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Licensing 2 processors SQL Server 2008 R2

  • July 19, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    #253947

    Hi Everybody, thanks for all supports, youre great!

    now the problem....

    I have a failover cluster 2008 with sql server 2008 Enterprise r2, and need to licensing it..

    this failover use 2 nodes Active/Passive (1 instance) so i need to only Licensing 1 node with SQL Server

    the netadmin said me than each node have 2 socket with 2 processors Intel Xeon x5660

    so i need to get a 2x "Per Processor" licencing for Enterprise

    but its costly, this is the only way i have (adquire 2 Licenses)? or i can put the sql server to use only one processor?

    regards

  • July 19, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    #1355099

    I would check with your microsoft rep. I believe you would only need 2 licenses because your in an active/passive cluster. However, it may require software assurance.

    Here is the SQL Server 2008 R2

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/7/0/270B6380-8B38-4268-8AD0-F480A139AB19/SQL2008R2_LicensingQuickReference-updated.pdf

    I don't believe there is a way to specify 1 processor and still comply with licencing. I haven't seen a setting like that since SQL 2000.

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