SQL Server VMs are more alive than ever. They're still the cornerstone that may drive our Azure migrations to success in complex scenarios, thanks to their customizability. On the other hand, configuring and managing an articulated IaaS architecture can be challenging.
The latest additions to the SQL Server VMs world on Azure IaaS can reduce the effort you have to sustain while designing and administering your solution.
What are the current best practices you have to follow to deploy a performant and highly available SQL Server system on Azure IaaS? Are there any new VM series you can leverage to maximize the performance? What about shared storage for our clusters? What is the SQL VM resource provider, and how could it help us?
In this session, we'll discuss all the topics above, including some hints about how to automate various configurations.