Included use rights
If you’ve paid for Azure Arc ESUs for production servers, then you can also use ESUs on disaster recovery servers. In addition, if you’ve got a dev/test server which is licensed through a product key obtained from a Visual Studio…
Resources: Flexible Virtualization Benefit
Online training If you are a High Schooler, or have access to the Dear Louise training sessions, then you can register for two training sessions that we ran in January 2025: Session 1 Dear Louise: Flexible Virtualization Benefit: Server training,…
Microsoft resources: License Mobility through SA
Here’s a list of License Mobility through SA resources from Microsoft all in one place. The rating column reflects our opinion of how useful the documents or websites are: DateResourceOverviewPagesRatingN/AProduct Terms websiteSeveral useful paragraphs for permitted use and requirements, along…
Microsoft resources: Flexible Virtualization Benefit
You can find Microsoft’s October 2022 overview article here, and a bit of information in the March 2023 Outsourcing Software Management Licensing Brief. However, our top pick for the most complete and useful resource is the November 2022 Flexible Virtualization…
Resources: Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit
Online training If you are a High Schooler, or have access to the Dear Louise training sessions, then you can register for the Dear Louise: Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit training which we ran in August 2024. It’s a 43-minute…
Microsoft resources: Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit
The main Learn page for the Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit is here, with useful pages on SQL IaaS extension registration options, how Azure applies centrally assigned licenses, and how to create a SQL Server License Assignment.
Availability of the benefit
The availability of the Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit is dependent on the type of Azure Subscription you have and is available to Enterprise Agreement customers and those with an MCA-E, but not for CSP customers. Customers who purchase through…
High Availability/Disaster Recovery servers
Naturally, some of the SQL Server workloads running within a Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit scope may be for High Availability/Disaster Recovery purposes, and as long as they’re configured for HA/DR they’re switched to a $0 meter and don’t consume…
How the benefit works
As an example, let’s imagine that Tangerine Truckers have the following SQL Server licenses available to be used with the Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit: They create a License Assignment with the scope of a single Subscription which has the…