We run a production MS SQL DB at just over 300gb on a VM just fine. The key is making sure that you have the proper hardware. We've ran this for over a year just fine.
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Leone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VM's in AD On 6/1/2011 3:35 PM, Joseph Heaton wrote: > We're about 95% virtualized here. The only things that aren't > virtual, really, are our SQL boxes. Yeah, we rarely, if ever, run SQL on virtual boxes. Except for really small DBs, maybe. And certainly not the larger production DBs, which are up around the 300G mark these days ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
