

AZURE INSTALL SQL SERVER 2014 WINDOWS
As a note of clarification, by volume we refer to the disk volume as identified by Windows File system APIs.This knob is meant to calibrate the resource governor feature for your storage subsystem. Ability to configure the maximum outstanding IO per volume (at instance scope).See syntax details for Create and Alter resource pool with IO support. Resource Pools now support configuration of minimum and maximum IOPS per volume in addition to CPU/Memory settings enabling more comprehensive resource isolation controls.

In SQL Server 2014, we are excited to add support for IO resource governance. Since then, we’ve been incrementally enhancing this feature in major releases to address the top customer requests in this area. It enables customers to implement database consolidation or to configure their own database as a service. Resource Governor was introduced in SQL Server 2008 to achieve predictable performance in a multi-tenant environment, to support mixed workload patterns, to provide mechanisms and tools to deal with runaway queries, and to enforce resource limits for CPU and memory.
