A quick post to a link to a brilliant document about VMware’s recent VDI 2.1 release. At 164 pages it is very conprehensive and talks through installation, configuration and other little tidbits.
Enjoy!
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, but this in itself can cause issues due to the software limitations.
The pros and cons of SAN based snapshots are discussed in this excellent article over at searchsqlserver.
I try not to use the word legend too often, but Carter Shanklin my friend you are a legend. Powershell is great, Excel is great and VMware is even greater, put them all together and you have something special.
Carter has written a number of Powershell cmdlets that have been given fantastic Excel frontends for completing VMware configuration tasks.
From the mundane to the curious Carter has created a group of spreadsheets that have made my life a whole lot easier:
Carter, thank you and I mean that!
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