Reading Critically: VMware Virtual SAN Performance with SQL Server
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Seriously, I’m not trying to pick on VMware documentation, but lately there’s some odd stuff coming out. Last week it was a really bad book, and today it’s a technical white paper from VMware itself – VMware Virtual SAN Performance with Microsoft SQL Server. It’s an easy read – a 9-page PDF – but here’s the highlights. Think about the white paper’s title for a second: it sounds like it’s going to test how well the storage performs with SQL Server. Virtual SAN – so we’re testing a storage-intensive workload, right? Wrong, because the very first paragraph of the executive…
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