We are at a juncture where we want to consolidate sharepoint farm scattered across multiple locations (WAN). I have read the capacity planer for sharepoint. But I couldn't get a way to find which Service Application on my SP Farm is getting heavily utilized. Is there a way we can find the usage of a Service application ? And do we need to move this service app to a dedicated server ?

Please ask your question in the SharePoint 2010 forum and not in this pre-SharePoint 2010 forum. SharePoint 2010 - General Questions and Answers http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010general/threads SharePoint 2010 - Setup, Upgrade,Administration and Operation http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/threads SharePoint 2010 - Using SharePoint Designer, Infopath, and other customization http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010customization/threads SharePoint 2010 - Using Visual Studio with SharePoint and other programming http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010programming/threadsDirk Van den Berghe