Resources
SQL Server on VMware vSphere:
- Architecting Business Critical Applications on VMware Hybrid Cloud
- Microsoft SQL Server and VMware Cloud on AWS: Design, Migration, and Configuration
- https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/solutions/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS.919a954a9b6ca17cdc719ec42cda1401/GUID-E62521730EDBE3DC125813A448BA3B45.htmlMicrosoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere® Availability and Recovery Options
- Performance characterization of Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere 6.5
- Planning highly available, mission critical SQL server deployments with VMware vSphere
VMware Blogs:
- The VMware Workloads Team Blog
- Cornac Hogan, When and why do we “stun” a virtual machine?
- Frank Denneman. NUMA Deep Dive Series
- VMware’s Microsoft SQL Server Blog Posts
- VMware Performance Team Blog Posts
- VMware vSphere Blog Posts
VMware Knowledgebase:
- A snapshot removal can stop a virtual machine for long time
- Configuring disks to use VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapters
- Large-scale workloads with intensive I/O patterns might require queue depths significantly greater than Paravirtual SCSI default values
- Understanding VM snapshots in ESXi / ESX
- Upgrading a virtual machine to the latest hardware version
- Virtual machine becomes unresponsive or inactive when taking a snapshot
VMware Documentation
- SQL Server FCI and File Server on VMware vSAN 6.7 using iSCSI Service
- Understanding Memory Management in VMware vSphere
- VMware Tools
- VMware vCenter Server and Host Management
- VMware vSphere virtual machine encryption performance VMware vSphere 6.5
- VMDK versus RDM
- vSphere Security. vSphere 8.0
SQL Server Resources
- Compute capacity limits by edition of SQL Server
- Description of support for network database files in SQL Server
- Editions and supported features of SQL Server
- How It Works (It Just Runs Faster): Non-Volatile Memory SQL Server Tail of Log Caching on NVDIMM
- How It Works: Soft NUMA, I/O Completion Thread, Lazy Writer Workers and Memory Nodes
- Memory Management Architecture Guide
- Performance Center for SQL Server Database Engine and Azure SQL Database
- Soft-NUMA (SQL Server)
- How It Works: How SQL Server Determines Logical and Physical Processors
- It Just Runs Faster: Automatic Soft NUMA
- SQL Server and Large Pages Explained
- Transaction Commit latency acceleration using Storage Class Memory in Windows Server 2016/SQL Server 2016 SP1
- Virtualization-based Security (VBS)