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Azure Arc extends the Azure platform beyond Azure itself to allow you to manage resources outside of Azure using the Azure services. Azure Arc-enabled servers specifically focus on managing Windows and Linux physical servers and virtual machines hosted outside of…

If you’ve paid for 1-year ESUs for production servers, then you can also use the ESU software on disaster recovery servers without acquiring additional licenses. In addition, if you’ve got a dev/test server which is licensed through a product key…

When customers have purchased 1-year Extended Security Updates licenses they need to make their servers known to Azure Arc to receive the updates. They can either connect their servers if they want them to be managed by Azure Arc, or…

The price of a 1-year ESU Core license is equivalent to the price of a regular SQL Server Core license without Software Assurance. When you look on a price list at the ESU SKU descriptions you see that they’re available…

Licensing with 1-year ESUs Let’s cover a couple of scenarios, where Maroon Balloons are running SQL Server in their own data center. You can see that they’ve got a server with 8 x 8-core processors. There are lots of virtual…

ESU licenses are purchased in addition to the licenses that have already been purchased to license the SQL Server 2012 workloads themselves, which must be qualifying licenses. ESUs follow the usual licensing model for SQL Server licenses: they are Core…

The 1-year ESU licenses are the traditional way of purchasing Extended Security Updates and have historically only been available through the Enterprise Agreement. For SQL Server 2012 you won’t find them on the public EA price list, but you can…

Partners typically offer customers two types of solutions for running SQL Server workloads on their infrastructure. One type of solution is focused on the partners providing the hardware and the customers bringing their own licenses and having a hand in…

Customers who have qualifying licenses for their on-premises workloads may purchase and deploy either the 1-year or the Azure Arc ESUs.

Customers can choose to run SQL Server 2012 workloads on their own on-premises servers, on a variety of partner solutions, or in Azure. The SQL Server workloads are licensed in the usual way, and then if customers want these out-of-support…