With all of the talk about virtualization lately, many organizations are ready to pick up everything and virtualize it. After all, it’s the thing to do! Here are some things to keep in mind before virtualizing everything in sight:
1. Don’t virtualize highly utilized servers
One of the biggest benefits of virtualization is being able to make better use of your hardware. Adding virtualization d
As companies are looking to cut costs, many ponder moving their infrastructure to a managed hosting environment rather than maintaining it themselves. Saving money is always an appealing option to any CEO, but the first questions always raised are, “How will our infrastructure respond if it is a hundred of miles away? Will our file sharing performance be hurt due it not being on the local LAN?”
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Many people hold a misconception that Peer-To-Peer replication and active-active clusters can provide write scalability. This article will provide a very brief overview of both technologies and some details as to why these technologies are not capable of scaling write operations.Peer-To-Peer replication will provide you with the ability to read and write from multiple nodes, [...]
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There will be many times when you'll need to initialize or reinitialize a subscriber in a transactional replication configuration with a new snapshot. This is usually the case when creating new publications, creating a new snapshot because changes are made to a publication, or when recovering from replication failures. The snapshot process can be rather resource-intensive depending on your server