Torben Warberg Rohde's questions

I'm a bit confused as to whether or not it is possible to use the SQL Profiler on the Web/Express edition of SQL Server.

From what I've read so far people generally say "No - it was removed in SQL Server 2012/2014". But then I read the edition/feature overview page:

It says "No", but with this cryptic note:

SQL Server Web, SQL Server Express, SQL Server Express with Tools, and SQL Server Express with Advanced Services can be profiled using SQL Server Standard and SQL Server Enterprise editions.

That led me to do an actual test. I installed SQL Server 2014 Express edition on my workstation, including the SQL Profiler, and was able to connect the profiler to the instance and run traces without any apparent problems.

Maybe this is because I'm running both instance and profiler locally, or perhaps because I also have a full developer version SQL Server 2008 installed? Any hints or answers would be appreciated, I would hate to configure my new (upcoming) server with the Web edition, and then find out that I was unable to use the Profiler (which is the only reason I would choose Standard instead of Web edition).

I have a setup with a Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server and a couple of guests. Yesterday I noticed that one of the guests had become very slow (e.g. noticable lag when browsing through folders). I decided to attempt a restart and at the same apply all new Windows Updates. As it turned out, that took a very long time... Now the server is starting and it is performing "the registry update step of Windows Update", but it is taking forever (or a very long time at least).

The Hyper-V manager reports about 25-50% CPU usage for that machine, but in the Task Manager of the host OS it says 1-5% ?? (which is mostly consumed by the Virtual Machine Worker process). That makes no sense to me. The guest machine had a 50% CPU reserve and limit, which I have now been upped to 100% (made no difference). The server has previously been running smoothly and afaik there have been no changes to the OS/software. The host machine has also been restarted and have had all Windows Updates installed. The host machine itself runs smoothly.

There is also a Windows XP developer guest machine running on the host. That machine runs perfectly fine. If I e.g. fire up VS.NET on it, the CPU-usage will be around 5-40% while starting, and the host OS CPU consumption roughly follows that of the guest (as you would expect).

Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this?

Host OS: Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V (standard ed.)

Guest OS: Windows 2008 (standard ed.)

Hardware: HP ML350 G5

Has anyone got real-life experience with using a Seagate Savvio disk in a HP ML350 G5 server. There are two things I'm worried about.

1. Will it physically fit the tray, can the tray be inserted and will the SAS-connectors fit the connectors on the HD back plane.

2. Will the RAID adapter accept it.

I have posted similar questions before and have gotten fairly fluffy answers. So I'm hoping someone have actually tried it with the same server (or at least just a fairly similar HP server with 2.5" disk trays).

We currently have a HP ML350 G5 server with 3 disks in a RAID-5 array. Is it possible to add more disks, and have them setup in a seperate RAID array on the E200i controller. I.e. not just adding disks to the current array, but adding a whole new array running at the same time as the current one.

(I'm not really a server guy - hence the noob question :o)

I'm looking to buy some extra disk space for a HP ML 350 G5 server. It is for simple file-serving - not OS/system stuff. HP harddisks are insanely expensive, so I'm tempted to buy some other brand instead. I have heard that they sometime use special firmware on their disks, but I suspect that might just be HP spreading rumors to sell disks.

Does anyone have experience using non-HP disks? Any features not working, or not being able to build the RAID at all?

I'm looking at 2.5" SAS Seagate drives - Constellation 500 GB (7.2k) or Savvio 600 GB (10k).