When:

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 @ 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time

Webinar:

Microsoft SQL Server Virtualization Without a Hypervisor

Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server through a hypervisor (e.g., VMware, etc.) is an incomplete answer to the requirements a DBA team has in provisioning, managing and tuning SQL Server.  Although leveraging VMs reduces the number of physical database servers, it also comes with a number of pitfalls.  For instance, VMs typically result in 30% slower database performance.  Additionally, VMs increase complexity in the stack, make true high availability (HA) complicated, and increase the costs of SQL Server licensing.

This webinar will address the costs of virtualizing SQL Server with a hypervisor vs. virtualizing SQL Server while still using physical servers. Details will be provided on how to build a SQL Server private cloud using physical servers while enabling you to exceed the operational model of hypervisor-based server virtualization, while reducing operating costs by over 60%.

This webinar will cover:

- The benefits of SQL Server virtualization

- A comparison of SQL Server virtualization with VMs vs. application virtualization with DxConsole

- A comparison of the outcome of each approach; cost savings, management considerations, patching, performance management, ability to meet service level agreements (SLA), quality of service (QoS), disaster recovery (DR), and high availability (HA)

Registration:

https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/499640055