I'm setting up a new SQL server and am following Brent Ozar's SQL Server Setup Guide. I'm having trouble with setting / verifying that IFI is enabled and working.
The server is a VM, the only VM on the host at the moment. Windows Server 2012, SQL 2014, 128GB RAM, Data drive for database is on SSD. The server is on a domain.
Following Brent's excellent guide from his site (http://www.brentozar.com/),section 6.4 of the guide, you grow the database and according to the guide it should happen instantly. The database default is 4MB and when I grow it to 5GB it takes 25 seconds. I wouldn't consider that instantly. Does this mean IFI is not working?
In section 5.2 it says to"Grant 'Perform Volume Maintenance Tasks' right to the account that will be used for the SQL service, the engine not the agent." and here is where I believe my trouble lies....