Performance Tuning for Microsoft SQL on a VMware Virtual Machine

One of the support guys from VMware Global Support Services went above and beyond and sent me a bunch of really good articles on tuning SQL in a virtual environment. Some of these articles are general tuning for any VM. All good stuff. I'm paying it forward and sharing the articles with you. .....


Performance Tuning Best Practices
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi_performance_tuning.pdf


Page 13 - Virtual Machine Options and Resources
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_vm_admin_guide.pdf


Virtual Machine Performance Problems
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/69


SQL Server Performance
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/SQLServerWorkloads.pdf


Microsoft SQL Server and VMware Virtual Infrastructure
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/sql_server_virt_bp.pdf


Tips for configuring Microsoft SQL Server in a virtual machine
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002951


Best Practices for SQL Server
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8964

Thanks Brent for going above and beyond. We all appreciate it.


~ Scott March