Windows Server 2008 R2 Technical White Paper
Published: May, 2010
Applies to:
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft System Center
Introduction: This white paper describes the advantages of deploying Microsoft® SQL Server® database application workloads to a virtualization environment using Microsoft Windows® Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-V™. It demonstrates that Hyper-V provides the performance and scalability needed to run complex SQL Server workloads in certain scenarios. It also shows how Hyper-V can improve performance when used in conjunction with advanced processor technologies. This paper assumes that the reader has a working knowledge of virtualization, Windows Server Hyper-V, SQL Server, Microsoft System Center concepts and features.
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