Deployment
Once Azure Arc ESUs are enabled for a virtual machine, patches can be automatically deployed as they’re released.
Physical-core (p-core) licenses
A physical-core license is the mechanism by which you tell Azure Arc to not focus on the virtual cores of a virtual machine, but instead to focus on the cores of the physical server because you want to license ESUs…
Enabling ESUs (Purchasing ESUs)
When you connect a SQL Server machine to Azure Arc, you can then enable Azure Arc ESUs for that machine. This is done within the Configuration panel within the machine’s Properties page, as shown below; the screenshot is taken from…
Licensing scenarios
Licensing ESUs by virtual core Let’s cover a couple of scenarios, where Maroon Balloons are running SQL Server in their own data center. They’ve licensed the SQL Server 2014 workloads appropriately, and are now interested in enabling ESUs for those…
Licensing model
Azure Arc ESUs are purchased in addition to the licenses that have already been purchased to license the SQL Server 2014 workloads themselves, which must be qualifying licenses. You can choose to license virtual machines, following the usual licensing model…
ESUs: Azure Arc
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…
Included use rights
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 – search on this page for “Disaster Recovery Benefit servers”. In addition, if you’ve got…
Deployment
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…