SQL 2008 Virtualization and Consolidation with Charley Hanania

Charley Hanania is a Senior Database Specialist, working as the Production Product Owner of the MS SQL Server platform at UBS. Charley talks a little about how SQL 2008 will help to resolve some key enterprise database challenges. He talks about Policy Based Management (PBM, formerly known as DMF), resource governor, consolidation and virtualization of SQL Server.

Some other topics he talks about:

• Considerations to think about when going from SQL 2005 to 2008
• Data compression helping with IO for consolidation and virtualization

At 2:48 we do a whiteboard session with Charley on database consolidation and virtualization in the environment. He also gives us insight into what implications SQL 2005 versus SQL 2008 have in this scenario.

Some useful links from Charley:

• Server Consolidation with SQL Server 2008 
• Resource Governor
• Performance Data Warehouse
• Administering Servers by Using Policy-Based Management
• Data Warehouse Scalability Features in SQL Server 2008: Data Compression
• Optimizing HP Servers with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
• A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Centre Consolidation
• Forrester Research: IT Consolidation
• Forrester Research: Position IT for Innovation by Fixing Duplication and Ambiguity