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Introduction to KVM, SR-IOV, and Exploring the Advantages of SR-IOV in KVM Environments

DZone

It allows physical servers to serve as hypervisor hosting machines ( VMs ). Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate. Primitives not frameworks.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%