How about getting a dedicated server to run and manage SQL jobs

Hi all:

Give me some feedback.

In my company, we have 10+ sql servers and many sql jobs running on every SQl server.

What about the idea that running all jobs on a dedicated sql servers?

at least 2 advantages

1.easy to managment

2.if agent server down, we restart the server not to impact the downtime of the production server.

any suggestion is welcome.

We had a similar setup which worked well.
Basically had big machines for SQL server and then used blades for "distributed" SSIS jobs.
All you really need is fast procs, lots of memory and not much disk space.
The idea was that as one box would become loaded, we would introduce another. All boxes would have the same jobs on it, but some disabled. The packages were run from a network location so should a box die, we can switch over quite quickly.

The issues are:
Licensing
Network performance
Cost

But if those are not a problem, it is a nice solution.