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Should I Install SQL Server on a Virtual Machine (such as Hyper-V or VMWare)?

It's pretty rare that an amazingly awesome whitepaper comes out but one just hit the net. The article is written my Mark Pohto, a senior systems engineer in Microsoft IT with help from both Jimmy May and Ward Pond. This whitepaper is very, very much worth your time. Do you want to know what are the benefits of installing SQL Server on a virtualized server? Got it. What are the limitations of installing SQL Server 2008 on VMWare? Kinda got it - the whitepaper is really more Microsoft-friendly since it only technically covers Hyper-V but the same basic premises apply.

I won't copy/paste too much here but there are two places you should visit:

  1. Get the whitepaper: Word doc and online
  2. Read this similar-yet-different article from The Architecture Journal, Green IT in Practice: SQL Server Consolidation in Microsoft IT 
  3. Read Ward Pond's blog entry about it since that's where I first learned of this (thanks, Ward! What's up with the weird disclaimer at the bottom though?)
authors
scott whigham
grant moyle
chad weaver
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