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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Enabling the benefit

The Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit relies on Azure being able to see where SQL Server is running so that you know how many licenses are required to cover all of your resources. Sometimes Azure can’t detect SQL Server running…

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Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit

Microsoft announced the general availability of the Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server in April 2023. Like the regular Azure Hybrid Benefit it allows customers to bring their licenses to Azure to license the SQL Server part of…

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Dev/Test Subscriptions

An Azure Subscription is a container to which Azure resources are assigned as they are created. There are different Subscription types associated with the ways that a customer buys – an Azure Subscription for CSP is different to the one…

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