Virtualisation for the DBA part 2 – SQL Server Management

re: Virtualisation for the DBA part 2 – SQL Server Management

Abdullah — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:29:34 GMT

So, it is simply as if I take many .vhd files and use/run them from one virtual pc installation (one OS).

Thanks a lot Anderew.

re: Virtualisation for the DBA part 2 – SQL Server Management

Andrew.Fryer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:09:15 GMT

Abdullah thats simple back up the physical machine using windows backup (you may want to clean it up first). this creates a VHD and thta's what you mount as a virtual hard disk in Hyper-V.

If you have system centre virtual machine manager this can be automated.

Andrew

pleas feel free to contact me directly if you need further help

re: Virtualisation for the DBA part 2 – SQL Server Management

Abdullah — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:37:41 GMT

@Andrew_Fryer:

"many organisations simply create a virtual machine for every physical server they have and them lump them onto a fewer number of newer more powerful servers.".

I mean explaining (in simple way) how to make/implement that?

Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Abdullah

Saudi Arabia

re: Virtualisation for the DBA part 2 – SQL Server Management

Andrew.Fryer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:28:22 GMT

Abdullah,

Do you mean how you take the whole environement ofof a physicla server and then make it a virtual one?

Andrew

re: Virtualisation for the DBA part 2 – SQL Server Management

Abdullah — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:37:42 GMT

Thanks for the article.

It will be nice if you explain how to make that one VM (which represents a physical server) installed (distributed) on/among different machines (e.g. new powerful servers)?

Regards,

Abdullah