Tag: Shared Disks

A properly configured SQL Server is like a well tuned race engine.

Identify Disk I/O Performance Issues for Your SQL Server Using DiskSpd

“We need faster storage.” Sound familiar? Or what about “No, the storage is good; we need to tune the database.” Often teams will have very different opinions about the root cause of a performance issue. Microsoft’s free DiskSpd utility can help identify disk I/O performance issues for your SQL server systems. Here’s a short introduction…
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Azure shared disks – Failover Clustered Instance – SQL Server 2016

In my last post, I wrote about a new option in Azure – shared disks. Have you ever needed to build a Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) in Azure? This post will provide a few steps to get you started. To follow along with the demo, you’ll need an Azure account (available for free here )…
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