Comments on: VMware vCenter & SQL server best practices [updated 15/4/09]

By: vmengineer

vmengineer — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:40:46 +0000

Hey, I want to add an additional consideration based on real world experience and over 7 different support incidents with the highest level of Vmware engineers (4th level support).

vCenter has a major design flaw with the vDistributed switch. vCenter relys on the vDistributed switch and the vDistributed switch relys on vCenter. This is a terrible terrible design flaw, that can be worked around by building your environment using hybrid standard vSwitches and the vDistributed switch.

My recommendation after a horrible experience with the vDistributed switch, cluster vCenter on a physical box and save yourself and your enterprise customers the headache.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:17:21 +0000

ok… so vmware says only 5 hosts on sql express… is that a hard limit? we have 6…. and dont want the extra issues of having sql remote for one extra host

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:41:58 +0000

I fully agree with Vikash, disable DRS for the VC/SQL VM so you always know where it resides. Especially in large environments.

By: Vikash Kumar Roy

Vikash Kumar Roy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:27:49 +0000

I would rahter disable DRS on VC VM’s to make sure I would know were my VM was incase of DR

Thanks,
Vikash

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:29:28 +0000

Hello Matthijs,
Great article! I couldn’t agree more.
I put a reference on our site http://www.vmguru.nl
Keep up the good work,
Erik

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By: Rob Mokkink

Rob Mokkink — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:04:43 +0000

Hi Matthijs,

You forgot to mention 3rd party products like for example Neverfail (which i really like)

I am curious what ESX 4 will bring us with the new VM HA options.

Regards,

Rob

By: RBrambley

RBrambley — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:12:08 +0000

Thanks for the link, and I love the new look!