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.
VMware’s Diane Greene about virtual future
EWeek.com had a Q&A with VMware‘s president and CEO Diane Greene. She talks about how virtualization has changed the last year and how she thinks virtualization will develop the next 12-18 months. It’s a good read, and here are some things that interested me the most: … Continue Reading
VMware 3.5 review
Virtualization.info released a review of VMware’s flagship product Virtual Infrastructure 3.5. Although it has been more than 6 months after the release of this product, it is a good review of the product, for existing 3.0x customers and for customers who are new to VMware or virtualization.
You can read it here.
