SQL Server 2022 Standard and Enterprise licenses include the usual downgrade rights to previous versions. However, there have been a whole host of different editions of SQL Server over the ages which makes the down-edition rights an interesting read. Essentially,…
SQL Server 2022 can be configured so that if one server fails, its processing will be picked up, recovered, and continued by another server. A failover server runs SQL Server and synchronizes with the primary server to maintain the failover…
All of the servers in the server farm below have been licensed for unlimited virtualization – so every physical core has been assigned a SQL Server 2022 Enterprise Core license with Software Assurance. This means that an unlimited number of…
The rules for licensing across a server farm with SQL Server 2022 Standard and Enterprise Core licenses are the same. If you choose to license at the virtual machine level, then you must purchase licenses with Software Assurance which means…
The diagram below shows a server farm consisting of 3 physical servers and currently there are 2 virtual machines running SQL Server 2022 on the first physical server. 2 Server licenses have been assigned to that server to allow the…
Let’s take a look at the considerations for licensing SQL Server 2022 in a server farm.
SQL Server 2022 can be deployed on Linux and Docker platforms. This allows customers to not only choose their platform, but also to deploy SQL Server 2022 in containers using Docker container technology. The rules for licensing SQL Server 2022…
So far, when we looked at licensing virtual machines with Core licenses we’ve assumed that there’s a one-to-one relationship between the physical cores and the virtual cores. However, you can configure a virtual machine so that a physical core supports…
The final part of virtualization licensing to consider is that of licensing for unlimited virtualization, which is only available for the Enterprise edition. The rules are simple: if you license a physical server completely with Enterprise Core licenses with Software…
With SQL Server 2022 Enterprise there is additional flexibility in licensing a virtualized environment. If you license the physical server completely following the usual per Core licensing rules, then you can run SQL Server 2022 in a virtual machine for…