This might be a stupid question and I might already know the answer, but thought I would ask it anyway. We have our sql servers on blades and are thinking about setting up replication for reporting purposes from our main OLTP server to an OLAP server. Right now the 2 servers are on separate controllers on the blade. Thinking about this and the processing of transactional replication we are thinking that this might cause a lot of network I/O slow down. One of our thoughts on a possible solution is to create a separate 2nd nick card on the 2 virtual servers that would serve as the sole traffic area for the replication.
Can you specify which port/ip address replication runs off of vs the regular sql server agent? Or does it all just run from the SQL Server Agent itself.
Let me know if that was totally confusing.
Thanks in advance for your help.