The Vanishing Database Administrator – Survey
The Vanishing Database Administrator: Survey of Data Professionals’ Career Aspirations, was produced by Unisphere Research and sponsored by Ntirety.Unisphere Research is the market research unit of Unisphere Media, a division of Information Today, Inc., publishers of Database Trends and Applications magazine and the 5 Minute Briefing newsletters.
This survey is loaded with lots of good data. Learn what are the primary job stressors of the of your DBA’s. Did you know
Database Virtualization (Monster VM) – vSphere 6
This presentation was given at SQL Saturday Austin #461. The presentation is based upon a top 10 presentation “Virtualizing Databases: Doing IT Right given” at VMworld last year in Barcelona and the US. In this presentation we will teach you how to properly virtualize any business critical application with specifics on databases and VMware newest release vSphere 6.0. A database is a very resource intensive by its very nature a monster VM and one of the most resource intensive applications you will ever virtualize. If it is not done correctly you will not be successful. This presentation will teach you how to do it right. We will discuss why you virtualize a database, using the right hypervisor, installation, Architecting for performance, the storage layer, the processor, Memory considerations, the network layer. Topics include NUMA, Memory reservations, Network details to how to avoid common mistakes. Special Thanks to Jeff Szastak, Don Sullivan, David Klee and Kanan Mani who helped in the creation of this presentation.
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Virtualizing Databases: Doing IT Right – The Sequel
Virtualizing Database Doing IT Right – The SeQueL was given at both VMworld Europe and VMworld USA. It was a top 10 presentation at VMworld. This was a collaboration of Michael Corey, President of Ntirety and Jeff Szastak, VMware, Inc.
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Virtualizing SQL Server 2012: Doing IT Right
A SQL Server database is a resource intensive application, and thus requires attention to its implementation on a vSphere platform. Attend this technical session to learn how to properly virtualize SQL Server on a vSphere platform. This presentation is the joint work of Michael Corey of Ntirety and Jeff Szastak of VMware.
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