March 9, 2015 at 4:15 am
I am confused by latest Microsoft Virtual server licence for SQL Server 2008.
We have a Hyper-V host running Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter. Displayed in its Task Manager, it has 16 cores and 32 logical processors (with hyper-threading turned on). A SQL Server VM is running on this host with 10 Virtual processors (showing from Hper-V Manager). The SQL Server edition is SQL Server 2008 Standard.
We are using "Per Core Licensing Model". Now, the question is how many licences we need to purchase for the above SQL Server?
There are "SQL Server 2008 Licensing Guide", "Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Virtualization Licensing Guide" and "Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Licensing Guide". But none of them covers this scenario, which is running SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2012 Hyper-V host Server.
Could you please provide me your opinion: Should I license 10 cores for the SQL Server VM or license 5 cores (because the hyper-threading on physical server) ? Thank you very much in advance!
March 9, 2015 at 4:43 am
You have to buy 10 core licenses. Problem is, SQL Server 2008 is not sold any more, so you can buy licenses for 2014 and use them to cover your SQL Server 2008 installation.
-- Gianluca Sartori
March 11, 2015 at 8:49 am
Thanks, spaghettidba. Can't find any more info on this. It looks we have to license 10 cores.
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