VM-Aware

Server, Storage & Application Virtualisation!

A quick post to a link to a brilliant document about VMware’s recent VDI 2.1 release.

SQL Server can be fantastic, but when the databases get to be really large it can become very difficult to fit in a backup window.
Inevitably people start to investigate SAN based snapshots. Almost all storage vendors have the capability to talk directly with SQL Server to quiesce the DB long enough to take the snapshot, [...]

I try not to use the word legend too often, but Carter Shanklin my friend you are a legend.