SQLBits 2012

Designing a Private Cloud Infrastructure for SQL Server

Do you want to learn how Microsoft helped one of the largest Financial Services organizations in the world design a Private Cloud infrastructure using Windows Hyper-V and System Center 2012 to standardize and consolidate hundreds of SQL Servers?

Do you want to learn how Microsoft helped one of the largest Financial Services organizations in the world design a Private Cloud infrastructure using Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center 2012 to standardize and consolidate hundreds of SQL Server  instances? Then this session is for you, as it will cover the planning, design and operational phases affiliated with a real live case study. 

The following strategies and technologies from the customer engagement will be showcased: How the SQL Server inventory of the existing environment was collected, What hardware was utilized to create the Private Cloud, How were SQL Server Databases migrated to the Private Cloud, How were new SQL Server instances automatically provisioned using the SQL DAC integration tool included in Virtual Machine Manager 2012 , How System Center AppController was used to provide self-service capabilities for the SQL Server Private Cloud.  Finally, high availability, disaster recovery across datacenters, and monitoring for the Private Cloud will be discussed.