Customer Success Stories
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viaHealth
Consolidate large Oracle and SQL databases, Exchange, and McKesson. Reduce TCO, simplify administration, provide greater control over computing resources, and increase availability. -
Interior Health Authority
Migrate databases from outdated physical servers to virtual machines, thereby consolidating infrastructure and providing reliable disaster recovery. -
Southwestern / Great American
Consolidate SAP ERP and Microsoft SQL infrastructure, and increase business agility with fast provisioning, simple hardware upgrades, and higher availability. -
Boise Inc.
Consolidate Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and Oracle Databases infrastructure, simplify systems management, and develop a disaster-avoidance plan. -
The Cleveland Indians Company
Consolidate Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server infrastructure, implement a streamlined Disaster Recovery plan, and increase application manageability. -
FutureFuel
Consolidate SAP, SQL, Exchange and other applications, accelerate testing with fast provisioning, right-size the infrastructure, and increase availability with VMware HA. -
McHenry Savings Bank
Minimize new hardware purchases for its growing Microsoft SQL environment. -
Subaru
Increase flexibility and system reliability for SQL Server while eliminating approximately two-thirds of their physical servers. -
Department of Energy
Virtualize Microsoft SQL 2005 environment along with several other enterprise applications.
Introductory Resources
White Papers
- Support and Licensing Guide – SQL Server on vSphere
- SQL Server on vSphere FAQ
- SQL Server on vSphere - Use Cases
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Availability and Recovery Options for Microsoft SQL® on vSphere
Describes different alternatives for achieving High Availability for SQL Server on vSphere including VMware HA, Log Shipping, Database Mirroring, and Failover Clustering. -
Best Practices Guide for Virtualizing SQL Server
Best practice guidelines for deploying Microsoft SQL Server on vSphere. -
Performance and Scalability of Microsoft SQL Server® on VMware vSphere 4
A 2009 paper describing detailed performance analysis of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 on vSphere for an enterprise database workload. -
Performance Study: SQL Server Workload Consolidation
A 2008 analysis of the impact of server consolidation on SQL Server performance. -
White Paper: SQL Server Performance in VMware Infrastructure
A 2007 performance analysis of SQL Server 2005 on ESX 3.0 by VMware and HP. -
White Paper: Benchmarking Microsoft SQL Server Using VMware ESX Server 3.5
A 2008 benchmark of SQL OLTP on ESX 3.5 by Brocade. -
Solution Brief: Microsoft SQL Server, VMware Virtual Infrastructure, and EMC Celerra NS Storage Server
A 2008 Implementation guideline to virtualizing SQL Server with EMC Celerra Storage. -
Reference Architecture Guide: Microsoft SQL Server, VMware Virtual Infrastructure, and EMC Celerra NS Storage Server
A 2008 architectural overview for virtualizing SQL Server with EMC Celerra Storage.
