We are looking at the costs of building a new SQL server. It will be a 2016 VM with 4 cores hosted on a VMWare host with Datacenter licensing. From what I've read, we would want to use the per core license for the 4 vCPU. I've looked on CDW and the 2 core packs for SQL 2017 are a lot cheaper our software vendor is quoting (SA not being qupte). Am I reading the licensing requirements wrong or is our vendor quoting us for the physical host which has 32 cores?
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SQL 2017 Licensing costs
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