Day 2 VMware Expert Database Workshop #VMWSQL
Day 2 VMware Expert Database Workshop SQL Edition (#VMWSQL) happened today. Once Again we all started to gather in the hotel lobby starting around 6:30 a.m. The first bus left for the VMWare Sofia Bulgaria office at 7:00 a.m. The VMWare Bulgaria Office in Sofia has been an amazing HOST. The level of care they have given us has been amazing.
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Windows Clustering on VMware vSphere
Shashank Rajvanshi (Product Line Manager, Storage, Storage Product Marketing)
Arun Lakshmipathy and ?Gautham Swamy (Core Storage Dev/QE team)
?It was another very full day at Day 2 VMware Expert Database Workshop. The first presentation of the day was on Windows Clustering. This was done by the team in India and also from Palo Alto California.
Executive Welcome from Tintri
Mark Young – Sr. Director, Systems Engineering, EMEA, Tintri
The next presentation was from Mark Young from one of our sponsors Tintri.??They provided us resources and access to one of their storage array. They also challenge this team of SQL Experts to push the array as hard as they could.
VRealize Automation for SQL Server
Tony Gerdjikov, Sr. MTS, PS CoE, PSO COE
Performance Tuning and Monitoring of SQL Server in the SDDC
David Klee, Heraflux and Deji Akomolafe VMware
Architecting and utilizing NSX for SQL Server in the SDDC
Niran Even Chen VMware
VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
Valentin Bondzio and Niran Even Chen
Executive Welcome VMware
Borislav Borisov, VMware Sr. Director, R&D, vCenter Bulgaria
VMware vRealizeOperations (vRops) w/Blue Medora
Zack Kendra Principal Engineer on MS SQL and Josh Williams Product Manager.
This was a remote presentation.?http://www.bluemedora.com/
High Availability and Data Protection
Allan Hirt, SQLHA
Favorite Quotes of the Day
We were built from the ground up to understand virtual work loads
The Log file, the index, ?. Create different luns for each of those. Basically with Tintri you drop it in, we will configure it
Once upon a time you would have different tiers in the array, Tinti does not work like that. Constant Profiling
We deliver flash like performance with a hybrid
We can take a snap shot of individual VM?s.
It?s incredibly fast and incredibly space efficient.
The way we built our systems so stable we don?t often get calls from the customer
DB as a Service ? T-Shirt Sizing.
Self-service has to be easy otherwise people won?t use it
The default scheme in windows is balanced. Not a good idea if performance is your goal
VMXNET3 is the greatest and fastest controller we have, you should use it
SDDC means I am bring all the intelligence from hardware to software
SDDC We abstract out the network and the security
Continuous availability for all FT-protected workloads
Micro-Segmentation Every critical app has its own security requirements.
FT Best Practices ? Intel Haswell EP and newer
FT Best Practices Use dedicated 10GigE or faster connection
Customer are facing more and more applications that require flexible and efficient management
vMotion can now be encrypted
When Clustering under vSphere it?s a stack?
Generally recommend having one physical AD server? is a small price to pay for a crucial piece of your infrastructure
All networking underneath the VM should be fully redundant.
Add Paravirtual SCSI device ?first then add RDM?s disks and attach
A Few More Pictures from the Day
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