power BI report server licensing inquiry
Hello, all. I have a question regarding the report server and the licensing. I would appreciate if you can answer them. Q1) my company owns a SQL server 2104 Enterprise Edition and want to establish a PBIRS(Power BI Report Server). Do we need to buy additional license(pro, premium, etc) to operate the PBIRS? Q2) Can we manage the PBIRS and SQL server seperately? Thank you in advance. Randy Choi
PBIRS License through SQL EE+SA [SQL EE & PBIRS in different server]
We have SQL server EE with SA. Currently we have one of the leading BI solution because when we started using it, PBI was only on cloud. Now we are in the process of evaluating an alternate solution for another set of users in our prganization; so, with the on-prem availability we felt PBI would be better option as it would come free along with SQL EE+SA All said and done, we are stuck because there are different understanding in our organization about powerBI licensing terms. Hence I would like to put my questions here to get better understanding. Please confirm: if both PowerBI and SQL server EE can be installed in 2 different physical servers with the same license; [Implicit information was available here] Once the above is confirmed use equal cores that is licensed for SQL server [for eg: if the SQL server EE+ SA license is 14 cores and powerBI can be configured with 14 cores ] ; [Found this; click here]; Please confirm If there are additional options and we have not considered it, please feel free to share them with us. We would be grateful and highly appreciate if we could get an accurate & explicit answer.