Hi. I want to setup a federated database servers for a
production environment. What i already have are 4X dual
cpu machines (each machine equipped 4 GB memory and 200 GB
(RAID5) storage). The operating systems is Windows 2003
Standard Edition and database is SQL Server 2000
Enterprise edition. Anyone out there who can give me
guidance?

You need to be a bit more specific about what you meant
by 'deferated database servers'. That's a loaded term. It
also helps to describe what you want to accomplish.

Are you referring to distributing data using SQL2000
Distributed Partitioned Views?

Linchi

The question I will ask is why do you think you need
federated servers? What are you trying to achieve?