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AgaK
Yak Posting Veteran

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Posted - 2009-10-21 : 14:25:57
Hi,

Is running SQL on VM still a bad idea for performance reasons?

Thank you

AK

tkizer
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Posted - 2009-10-21 : 15:04:32
It can be, depends how you setup the VM and the ESX server. We have many systems on VMs here.

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AgaK
Yak Posting Veteran

86 Posts

Posted - 2009-10-21 : 15:24:02
Hi, Would you have any articles or documents to suggests? thank you AK
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tkizer
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Posted - 2009-10-21 : 15:50:49
VMWare has a lengthy article on configuring the VM for SQL Server performance, but I don't have the link to it handy.

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