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…
Let’s take a similar example to the one in the previous section to see how the Per Core licensing model works in a virtual environment. The diagram below is again a physical server with 2 virtual machines running SQL Server…
If SQL Server 2022 Standard is licensed with the Server/CAL model, then you follow the same rules as you would for licensing separate physical servers. Look at the diagram below: it shows a physical server and then 4 virtual machines,…
In this section we’ll look at how the different editions of SQL Server 2022 are licensed in a virtual infrastructure. There are different rules dependent on the edition of SQL Server 2022 – you either focus at the individual virtual…
There are no External Connector licenses available for SQL Server 2022. If a customer has chosen to license with the Server/CAL model, then they must buy CALs for external users and this does become expensive when there are many external…
The second licensing model used with SQL Server 2022 is the Per Core licensing model. You can choose to license SQL Server 2022 Standard edition with Core licenses if you wish, but for the Enterprise edition it’s the only option.…
SQL Server 2022 has a number of different components, such as Reporting Services and Integration Services, which may be run on different physical servers. Note that if you choose to deploy SQL Server 2022 in this way, then each physical…
While we’re talking about the Server/CAL licensing model it’s a good moment to consider the notion of multiplexing. Multiplexing is probably most easily explained with an example. Imagine that you have a server which runs a line of business application…
In the Server/CAL licensing model a SQL Server 2022 Standard Server license is assigned to the server allowing any number of installations (also called instances) of SQL Server to run in the Physical Operating System Environment. Users or devices are…
There are two licensing models that are used to license the Standard and Enterprise editions of SQL Server 2022 – the Server/CAL model and the Per Core model. You can choose either model if you’re deploying the Standard edition, whereas…