Hello All,
We are doing a big infrastructure project and I am trying to get the idea of a central database server setup. I am faced with some opposition such as I am brave for thinking we could do this. Right now we have three mission critical databases with a few that are more utility than mission critical. All of them were created by a vendor and I have not gotten any indication from them that running them on a separate database server would cause any issues. The way I was thinking was to create a VM and have SQL Server 2012 installed. We would then run all of the databases on this VM. I understand the concern that if there were issues we would end up with more than 1 system down. So how many databases have you ran in a single instance (or on a single server)? I wouldn't necessarily need a single instance for this, it could be an...