Educational Episodes: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

Some time ago, while looking through what SQL server Basic Availability Groups (BAG) can do, I found an awesome article by Pieter Vanhove: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msftpietervanhove/2017/03/14/top-5-questions-about-basic-availability-groups/. There was nothing about performance, though, so I thought: “Hey, why not write an article about BAG performance?” Later, I realized that you need to compare this performance to something else, right? So, I decided to add SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) performance measurements. Maybe, I’ll add some SQL Server Availability Groups (AG) measurements at the end; but, let’s see first whether SQL Server FCI can run twice as fast as SQL Server BAG. In this study, I measured BAG performance alone. Now, as we know the scope of the article, let’s move on!

Microsoft’s Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is set to deprecate driver synchronization by April 2025. What does this mean for your on-premises updates?

In this article, I’d like to compare results of the previous two and find out whether SQL Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) can provide you two times higher performance than SQL Server Basic Availability Groups (BAG).

Interested in NVMeoF vs iSCSI debate? Explore our latest article and learn how to set up High Availability cluster on Proxmox VE with NVMe-oF storage.

Learn about the new features in VMware vSphere8 Update 3. This update includes dual DPU support, enhanced CPU functionality, and the efficient vSphere Live Patch.

Discover the pros and cons of the most popular virtualization platforms and hypervisors: VMware, Hyper-V, Azure Stack HCI, and KVM.

Some time ago, discussing how cool VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 is, I briefly mentioned content libraries. That article was just an overview, so I decided not to go into details, saying that some features need their own posts. In today’s article, I’d like to share my hands-on experience with content libraries and help you to decide whether this feature can make your life any easier.

Discover the essential security upgrades in VMware vSphere8. Our detailed guide covers everything you need to know to protect your virtual environment from cyber threats.

19 September 2018, VMware announced the end General availability for vSphere 5.5 – their probably most installed vSphere versions to date. But, wait, why write about it in January 2019? You see, some being misled by a title starting with “End”, think that it might be the end for the solution… WRONG! To overcome this fallacy, I decided to write an article that sheds light on VMware Lifecycle Policy and proves that End of General Availability is not the end!