterness of poor performance lasts long after the sweetness of a cheap price is forgotten.”
—Unknown
The title of this book is Virtualizing SQL Server on VMware: Doing IT Right. An essential part of “doing it right” is having a good understanding of the workload characteristics and configuration of the existing physical source systems that are to be virtualized. Remember that unlike in a physical environment, where it’s common practice to oversize the server, in a virtualized infrastructure it’s important you “right-size” the VM that houses your SQL Server database. You can always hot-plug a vCPU and hot-add memory if more is needed. ...
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