VMworld 2014 VAPP2979 – Advanced SQL Server on vSphere Techniques and Best Practices
Speakers: Scott Salyer – Sr. Manager BCA Solutions, VMware
Vishnu Mohan – Consulting Architect, VMware, Inc
Running Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere offers many options for database availability and disaster recovery utilizing the best features from both VMware and SQL Server. Did you know you can use VMware HA with SQL Server native availability features to achieve higher availability? Did you know you can perform “rolling software upgrade” with a standby VM? In this session we will have in-depth discussions on the high availability options, including VMware HA, Application HA, vMotion, DRS, SRM, SQL Server failover clustering, database mirroring, as well as the latest SQL Server 2012 and 2014 AlwaysOn technologies. In addition we will address advanced storage options for SQL server on vSphere. Demos and scenario based solutions will be used throughout the discussions.