http://blogs.technet.com/b/andrew/archive/2009/10/16/virtualisation-for-the-dba-part-1-are-you-bovvered.aspx&#160; I have been at a couple of trade shows over the last couple of weeks and a consistent theme has emerged, the reluctance of DBA’s to virtualise SQL Server, whether or not that is Hyper-V.&#160; If you fall into this camp please read-on… Hopefullyen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/andrew/archive/2009/10/16/virtualisation-for-the-dba-part-1-are-you-bovvered.aspx#3296511Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:52:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3296511ashley denton<p>great article really enjoyed it, i've been looking into ways in which my business could implement a virtualisation strategy and i'm very much looking forward to where it will go in the future, this is a good article which i came accross <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://bit.ly/futurevirtualisation">http://bit.ly/futurevirtualisation</a> looking forward to reading more of your articles in the future.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3296511" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/andrew/archive/2009/10/16/virtualisation-for-the-dba-part-1-are-you-bovvered.aspx#3288140Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:10:41 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3288140Andrew.Fryer<p>Chris thanks and do feel free to ping me directly if you need anything more on this</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3288140" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/andrew/archive/2009/10/16/virtualisation-for-the-dba-part-1-are-you-bovvered.aspx#3287594Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:57:12 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3287594Chris Dearden<p>Hi Andy , I may have been one of the people you've been chatting too on this.</p> <p>One of the idea's we've considered is a specific low density virtualisation layer for Virtualising SQL - possibly going as low as 1-1 ( reason being some workloads that are not supported in a MSCS environment - and having Virtual Machine layer clustering is better than nothing ) </p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3287594" width="1" height="1">