I have a Debian install with KVM + Libvirt love. I've got a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM running with 3 drives. Originally they were set to VirtIO, but I have since changed two of the three to SATA. The ...

Database admins are able to find storage performance problems easily using Performance Monitor. But why is it so hard to get storage administrators to find and fix storage performance problems? To ...

Intel's Hyperthreading Technology (HT) is being blamed for server performance problems. With both SQL Server and Citrix Terminal Server installations, HT-enabled motherboards show markedly degraded ...

Intel's hyperthreading technology, which aims to improve the performance of its processors, is being blamed by some technologists for server performance problems. With both SQL Server and Citrix ...

SQL far and away needs more CPU. But it also needs ALOT more RAM than 192MB. This MUST be a small project, so I would just skip SQL (neither of those sysems would run SQL very well) and just use IIS ...