Before we get started, I want to make it clear this is NOT how you would normally configure all these items in a production environment. This is meant for a lab or demo area to play with Availability Groups over multiple subnets. I use VMware a lot for demos at work as well as tooling around with various Windows and SQL Server related stuff. In working with Availability Groups, one of the things I would like to do for my demos is have multiple subnets in VMware Workstation, so I can simulate a site failover. Just to test Availability Groups...
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VMware vSphere Storage Performance – Thick vs Thin Provisioning
Industry experts will tell you that virtualization of your environment is not done to improve performance, it’s done to make it cheaper and easier to manage. The task of most VM administrators is to cram as many VMs into a farm as possible. One of the ways is to accomplish that is to allocate “thin provisioned” storage to each VM.For each VM that is created, the VM admin has to specify the number of virtual CPUs, the amount of virtual RAM, the number and size of each virtual disk, as well as a few other items. The virtual disks can...
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