Virtualization and ROI

txsnow — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:30:06 GMT

You only need to work in IT about five minutes before someone comes in and asks you to cut costs and find ways to make things work more efficiently. Virtualization is an easy way to achieve those goals. Just like everything else in IT there are many different ways to implement things and many different environments that need to be supported. A great white paper was recently published that highlights how Microsoft customers are cutting costs and building value using the family of Microsoft Virtualization products. These are real world customers using virutalization and saving real money. Take a look at the white paper and while you are at it head on over to the virtualization teams ROI site for more details, an ROI calculator, and even a video.

More on Hyper-V and SQL Server

txsnow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:45:44 GMT

Last week I posted this video interview with Joe Yong talking about virtualization of SQL Server using Hyper-V. Today I follow that up with a link to a great white paper that details out things such as system resource overhead that is imposed by running SQL in a Hyper-V environment as well as describing out the various test configurations run by Microsoft. The best thing that this white paper brings are checklists and recommendations to ensure you are running in the best manner possible. The document also includes some great performance tuning and monitoring suggestions. I myself have taken the guidance and used it to build out my demo environment that I use when I present on SQL Server.

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Virtualization and ROI

More on Hyper-V and SQL Server