Enterprise Workloads and Databases on Nutanix Cloud Platform Evaluation
Enterprise Strategy Group – ESG, recently completed a evaluation of Nutanix Cloud Platform for Enterprise Workloads and Databases,…
Refreshed 100TB Production Oracle DB to 10 x Non-Prod DB’s in 20 Mins!
Managing large databases is hard. Having changes go through a dynamic environment to production with thorough testing is…
Simple Guest OS Clustering Without Complex Config
If you have an application that needs very high service levels for availability (99.999%), 24/7/365, including maintenance and…
Improving HammerDB Benchmark Test Results
HammerDB is a very popular benchmark tool for testing multiple different database engines, including Oracle, SQL Server and…
Windows Script for Marking All Disks Online
You are setting up a new template or VM to be used with SQL Server and to get…
Nutanix Performance Analysis by ESG
At Nutanix Customers’ and Prospects’ often ask about performance data. There is a lot of performance data published,…
Best Practices for Running SQL Server Virtualized
It was about this time in 2013 that Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak and I started writing Virtualizing SQL…
Performance Testing with Microsoft DiskSpd
I’ve been working with a few customers recently that have been using the Microsoft DiskSPD Tool for doing…
Rapid Provisioning of SQL Server Test Environments with Nutanix
I’ve been doing some work recently with SQL Server and Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor on a older Nutanix NX3400…
Performance Testing Databases with Dell DVD Store 2.1 Benchmark
Dell DVDStore is a freely available Database Benchmark that you can use to test a variety of different databases,…