topic Report Server Licensing - Core count limitation in Report Server

Report Server Licensing - Core count limitation

mehmet-vrp — Fri, 28 May 2021 14:54:13 GMT

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 Server license it is associated with?

Can the core count of PBI Report Server ( 8-cores) be different than the core count of Enterprise SQL Server license (4-cores) ?

Can the core counts of these server be independent of each other?

Re: Report Server Licensing - Core count limitation

HashamNiaz — Sat, 29 May 2021 06:20:34 GMT

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

Re: Report Server Licensing - Core count limitation

Michael_Mertens — Sat, 29 May 2021 09:37:28 GMT

Hi,

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

Regards

Michael

Re: Report Server Licensing - Core count limitation

d_gosbell — Sun, 30 May 2021 22:57:53 GMT

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.