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
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