Im looking for advice/guidance regarding recommended Sql Server configuration. We currently are running Sql Server 2008 R2 on a Physical server. We have 20 databases on a single instance. I never put much consideration into optimizing our Sql Server configuration when setting this up and it has gradually grown to what we have now. It has been running fine, with no performance issues. However, I'm sure there is a limit to how large it should grow. We recently installed a security system which is recording and logging video. This system is its own physical set of servers running SQL Server Express because we feared adding it to our existing SQL Server. This security system is the catalyst for us to design a proper Sql Server infrastructure.
Some of our databases should be highly available... while most others do not need to be. Here is where the question start to flow...Do set up separate servers, with one HA and the other not? We have a boot to SAN Hyper-V cluster in place with Exchange and a dozen or so other servers. Do I add Sql Server to that cluster or set up another hyper-V cluster?
That should be enough questions for now.
thanks
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