Today I wanted to patch my VMware ESXi based virtual machines to SQL Server 2022 CU1 that was released yesterday by Microsoft. This seems to be a quite simple task, but when I powered on my VMs, they were not accessible through the network. After I verified the network connectivity, I saw that the VMs …
On October 8, 2020 I will run an SQLpassion Online Training about how to run SQL Server successfully on VMware vSphere. In this one-day long workshop we will look at the core resources used by SQL Server on VMware vSphere, and how you have to configure them to get the best possible performance from your …
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To be able to provide a 10- and 40 GBit network connectivity in my Home Lab, I’m using a refurbished Cisco Nexus 3064PQ Switch. Because I want to experiment with the native vSphere 7 Kubernetes Integration, I also need to install and configure NSX-T 3.0 – the Network Virtualization solution from VMware. But one of …
As you know, VMware has released a few weeks ago vSphere 7.0. Therefore, it was for me an almost mandatory step to upgrade my serious Home Lab from 6.7 U3 to 7.0. In this blog posting I want to describe the necessary steps, and with which problems I had to deal. My Home Lab consists …
If you want to get your hands dirty with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, the easiest way is to deploy it in Azure Kubernetes Services. But there are also other options available. You can deploy a single-node or multi-node SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster in locally hosted Virtual Machines within your own Data …
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