March 19, 2010 at 9:27 pm
I need some clarity on Licencing on the CPU side:
- Dual/Quad core: this only counts as one...is this correct?
- If you have 2 SQL servers on one physical CPU does this count as one licence?
Thanks in advance, can't find the answers to these.
March 19, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Ser Tharg (3/19/2010)
I need some clarity on Licencing on the CPU side:- Dual/Quad core: this only counts as one...is this correct?
- If you have 2 SQL servers on one physical CPU does this count as one licence?
Thanks in advance, can't find the answers to these.
Dual/Quad core: one processor license per core. If you have 2 quad core processors - 2 processor licenses are needed.
For SQL Server 2005 and above, once you have the processors licensed - you can have as many instances as are allowed for that edition.
See this document: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/Special-Considerations.aspx#passive
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March 20, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Jeffrey Williams-493691 (3/19/2010)
Dual/Quad core: one processor license per core.
You mean one processor license per socket.
"For example, if you are using SQL Server Enterprise Edition on a four-processor server with quad-core processors, using all 16 (sixteen) cores (four cores x four processors), you will require only four processor licenses."
The rest of your post was quite correct, but I didn't want to leave that inconsistency unremarked 🙂
March 20, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Dang it - you are quite right. Per socket is what I thought I wrote...thanks.
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