Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware®: Doing IT Right
by Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak, Michael Webster
Foreword
About 10 years ago, I started a new job. The company I started working for had a couple hundred physical servers at the time. When several new internal software development projects started, we needed to expand quickly and added dozens of new physical servers. Pretty soon we started hitting all the traditional datacenter problems, such as lack of floor space, high power consumption, and cooling constraints. We had to solve our problems, and during our search for a solution we were introduced to a new product called VMware ESX and Virtual Center. It didn’t take long for us to see the potential and to start virtualizing a large portion of our estate.
During this exercise, we started receiving a lot of positive feedback on the performance ...
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