Thanks. Yes, that is why I leave 20%.   I was always told to leave 20% for temp stuff and/or performance.

I ways always taught to take the 80% of  the drive...

Thanks all.

Thanks!  It was a thought.  We decided to remove the DR for now.  I will rearchitect it correctly and move it back into the node after doing the due diligence...

Thank you!

Yes sir.  That is why I am trying to plan this out.

This could turn into a 7 hour job.  I wanted to try to avoid the downtime.

I am thinking of...

Thanks Johan.  No, I already had that.  I just didn't want to have to move the database out of the AG again.  It is about 8 TB. Then, when I...

Thanks everyone.  I appreciate your responses and the various perspectives.  It is very helpful.  There is always something new to learn.

That is a good idea.  I can do that.  Thanks.

Thanks for that both of you.

1.  I had tried the FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER.  But I got an error message.

Msg 15006, Level 16, State 5, Line 1

'domain\BIDevelopers' is not a valid...

I do appreciate all of the feedback.  However, you are fussing at the DBA who is the low man on the totem pole.  AVPs and managers have already made the...

Oh my goodness thank you.

I have been trying various things to no end.  I tried the snap in, but you outlined more steps.

Thank you so much.  I am trying it...

Great information.

During patching, both servers are in the same group to be rebooted.  We never thought about separating the servers that are involved in an AG and then insuring the...

Thanks, but I was afraid of that.

We have over 30 servers that have critical alerts implemented.  That would be disabling six alerts per server.

That is a lot to do each...

We have SentryOne.  I have created a maintenance window within SentryOne.

But this is native SQL Server alerts.  I'm not sure how to create a maintenance window for those.

Jeff / Eddy,

I really appreciate the feedback and replies.  I've seen that most of our databases have LOB data.

I am preparing to talk to my manager about your suggestions.  Here...