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PowerBI Report Server Costs
In our world...the EE server installation is like the living room that one can view but not uttilize (White carpet and all) Therefore, our reporting server is on another installation that gets day old data for reporting or second tier application storage...so my hope, dream, goal, etc is the Reporting Server Installation can exist just on another licenesed corporate location. (All that said: There are ZERO costs with EE? Must it be the current version or does it start at 20xx?)
There is a minimum version for running Power BI Report Server but my understanding is that as long as you own a version of EE that has SA that you can run Power BI Report Server. As for the same box or a different box, I don't have the answer to that question. I could argue it both ways but someone from Microsoft is going to have to chime in here.
Great points...thanks for the knowlege...Anyone from Microsoft willing to respond? (Bueller? Bueller?)
You need to have available cores with your SQL agreement available, but if you do, then you can install it on a machine or machine(s) with those number of cores. So it isnt free - your company needs an active agreement in place and the number of cores available. Microsoft usually goes through each year with Enterprise customers and does a “true-up” where it’ll count the cores in use. If you have more cores in use than in your agreement, your company pays the difference.
Chris
