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Licensing a virtual machine with SQL Enterprise core based license and SA
Algon wrote:
However, I explained this to our licensing supplier and their response from Microsoft on this is question is:
"The Power BI report server can be installed on a separate VM to the one that's been licensed for Enterprise edition as long as the separate VM is located on the same host (this is even when licensing per VM only)".
Does this sound correct to you?
No it does not sound right to me. At the end of the day the cores that Power BI Report Server runs on have to be covered by a license. Either you can license the whole host and any VMs on that host are covered. Or you could license per VM based on the number of vCPUs. I've never heard of anything like this where a license in one VM somehow covers products in a separate VM - this sounds wrong to me.
This is my thinking also. I'll go back to them anyway :/. Thanks again for your help on this.
Algon wrote:
However, I explained this to our licensing supplier and their response from Microsoft on this is question is:
"The Power BI report server can be installed on a separate VM to the one that's been licensed for Enterprise edition as long as the separate VM is located on the same host (this is even when licensing per VM only)".
Does this sound correct to you?
No it does not sound right to me. At the end of the day the cores that Power BI Report Server runs on have to be covered by a license. Either you can license the whole host and any VMs on that host are covered. Or you could license per VM based on the number of vCPUs. I've never heard of anything like this where a license in one VM somehow covers products in a separate VM - this sounds wrong to me.
This is my thinking also. I'll go back to them anyway :/. Thanks again for your help on this.