Educational Episodes: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

The LivePatch feature in VMware vSphere8 Update 3 allows for critical updates to be applied to the ESXi hypervisor without rebooting, minimizing downtime has context menu

Avoid the usual pitfalls when upgrading to vSphere 8 U3. This guide walks through every key step, from backups to post-checks.

Data overload? Learn how to cut through it with data deduplication and data compression. 

Ever struggled with managing old snapshots in VMware? vSphere8 Update 3 has a new automatic deletion feature you need to check out!

Extend your RDS trial with a quick PowerShell trick. Ideal for headless installations where the GUI isn’t an option.

All-flash storage solutions have gained tremendous popularity in recent years. But what exactly is an All-Flash Array, and what is it used for?

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).