Andy Levy shares a few lessons learned from painful experience:
A couple of times, I’ve had under-performing VMs running SQL Server. As I hadn’t been involved in the configuration, I thought everything had been provisioned properly. Turns out…not so much. Memory reservations, storage configuration, power profiles, all set up for suboptimal performance.
Lesson learned: Ask your VMWare admin if they’ve perused the best practices guide and review things yourself before going down the rabbit hole of SQL Server configuration & query tuning. If the underlying systems aren’t configured well, you’ll spin your wheels for a long time.
Read on for more lessons.