Quick Question Regarding Per Core Licensing SQL Server Standard:
Hardware to be installed on is 16 core total available to the Hyper Visor. 4 Cores will be provided to Windows Server 2016 supplying SQL Services. Does SQL Server Standard need to license all 16 cores? Even if it will never use more than 4 cores unless the time comes I upgrade another 2 core license?
If so I will probably need smaller servers instead of one larger server hosting all VM's:
only using 4 cores but paying almost 2000 x 8 for each x2 core license seems overkill for something I do not need. :-(