Hi!
We are setting up a Sharepoint server in our production environment and one in our test environment. The people installing the sharepoint servers recommend that we have a dedicated SQL server in production and an dedicated instance in test. I can understand
the reason for a separate instance since sharepoint creates a lot of databases and for security but is it really necessary to have a dedicated server in production? We currently have a license that we can add 4 cores to our production server to a total of
8 cores.These 4 cores is what is recomended for the dedicated production server.
I can see the arguments about lesser disk IO, better performance and "Best practices" for the dedicated server, but I feel that a separate instance will give almost the same IO and performance as a separate server.
Anyone having recommendations for this setup?