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Explore SQL Services and Server Types with MetrixData360

Name: Explore SQL Services and Server Types with MetrixData360
Uploaded: 2023-12-05T12:00:45+00:00
Duration: 1 min 9 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin explains how SQL Server licensing works across cloud providers. Unlike some Microsoft products, SQL Server has no restrictions on which…

5 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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Mike Austin explains how SQL Server licensing works across cloud providers. Unlike some Microsoft products, SQL Server has no restrictions on which clouds you can use. If you license all physical cores on a host with SQL Server Enterprise, you can run unlimited VMs on that host.

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Cloud mobility is, allows you to take your licenses and move them to a cloud provider. Right? So that could be Azure, could be aws, it could be a third party cloud provider. Now, server mobility and cloud mobility are in the product terms, okay? There are limitations, right? So you have to look and see if Microsoft restricts that cloud mobility to certain providers. Now, in SQL they don't, but with other products they say that you can use them in cloud providers except for aws, Google, Google, Alibaba and a couple of others. Right? So you have to watch those product terms to even know whether I can move the product with SQL to allow you to take it over. So this is, this is the concept that people call bring your own license. Right? So can I take my own licensing to the cloud? Right. And so the answer there is yes. Now, the reason that we're talking about private cloud on this slide is that if I license a host, all of the physical cores in a host with SQL Enterprise per core, I can have unlimited number of VMs on that host.