Hello spiceheads,
I just setup a new Dell VRTX with 2 hosts, running VMware Essentials Plus. I am virtualizing our environment of several physical server onto these hosts. The cluster has high availabilit enabled.
My issue is that my database server was OEM SQL Standard 2008 R2, purchased with the physical hardware from Dell, so I need to purchase new licensing. The new VM housing the database will be 4 cores, but also hosts a database for a public web portal with an unpredictable number is potential users or devices accessing it, so I think per-core licesning is the way to go.
My question is, can I get 4-cores worth of MSSQL Server Standard 2016 licesningwithout software assurance? I thought that so long as the server isn't moved to different hardware more than 1 time every 90 or something days that it would be in compliance.
Is this...