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Moving one TempdB on 3 instance server

I have a large virtualized SQL Server (Full 2008R2). I run 3 SQL instances and would like to relocate the TempdB database file to another location, splitting off from the TempdB log file. The trouble ...
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Splitting TempDB into multiples files equal to number of CPUs

The article SQL Server tempdb Best Practices Increase Performance suggests that I should split tempdb into a number of files equal to the number of cores. So for 4 cores you get 4 files. By ...
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Should a SQL Server TempDB space be allowed to be reclaimed?

If I don't have space concerns at the moment, should I size my TempDB as a large space initially and not let it's space be reclaimed? What's the best way determine what the optimal initial size for ...
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Safely moving and creating new tempdb files

Two things I'd like to know, how do you safely move tempdb with minimal downtime? Also, how do you create new tempdb files? Is it 1 per core? So quad-core = 4 tempdb files, creating three new ones?
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SQL Server 2008 R2 - Set tempDB size on full disk

One of my SQL Server 2008 R2 instances had a job that went mad last night, ended up with the job auto-growing tempDB until it ran out of disk space. To compound the issue I noticed that tempDB is ...