This link appears to contain the same information on disabling phone home as the 'disappeared' link.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3153756/how-to-configure-sql-server-2016-to-send-feedback-to-microsoft

And thanks very much for taking the trouble to report and document this bug Paul Brewer. Came across your post because I think we have this issue occurring now in...

This bug is listed as fixed in SP1 CU9 now. Has anyone tried it yet and can confirm that the fix works?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2933780

I had the same issue with the passive node complaining that it could not open the SQL Error log file which was placed on a cluster disk. I moved...

There have been reports of significant performance degradation over time with SSD drives, especially when there is heavy write activity. The theory is that this is due to internal fragmentation...

Fragmentation will be increasing on the tables which are splitting. Try running DBCC SHOWCONTIG against the tables and indexes you suspect are splitting.

In perfmon have a look at the Granted Workspace counter in the SQL Server Memory Manager object.

If you are running occasional queries which return a lot of rows, making...