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mehmet-vrp
Frequent Visitor
5 years ago

Report Server Licensing - Core count limitation

Hi all,   Suppose we have Enterprise SQL Server with Software Assurance to use Power BI Report Server. Could the cores count of the Power BI Report Server be more than the core number of the SQL Se...
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HashamNiaz
Solution Sage
5 years ago

Hi mehmet-vrp !

This is something interesting. Usually you buy SQL Server License for the allocated cores, Software Assuanrance come up with addiotnal benifts which also includes, PBI Report Server License key.

 

You PBI Report Server Installtion can be on different server machine, but the specification if i remember says you need to buy for the cores where you will be running PBI Report Server. I will post that documentation here as well.

 

So, you can't have a PBI Report Server with 64 cores, and buy a SQL Server Licenser for 8 cores.

 

Regards,

Hasham