December 4, 2017 at 1:54 pm
So we currently have a licensed 2014 Standard default instance on a machine. We were thinking about installing a named instance of 2017 to be a non-licensed failover only instance for a 2017 Enterprise AlwaysOn Availability Group. Wondering if this use case is thought out properly? Can we have a non-licensed 2017 Enterprise instance on the same machine with a licensed 2014 Standard if the intention of the 2017 instance is that it will only ever be active in case of a full failover of the AG(s), in which the other Enterprise server will at that point be completely inactive? This is a stop gap measure until we add a large fully licensed server later that will be more active/active.
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December 5, 2017 at 12:53 am
GoldenDBA - Monday, December 4, 2017 1:54 PMSo we currently have a licensed 2014 Standard default instance on a machine. We were thinking about installing a named instance of 2017 to be a non-licensed failover only instance for a 2017 Enterprise AlwaysOn Availability Group. Wondering if this use case is thought out properly? Can we have a non-licensed 2017 Enterprise instance on the same machine with a licensed 2014 Standard if the intention of the 2017 instance is that it will only ever be active in case of a full failover of the AG(s), in which the other Enterprise server will at that point be completely inactive? This is a stop gap measure until we add a large fully licensed server later that will be more active/active.
As with anything licensing, go speak to Microsoft directly or your software vendor, anything detailed on public forum is opinion only and may not be the case for your company.
Now with that said and reading the 2017 licensing guide (note "Guide") as long as you have valid Software Assurance for your 2017 Enterprise licenses then yes you should (note the italics, as it is only speculation not fact) be ok, but for a complete and concise answer go speak to Microsoft or your vendor, you may have special preferences and terms and conditions to your licenses that we as the public don't know about.
December 16, 2017 at 3:47 am
GoldenDBA - Monday, December 4, 2017 1:54 PMSo we currently have a licensed 2014 Standard default instance on a machine. We were thinking about installing a named instance of 2017 to be a non-licensed failover only instance for a 2017 Enterprise AlwaysOn Availability Group. Wondering if this use case is thought out properly? Can we have a non-licensed 2017 Enterprise instance on the same machine with a licensed 2014 Standard if the intention of the 2017 instance is that it will only ever be active in case of a full failover of the AG(s), in which the other Enterprise server will at that point be completely inactive? This is a stop gap measure until we add a large fully licensed server later that will be more active/active.
2017 Enterprise Edition on a machine which is going to participate in AG for failover?
May i know the server edition n version that is going to be active?
Regards,
Raj
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