Kevin,

Thanks! As for your recommendations... I am all over #1, so have that under control. I didn't know #2, so now need to find out how to deal...

I did read that, thanks! He basically doesn't seem to have any gotchas at all, or mention benchmarking, or anything... that is the sort of stuff I am looking...

OK... so I guess my concern is more with index fragmentation then, not disk. I was also told that in a thin-provisioned sql environment, this also meant that...

It is my understanding that this needed to be done separately in 2005, but is native to 2008. Did they have any more specifics for their request?

Alrighty, thanks! -Also, I just found here that it can't actually be done:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281953(v=SQL.100).aspx