Thank you very much.

Are there different areas we need to lok at for the type of database we have. We have OLAP, and data repositories that we do load by batches and...

thank you for your help.

Are latches something that should be of concern?

What would be good baseline numbers to initially give the network/systems group to monitor these metrics? Based on what I read CPU% should be below 60%, Memory utilization ?,...

Should we be that concerned with any of these measures when the databases we support are not the mission critical databases? All database's we have here run 3rd party...

It appears that asode from the normal performance alerts set for the server like %CPU, %Memory utilization and disk I/O, most issues are code related.

So, if I have the network/windows...

We are all set.  Although it took a long time to shut down and about 30min to recover the databases we are up and running....

There were no jobs running at the time. 

Thank you so much.

The version is VMWare ESX infrastructure 3.

Thanks for the replys.  It appears that no one is actually running their LIVE mission critical databases on VMWare.  Their needs to be a list of technical issues other than...

I personally don't see a need for it either.  However, the windows OS server team is pushing for it.  I guess it can make their life easier.  I just want...

What are the advantages for the DBA by combining 7 to 9 separate SQL 2000 database servers into one VMWare server?  Currently each database server is a separate server with one SQL instance per...

Is anyone using it in a LIVE enviroment?

I have read that since I have 3 different server collation sequences I would need to have at least 3 instances.  I have...