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Is Software Assurance required for PBIRS?
Here's an extract from the licensing terms:
4.6 Use of Power BI Report Server – SQL Server Enterprise Edition
Customer may run Power BI Report Server software on the Licensed Server. Customer may run the software on a maximum numbers of cores equal to the number of SQL Server Enterprise Edition Core Licenses with active SA assigned to that Server, subject to a minimum of four cores per OSE. Use is additionally subject to the applicable terms of Customer’s volume license agreement. A Power BI Pro User SL is required to publish shared Power BI reports using the Power BI Report Server. This right expires upon expiration of Customer’s SA coverage.
The term was taken from the Volume Licensing Product Terms (official Microsoft document). You can download a copy here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/products.aspx
Download the doc and search for section 4.6.
Hope this helps.
Here's an extract from the licensing terms:
4.6 Use of Power BI Report Server – SQL Server Enterprise Edition
Customer may run Power BI Report Server software on the Licensed Server. Customer may run the software on a maximum numbers of cores equal to the number of SQL Server Enterprise Edition Core Licenses with active SA assigned to that Server, subject to a minimum of four cores per OSE. Use is additionally subject to the applicable terms of Customer’s volume license agreement. A Power BI Pro User SL is required to publish shared Power BI reports using the Power BI Report Server. This right expires upon expiration of Customer’s SA coverage.
The term was taken from the Volume Licensing Product Terms (official Microsoft document). You can download a copy here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/products.aspx
Download the doc and search for section 4.6.
Hope this helps.
Hi there, I undestand SA is required. We have SQL Ent with SA for 16 core so we installed SQL on 2 servers each 8 core. So we are good on SQL. I understand we have the right to download Power BI and install but question is if we can install this on a separate server where I have not installed SQL server and that has 8 cores. Are we forced to to install the PowerBI report server on the above 2 servers only (where we installed SQL servers)?