So we just got a giant new SAN and a giant new dedicated SQL Server. We have a ton of smaller SQL Server instances set up all over on various machines that we're now going to be able to consolidate.
Generally, all of the servers thus far have been set up very simply: the primary filegroup, an MDB on the data drive, and the LDB on the log drive. But now that I'll finally have a machine with plenty of cores and plenty of partitioned disks, I'd like to make sure I'm going to maximize my performance.
I've already done plenty of research on the tempdb split from Paul Randal's articles, but I'm not entirely sure how to go about properly splitting the data files for our other databases, if I should at all. These databases are currently just one file, so I'm also not sure what the best way to backup then restore and split to multiple files would be.
I've been trying to google this, but its very difficult since mostly tempdb articles come up. If anyone has any input, advice, or links to articles, I'd appreciate it.