I've been talking about it for awhile, but it's finally here - my update of the old SQL Server 2000 consolidation whitepaper. It just went live less than an hour ago.

The basic info including the link to the download of the Word document can be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692366.aspx

or you can just download the Word doc from http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/B/D/DBDE7972-1EB9-470A-BA18-58849DB3EB3B/SQLServer2008Consolidation.docx.

I hope you find it useful!