VMware vCenter & SQL server best practices [updated 15/4/09]
VMware vCenter & SQL : Best Practice
This month I started on a new project and I noticed again a different approach from a colleague to the vCenter/SQL/Physical/Virtual issue. And of course there has been written a lot about this issue but I couldn’t find my exact view anywhere else so I thought I’d open up a discussion here by presenting the Best Practice in my humble opinion.
There are 4 critical decisions you have to make concerning the vCenter server for your VI:
1. vCenter server : physical or virtual.
2. SQL Database (server) : locally or detached.
3. Redundancy options : make it redundant and if so; how?
4. License server : locally or detached.
An Introduction to VMware View 3
I stumbled up on a nice post from Roland van der Kruk at BrianMadden’s site concerning VMware View 3. He wrote a review/introduction that’s worth reading if you don’t that much about VMware View 3 yet. … Continue Reading
