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Anonymous wrote:
1) can you use the same key on a spearate install on a different server
You can use the same key, but it depends on how many cores you purchased and how many are used. So if you purchased 8 cores of SQL Enterprise with Software Assurance and only install SQL Server on a machine with 4 cores. Then you could install the remaining 4 cores of that license on another machine and install PBIRS on that. If however you are using all of the cores for your current license you would either have to install PBIRS on the same server as SQL Server or you would need to buy additional licenses (or reduce the number of cores on your SQL Server)
Anonymous wrote:
2) if not, can you install it on a current sql ent seever with other database already install or does it need to be separate and a fresh install.
PBIRS is basically a web application and it is a separate install from SQL Server. So you could install onto your existing server and then configure it to use the existing SQL instance for its databases.
Note that if you install both PBIRS and SQL on the same machine you will need to make sure that the resources on that machine are sufficient to run both applications. And you should configure the memory limits on SQL so that it leaves some memory for PBIRS (by default SQL Server will attempt to use as much memory as it can)
They are saying I need to buy a new sql ent licence and can't use the same sql server where we have already purchased SQL Ent core on an EA
- d_gosbell
Super User
Anonymous wrote:
They are saying I need to buy a new sql ent licence and can't use the same sql server where we have already purchased SQL Ent core on an EA
So from a licensing perspective I do not believe this is not correct. The SQL license allows you to run any of the SQL product family - the database engine. SSAS, SSIS, MDS, DQS or PBIRS on those cores.
But if the existing server is already heavily loaded and does not have the capacity in terms of available RAM and CPU then from a resourcing perspective then it is probably not possible to use the same server. And Ideally it is better not to mix workloads on the one server if you can, but for small departmental solutions you can sometimes get away with it.