Optimizing SQL Server on vSphere
Here is a list of URLs that I have comprised on the topic of optimizing SQL Server on vSphere:
- The SQL on vSphere Best Practices Guide: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/solutions/SQL_Server_on_VMware-Best_Practices_Guide.pdf
- Microsoft SQL Server on VMware Availability and Recovery Option: http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/solutions/sql-server-on-vmware-availability-and-recovery-options.pdf
- Performance and Scalability of Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere 6.0: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/solutions/VMware-SQL-Server-vSphere6-Performance.pdf
- Performance and Scalability of Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere 5.5: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware-sql-server-vsphere55-perf.pdf
- Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere® 6.0: https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware-PerfBest-Practices-vSphere6-0.pdf
- Performance Tuning for Latency-Sensitive Apps: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Tuning-Latency-Sensitive-Workloads.pdf
- DBA Guide to Databases on vSphere: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/solutions/DBA_Guide_to_Databases_on_VMware-WP.pdf
- Everything about Clustering Windows Applications on vSphere: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1037959
- Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service (6.0): http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-60-setup-mscs.pdf