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Power BI Report Server licensing via SQL EE SA
Dear All, Our prospective customer has SQL EE with SA. We want to take advantage of this to deploy PowerBI Report Server. Can we just install PowerBI Report Server on a new machine? Or does t...
It works just installing SSRS on a machine does currently with SQL customers. If you install Power BI Report Server on a machine with no current SQL installation, you be consuming those cores from your SQL EE+SA agreement and be required to have licenses for them. If you install it on the same machine as you currently have another SQL component installed on, then that machine has already been licensed and doesn't required net new cores to be purchased.
Hope that helps,
Chris
Chris, thanks, just to clarify - can I install Power BI Report Server on a SQL Machine which already has SSRS? Or would it conflict or attempt to perform the upgrade from SSRS to PBI Report Server?
Thanks
Tomasz
You can run it side by side, yes.