I think the key point in the article is that most of this was dictated to the SQL guys. This seems to be the way these are done. There is no benifit to SQL itself, but there is to the organization with respect to overall manageabilty. Problem I am currently having is that our VM guys think the VM server is fire and forget. We end up having performance problems and they do not monitor properly so we don't get any answers on solving the issues. The age old mantra of "optimize the SQL code" becomes the crutch for VM server mismanagement.