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mehmet-vrp's avatar
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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Michael_Mertens's avatar
Michael_Mertens
Resolver I
5 years ago

Hi,

 

I don't think you may install the Report Server on a different machine than the SQL Server at all!

 

Regards

Michael

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d_gosbell
Super User
5 years ago
Michael_Mertens wrote:

I don't think you may install the Report Server on a different machine than the SQL Server at all!

 

You can install PBIRS and SQL on separate machines, it's just that both would have to have SQL licenses. So if you had a 4 core SQL Server and an 8 core PBIRS server you would need to purchase a 12 core license.