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sites with incredible RTO, RPO for business continuity and disaster recovery; however,
if these do not meet the availability requirements the business is looking for, then the
design is invalid.
Center of Excellence
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
—John Wooden
We started this section with a quote from a coach. Virtualization of business-critical
workloads requires a team effort, and it requires individuals on that team to work
together for the good of their organization. What's needed to be successful when
virtualizing SQL Server—and what we have seen lead to successful virtualization
projects with our customers—is the building of a Center of Excellence (CoE) team.
Now, we all need another reason to have a meeting because we do not have enough of
them throughout the day. Sarcasm aside, we deem this a critical piece of successful SQL
(and other mission-critical workloads) deployments.
The structure of a CoE is straightforward. The CoE team consists of one or two
individuals from a respective technology to represent their team during a CoE meeting.
For example, the following teams would have representation during this meeting:
virtualization, DBA, networking, storage, security, and procurement, as depicted in
