• First thing for you to do is to understand what is management asking you to do.

    My wild guess is that you have several SQL Server boxes in your shop and somebody has the brilliant idea of "consolidating" all or some of them in a smaller number of servers. Do you get the idea?

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.