Creating a SQL Server Test Lab On Your Workstation by David Fowler
Target Audience:
DBAs, developers and anyone else who would love a SQL Server sandbox to play around in.
Abstract:
One of the most useful tools to the DBA when we need to test new features, recreate a fault that we’ve seen in production or just want to see ‘what if…?’ is a test lab.
In this session I’ll walk you through how to create a virtualised test lab right on on your workstation or laptop.
We will start by selecting a hypervisor, look at building a virtual machine and then creating a domain controller, a couple of clustered SQL Servers and finally fulling functioning availability group.