We are in the process of consolidating several SQL Server on a single SQL Server 2012 failover cluster.
Our initial set up include:
- 1 SQL Server 2005 with a datawarehouse
- 1 SQL Server 2008 running an insurance database
- 1 SQL Server 2008 R2 running an accounting database
- 1 SQL Server 2005 Express running Octopus (Tool to manage technical incidents and service requests )
- 1SQL Server 2008 R2 running a print server database on a print server
As there is continuous development on this database and the development team for the insurance database is a team from a consultant company outside from our site, I was tempted to put this database on a separate instance.
Otherwise, databases are relatively small and there are not that many transactions .
Is it possible to split these databases on multiple instances a on the SQL Server 2012 failover cluster?
Is there a benefit to split these databases on multiple instances?
What are the best practices?
SylvieP
