What SQL SERVER LICENCE should we buy for this achitecture.

• Jai-448139

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  August 7, 2007 at 10:23 pm

  #92575

  What type of licence should we buy among the list below

  1.SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 Win32 English MVL 1 Processor License

  2.SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 Win32 English MVL

  3.SQL CAL 2005 English MVL User CAL

  4.SQL CAL 2005 English MVL Device CAL

  5.SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 Win32 English MVL 1 Processor License

  6.SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 Win32 English MVL

  7.SQL Server Wrkgroup Edtn 2005 Win32 English MVL 1 Processor License

  8.SQL Server Wrkgroup Edtn 2005 Win32 English MVL 5 Clt

  9.SQL Workgroup CAL 2005 Win32 English MVL User CAL

  10.SQL Workgroupx CAL 2005 Win32 English MVL Device CAL

  11.SQL Svr Developer Edtn 2005 Win32 X64/IA64 English MVL

  our environment is

  SERVER1,SERVER2,SERVER3 AND SERVER4-DMZ for DEV,QA,TRG AND DR

  The servers are coming with the latest version of VMware starter license according to the no of cpu for each server with 2 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 2.66ghz with minimum 16gb memory and minimum 6 * 146 GB HDD.

  Server1 will be partitioned into 5 logical servers

  DEV-tranweb,QA- Tranweb, TRG- TranWeb, DR-TranWeb & compiler/sourcecode hosts 

  Server2 will be partitioned into 5 logical servers

  DEV-tranApp,QA- tranApp, TRG- tranApp,DR-tranApp and FP/BugTrack host.

  Server3 will be partitioned into 5 logical servers

  DEV-tranDB,QA- tranDB, TRG- tranDB,DR-tranDB and AD

  SERVER4-DMZ will be partitioned into 9 logical servers

  The OS for the servers are Windows 2003 advance server OS with SAN Connectivity.this is the achitecture. Please suggest the best licence to buy for this achitecture.

  Appreciate your response

  Thanks

   

• Lynn Pettis

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  August 8, 2007 at 9:04 am

  #725462

  Here is my suggestion, contact Microsoft.  With the configuration you listed, you may be able use the Developer Edition for your Development, QA, and Training servers, and then use the Enterprise Edition on your production servers.