• We've got several virtual servers spread over various physical servers and one use is to replace old sql servers which are being gradually phased out e.g. the SQL2000 test server which we can't get rid of until the business decides whether to keep (migrate to 2005) or shelve the relevant applications.

    Moving to a virtual server rather than a new instance made the process seamless as the server name remained unaltered so no connections needed modifying and I believe some developers don't even know it's a VM!