Adding LUNs In VMware – A Cautionary Tale
Over the last 10 years plus of being a DBA I’ve performed LUN manipulation tasks on dozens of occasions with no errors or problems. Other than adding new disks to Windows 2003 clusters I’ve never had...
View ArticleChecking Windows Power Plans With PowerShell
Are you getting the best performance out of your CPUs in Windows 2008? You might think you are however the Power Plan that Windows is using might be hurting you and degrading your CPU performance by as...
View ArticleSQL Clustering–Network Binding Order Warnings
In setting up my Windows 2008 R2/SQL 2008 R2 cluster this week I came across a warning in the Setup Support Rules stating that “The domain network is not the first bound network.” This didn’t make...
View ArticleMSDTC Failing In A Cluster
I’m merrily working away on installing SQL 2008R2 on a bunch of new clusters. The SQL installs have gone fine and I’m getting set to install MSDTC, one for each SQL instance (read the awesome post by...
View ArticleGrabbing The Newest File From Subdirectories Using PowerShell
Every once in a while I come up with a need for something a little out of the ordinary, in this instance I was moving backups from one machine to another. Robocopy is the obvious tool of choice to do...
View ArticleCreating A Clustered SQL Install ini File Using PowerShell–Part 2
In Part 1 I showed how the cluster was readied for the SQL install. In this short part 2 I’ll go over the Active Directory configuration components so that everything is ready for us to start...
View ArticleCreating A Clustered SQL Install ini File Using PowerShell–Part 3
In parts 1 and 2 the cluster was made ready for the SQL install and the Active Directory objects were created. In the final part of the series we will finally get to creating the ini file and...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell To Restrict MSDTC Ports
Ever tried to create a linked server that uses MSDTC only to find yourself blocked by your company firewall? Ever tried to run a WMI query against a server just to find yourself blocked? Ever had the...
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