Hi All,
In the document "VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.1 Database Performance Improvements and Best Practices for Large-Scale Environments" located here (http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware-vCenter-DBPerfBestPractices.pdf) It states on page 10 to;
SQL Server Enterprise Edition features
1. Set the max degree of parallelism as follows:
sp_configure 'max degree of parallelism', ((n-1)/2) -1;
n is the number of proccesses.
My question is what value should we substitute for 'n'? Generally would you put the amount of cores the machine has?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1
Cheers,
Joe