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Licensing question

  • October 20, 2016 at 4:03 am

    #313986

    Hi

    I have a licensing question. With all the changes I just need to clear up this issue that I was asked.

    If you buy a 8 Core Enterprise edition for example and you need to use both SSAS and SQL server, you do not want to use them on the same VM or same physical server. What are the licensing implications. Can you install one VM/standalone server with 8 cores for SQL Server, and then another VM/standalone server with 8 cores, Someone told me as you are using only SSAS on the one server and only SQL server on the other they can share the license. I am not really believing this As I understand licensing it's about if there is a process queries it, so my thoughts around this would be that you would need to split the cores as well, so you would be licensed for 4 cores on the the SQL Server and 4 Cores on the SSAS server.

    Please advise what the actual situation is.

  • October 20, 2016 at 4:09 am

    #1907594

    If SSAS is on one server and SQL on another, both servers need to be licensed, you can't use the same license for the two servers. If you split the license to 4 cores on one server and 4 cores on the other, then the machine must only have 4 cores visible to Windows (you must license all visible cores)

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • October 20, 2016 at 4:13 am

    #1907600

    Thanks, I thought it would be like that. Thanks for the confirmation

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