This Guide is a companion to How to Guide: Consolidating multiple SQL Server systems onto Dell PowerEdge Servers using Microsoft’s Hyper-V. That guide provides general virtualization and consolidation concepts, and demonstrates the setup and basic configuration of the Dell PowerEdge R900 or PowerEdge R905 server. Building on that base, this Guide adds the techniques you need to successfully consolidate your Microsoft SQL Server 2008 databases from multiple machines onto a single Windows Server 2008 server system using Microsoft’s Hyper-V. In this Guide, we use the Dell PowerEdge R900 and PowerEdge R905 as target servers.