July 21, 2010 at 7:30 am
We have 2 different production servers but i am planing to bring them onto 1 single server with 2 instances keeping the same peroformance. Does it save me on liscense if i do so ?
July 21, 2010 at 8:10 am
Tara-1044200 (7/21/2010)
We have 2 different production servers but i am planing to bring them onto 1 single server with 2 instances keeping the same peroformance. Does it save me on liscense if i do so ?
It all depends on the Licensing Model as well as in the number of processors you can count before and after the consolidation.
You may want to check here... http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2005/en/us/licensing.aspx
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You don't have to pay for the separate instances on your new server, you will be licensed per CPU or per user (depending on your license mode).
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