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Hypothetically speaking you have two (2) virtualized Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard edition servers running in a VMware ESX 4.1 environment. Their are 12 virtualization hosts with 2 physical CPUs ...

So, my client and their subcontractor(s) have found themselves in a bit of a pickle, as no one bothered to spec or price a DB for a software implementation, so now I've been handed the bag. The client ...