To improve the experience of running SQL Server inside virtual machines, Redgate Software has added support for VMware to version 7.1 of its SQL Server monitoring tool, SQL Monitor.
Users can now quickly – and easily – identify if performance concerns are being caused by an issue within SQL Server or VMware.
The new version of SQL Monitor automatically detects any SQL Server instances running on virtual machines and presents VMware- related performance data in the Server Overview page.
“Behind the scenes, we’ve spent a lot of time developing really valuable VMware metrics,” says Mark Champion, Redgate Product Marketing Manager. “But the real key to their usability is how users access the information. Rather than having to hunt for them, the overview is presented through a constantly updated graphical interface. It’s immediately apparent whether a problem is down to SQL Server or VMware, and the problem can be investigated further through an analysis page.”
The metrics for monitoring VMware include times when the CPU of a virtual machine is under-provisioned, where VMware is trying to reclaim memory, or when the physical host is under load. When issues like this arise, users can see in seconds the real cause of a drop in performance and, importantly, know what they need to do to resolve it.
The development team at Redgate is now working on other features that have been requested by users like the ability to configure and filter alerts so that, over time, SQL Monitor can be trained to know which alerts are the most important to individual users.
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