Server consolidation with SQL Server with Justin Langford

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Server consolidation with SQL Server

This session will provide attendees with an insight into running a SQL Server consolidation project. We will cover the crucial points to ensure successful server consolidation from both technical and business perspectives. Here's a summary of the session:

Business and technical drivers
- Why consolidate?
- Type of consolidation (physical, storage, geographic)
Planning and considerations
- Key considerations (SQL Server behaviour/ characteristics in shared environments disk/ CPU/ memory)
- Designing SQL instance and common configurations
Guiding principles for consolidation Design and implementation
- Consolidation process
- Migration Tools
Potential issues and solutions
- Shared components (schedulers, buffer pool, procedure cache, disk IO, tempdb)
- Using Windows Server Resource Manager or Resource Governor

Presented by Justin Langford at SQLBits V

WMV Video 192 MB

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Server consolidation with SQL Server

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