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Libor Laubacher
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As Tom and Rob pointed out - running DB server on VM is perfectly normal, especially these days anyway. If configured properly (provision, network and underlying storage serving vmdk/vhdx, resource sharing and allocation) you should not see any (major) negative performance impact. You probably don't want (too many) other VM sharing any resources with your production environment, but that's nothing special, the same applies when deploying on a real hardware. Also there are other strengths of virtualization - high avail, replication, tested failover, ability to create a copy of production in a few clicks for testing/QA, central management, etc .... (as mentioned in PPTs pointed out by Rob). Can't stress and agree enough again with Tom & Rob - make sure you do it right. PS. With regards the VMware balloon driver issue: kb.vmware.com/.../search.do
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