January 2008 - Posts

• Calculating disk usage and capacity using Diskmon

  While evaluating SAN storage solutions for our VMWare environment, we found ourselves asking the question "How many systems can we fit on this system before IOPs and/or throughput become a bottleneck?" Come to find out, the answer is not a simple Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:18 AM by jeff | 1 Comments

• SQL Server Authentication Channnel Encryption

  We had a customer recently inquire as to whether the authentication channel between a client and a SQL Server was encrypted by default. While we know that SSL is supported on SQL Server 2005, we did not have a certificate installed. However, it was rumored Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:56 PM by jeff | 1 Comments