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nimal_thenuwara
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5 years ago

Power BI Report Server license

If I want to have a PBI Report Server install on a server (called “Server_C”)  with SQL Standard Edition and use SQL Enterprise edition license from another server that we have (Called “Server_D”)? ...
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5 years ago
nimal_thenuwara wrote:

If I want to have a PBI Report Server install on a server (called “Server_C”)  with SQL Standard Edition and use SQL Enterprise edition license from another server that we have (Called “Server_D”)?

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Unfortunately that is not valid. There are 2 ways of licensing Power BI Report Server.

 

1. You can buy premium capacity. Then you are entitled to install the same number of cores on-prem for Report Server as you have purchased in premium capacity. So if you have purchase 8 cores of premium you could have 1 x 8 core server or 2 x 4 core servers (or event 4 x 2 core servers)

 

2. The other way is to purchase SQL Server Enterprise with Software Assurance. In this case the cores you run Report Server on need to be covered by a SQL Enterprise license.