posted May 31, 2012, 11:56 AM by
House of Brick Principal Architect
Introducing a virtualization solution into an existing environment should not be considered complete once the final server is migrated or host is powered on. Simply virtualizing a system stack and walking away is not enough.
Virtualization…
posted May 24, 2012, 12:01 PM by
House of Brick Principal Architect
As database administrators, we are always searching for tools and technologies that can help us improve our lives, our jobs, our systems, and our processes. When a database server is virtualized, a whole new set…
posted May 17, 2012, 12:08 PM by
House of Brick Principal Architect
In our world, monitoring an IT infrastructure is defined as having accurate, up-to-date knowledge of the current state and health of critical servers. Sending alerts based on monitoring metrics means that administrators should be notified…
posted May 10, 2012, 12:21 PM by
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect
This blog post focuses on VMFS-5 enhancements in vSphere and how they improve Virtual Business Critical Applications (VBCA) performance and scalability. VMFS-5 offers several improvements from the previous version VMFS-3.
How VMFS-5 has improved in scalability…
posted May 3, 2012, 12:22 PM by
House of Brick Principal Architect
Over the last month, I have been exploring the new features within SQL Server 2012. I have paid special attention to AlwaysOn, a new feature that effectively blurs the lines between high availability (HA) and…