what is the best practice to recommend a new server ?
scenario: currentlt we have prod box 2003 windows and 2005 sql server. our plan is to upgrade it to windows 2012 and sql server 2012, my responsibilty is to suggest things like disk space and partitions, cpu, memory, virtual or physical box etc...considering present statistics of current prod box
what information do i need to collect from the current server?
can someone help me in this how to startup and document this recommendations
Thanks in advance!