Hi,
In some of the sites where I work the server usage is changing at the moment somewhat due to the main mission critical MS SQL Server Instance and DB being migrated to a cloud hosted service, so that is now out of our hands. However each site also has a number of critical, but small, databases that need to still run and be present. Before the main DB went to cloud, some of these smaller DBs/instances would be on the same SQL Server as the main DB, some would be in their own instance, some would be in the instance of the main DB. Then there would again be some DBs on yet other virtual servers.
What I was hoping to do is it gather up all these smaller DBs and put them all on one dedicated 2012 R2 server, who's purpose would be to host the various required MS SQL instances and databases. The issue with this is that they mostly come from...