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  • Blog Post: Dell and Hyper-V for the smaller business

    Over the last month I have been on tour with Dell showing what Hyper-V can do for small/medium businesses, and later this week I’ll be with them in Falmouth. The argument they put forward for Hyper-V is really simple: You want use a new server for virtualisation, and now that moderns servers...
    on17 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: Event: IT Camp Leeds Feb 28th

    Back in December Simon and I invited a few friends along to help us beta test a different kind of event, an IT Camp .  The idea is simply to do smaller, more interactive events where discussions and questions are encouraged.  The presenters, (Simon and I) being a bit more in the background...
    on1 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: Virtual machine density in your data centre

    I can only run 11 server based  Virtual machines on my laptop, but all bar three of them are running SQL Server: 3 x VMs running SQL Server 2012 beta and the new AlwaysOn Cluster. Note one of these is running SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server Core 1 x VM running  SQL Server 2012 the database...
    on20 Dec 2011

  • Blog Post: SQL Server 2012 and the private cloud

    Putting up a marketing slide that says SQL Server is a good private cloud citizen is good marketing, but what’s in the box to back the claim up? My top three would be: Windows Server core .  Patching is a major maintenance problem with lots of virtual machines, and server core cuts that in half...
    on1 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: SQL Server HP Appliances & the modern data centre

    There is a lot of advice on whether to virtualise SQL Server and many dbas are under pressure to do this.  There’s good advice here from SQL CAT on best practice on hyper-V and if you are in the business of acquiring hardware to run SQL Server virtualised then there are two reference architectures...
    on17 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Back to Skool

    Getting time, and resources to stay current with technology is always hard for IT professionals even when that training applies directly to your role. If you are thinking of cross training because for whatever reason you can’t see a future in doing what you are currently doing then you’re...
    on11 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: The 7P’s of projects

    Proper Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance I mention this because the process of working out how to make changes to your data centre can and should take longer than doing the actual work.  For example if you are going to dive into virtualisation or do more with it,...
    on6 Jun 2011

  • Blog Post: Get your own best of the Microsoft Management Summit bits

    Many of us couldn’t afford to make it Vegas for the MMS 2011 so in the UK last month the UK TechNet team put together a one day event Best of MMS and we managed to get quite a few of the US speakers over for that.  However that day was quickly sold out, and I know many of you couldn’t get to it...
    on19 May 2011

  • Blog Post: Help stamp out SQL Server neglect

    eI am thinking of starting a new royal society the for the protection of cruelty to SQL Server as I am seeing my favourite database suffering a lot of abuse out there as part of the blind rush to virtualisation.  A good example is, Gillian,  a dba I met at SQL Bits who was nearly in tears because...
    on19 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: Thoughts on Dynamic Memory

    Dynamic memory has some people worried.  I get it because even with my monster orange laptop (Dell Precision M6500) with 16Gb RAM and 600Gb of storage across 3  SSDs I can see my memory is better optimised and I can be really aggressive with the memory each virtual machine gets on start up...
    on7 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: SQL Server and dynamic memory with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 sp1

    Running SQL Server in a virtual machine is a good thing for many reasons however there are two basic rules: don’t over commit processors use fixed or pass through disks (i.e. not dynamic one) The guidance from the SQL CAT (SQL Server Customer Advisory Team) doesn’t extend to memory as up until now you...
    on28 Feb 2011

  • Blog Post: Normal Service has been resumed

    I’ve just got back from 5 weeks off in NZ to celebrate my 50th lap of the sun, hence the guest posts on here recently. Just before I went away  the UK TechNet team setup  Tech Days Online .. based on a chat Simon and I had about what 2011 holds for the IT Professional which you can watch here...
    on17 Feb 2011

  • Blog Post: How Dense are you?

    One of the drivers to moving to the cloud be that public or private is the promised reduced management overhead and cost savings. Part of this comes from how effectively infrastructure can be utilised and so partially idle virtual machines can be consolidated alongside each other to get the most out...
    on17 Dec 2010

  • Blog Post: Conversations on the Cloud

    One way to get interesting interviews is to put a group of people with differing views in a room and fire up the cameras.  So when Zane Adam (general manager for Azure) was over for IPExpo we thought is would be interesting to get him to talk to some of the leading lights in the Vmware community...
    on16 Dec 2010

  • Blog Post: What is the Private Cloud?

    One of my most read blog posts is Private Cloud? which means that the private cloud is of interest and hopefully what I wrote went over fairly well.  However greater minds than mine actually design all of this  and one of those minds is Zane Adam who is pretty much in charge of Windows Azure...
    on2 Dec 2010

  • Blog Post: Search and deploy

    It’s a sad fact of life that search doesn’t always get you that answer you were looking for.  This is mainly because it isn’t always obvious what you are actually looking for especially when it comes to technical stuff.  My main problem when looking around for stuff is that there is sometimes...
    on1 Dec 2010

  • Blog Post: SQL Server performance in a virtual world

    Despite doing quite a few posts and talks on Virtualising SQL Server, I am still getting the odd comment on earlier posts, so please forgive this if you have heard it all before. Firstly these are my musings on the topic to date: Virtualisation for the DBA part 1  - Are you bovvered? Virtualisation...
    on23 Nov 2010

  • Blog Post: A cloudy day at EZE IT

    I got asked to do a 40 minute slot on Virtualisation and cloud at a partner event to day run by EZEIT , while Simon got the tough job of condensing windows deployment down to  40 minutes as well (his post and deck is here).. I got a bit flat footed here, as the audience were already familiar with...
    on27 Oct 2010

  • Blog Post: Remote desktop and VDI

    In my post yesterday I showed I gave you an introduction to Remote Desktop Services, today I want to contrast and compare a traditional remote desktop approach with the shiny new thing that is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI),  in order to understand when to use them. First of all why would...
    on8 Sep 2010

  • Blog Post: An introduction to Remote Desktop Services options

    I am sometimes confused when things get renamed, but it made a lot of sense for Microsoft to  renamed Terminal Services to Remote Desktop Services as it has changed out of all recognition from where it started.  In fact we made this simple video to show how much has changed in Windows Server...
    on7 Sep 2010

  • Blog Post: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should, mixing Hyper-V and other applications in Windows Server

    I have got the highest respect for Hyper-V. It’s simple to use I don’t need to learn any new interface (it’s just another mmc snap-in)  in which to mange the virtual world.  However when someone asks me if they can install other roles alongside hyper-V in production I say “Oi mate NO don’t...
    on1 Sep 2010

  • Blog Post: Managing a small private cloud

    In my last post I mentioned that the key to a private cloud was effective management.  If your organisation has less than 50 server and 500 clients, you’re new best friend could well be System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 .  It’s a subtle blend of the important bits from the individual bigger...
    on9 Aug 2010

  • Blog Post: Woodland Trust and Green IT

    I was lucky enough to meet  Lionel Wilson , head of IS at the Woodland Trust at the Windows 7 launch last year.  He is now starting to implement what he saw on Hyper V and Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 as the trust prepares to move into it’s (literally) cool new HQ building...
    on1 Jul 2010

  • Blog Post: Virtualisation for the DBA part 4 – Licensing and Support

    To wrap up this mini-series on virtualisation, I wanted to clarify the support and licensing stuff you need to know if you want to Virtualise. The support is really simple, Microsoft support virtual machines just as though they are real environments.  The interesting bit is that this isn’t specific...
    on21 Oct 2009

  • Blog Post: Virtualisation for the DBA part 3 – SQL Server Performance

    As I have said already in this series the major concern most DBA’s have when virtualising SQL Server is performance. I think this is actually a bit of myth for a number reasons: Virtualisation just keeps getting better .  This is down to a partnership between the hardware and software industries...
    on20 Oct 2009
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