http://jasonmassie.com/archive/2009/07/private-clouds-and-the-rdbms/ SQL, Performance, Cloud, Bad Humor Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:34:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://jasonmassie.com/archive/2009/07/private-clouds-and-the-rdbms/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Weekly Links Recap for July 31 | Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:33:00 +0000 http://jasonmassie.com/archive/2009/07/private-clouds-and-the-rdbms/#comment-68 [...] Private Clouds and the RDBMS – Jason Massie (of Terremark, a company that’s doing cloud work) talks about why you might have your own internal enterprise cloud inside your datacenter.  The “private cloud” term is thrown around more and more by analysts.  The more comfortable your company gets with internal virtualization, the more open they’re going to be to external clouds. [...] [...] Private Clouds and the RDBMS – Jason Massie (of Terremark, a company that’s doing cloud work) talks about why you might have your own internal enterprise cloud inside your datacenter.  The “private cloud” term is thrown around more and more by analysts.  The more comfortable your company gets with internal virtualization, the more open they’re going to be to external clouds. [...]

]]> http://jasonmassie.com/archive/2009/07/private-clouds-and-the-rdbms/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Something for the weekend 24/07/09 | John Sansom - SQL Server DBA in the UK Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:39:40 +0000 http://jasonmassie.com/archive/2009/07/private-clouds-and-the-rdbms/#comment-64 [...] Private Clouds and the RDBMS – Jasson Massie shares his thoughts and views on the subject. [...] [...] Private Clouds and the RDBMS – Jasson Massie shares his thoughts and views on the subject. [...]

]]> http://jasonmassie.com/archive/2009/07/private-clouds-and-the-rdbms/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Jason Massie Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:44:45 +0000 http://jasonmassie.com/archive/2009/07/private-clouds-and-the-rdbms/#comment-61 The problem I have found, at least with databases on *nix and vmware, is the fact that you usually have to set memory reservations. The problem I have found, at least with databases on *nix and vmware, is the fact that you usually have to set memory reservations.

]]> http://jasonmassie.com/archive/2009/07/private-clouds-and-the-rdbms/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Erik Giberti Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:38:14 +0000 http://jasonmassie.com/archive/2009/07/private-clouds-and-the-rdbms/#comment-60 Great points, although I would say many shops have far more resources allocated to their DB environment than are really necessary. Also, with oversubscription as you mentioned briefly, some clients may be able to position virtual machine instances that have different peak times to further reduce idle computing resources. I've read (although never worked with it) that Mosso from Rackspace provides mixed availability of physical and virtual equipment. @giberti Great points, although I would say many shops have far more resources allocated to their DB environment than are really necessary. Also, with oversubscription as you mentioned briefly, some clients may be able to position virtual machine instances that have different peak times to further reduce idle computing resources. I've read (although never worked with it) that Mosso from Rackspace provides mixed availability of physical and virtual equipment. @giberti

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