February 11, 2011 at 9:23 am
Hi,
We have installed SQL Server 2008 R2 in a production server. One of the third party application needs run on SQL Server 2008 not compartible with SQL Server 2008 R2. If we install the SQL Server 2008 as named instance on the same server which is running SQL Server 2008 R2 then how licensing will work. Do we required to buy licenses for both SQL Server 2008 and SQL server 2008 R2 licenses or just having a higher version licenses is sufficient?
Please clarify if some one came across this kind of situation.
Regards
Hema.,
Regards
Hema.,
February 11, 2011 at 10:18 am
There are many licencing models.
Is this to be per processor based licensing?
Do you operate under any sort of volume licensing contract?
All companies I've worked for to date have been able to run under single version license which covered all older versions. You'll just need to bare in mind the number of physical CPU's involved or number of concurrent connections.
February 11, 2011 at 10:33 am
I'd check with your license provider rather than make a guess at it.
Generally speaking the license covers previous version of the software, but the wording is:
Deploy SQL Server 2008, 2005, or 2000
in place of currently-licensed version (per
terms of Retail Software License Terms/
PUR)
in this document, which could be interpreted as you're not allowed to run R2 and previous versions on the same machine, but I'm not sure and enterprise agreements are likely different.
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