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best practice to save money ?<br />
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I have a ERP systems that i want to install SQL 2012 and what to buy the licenses most efficiently, there is about 25 users of the system in a company of about 130 ppl so I can not imagine the load would be to bad <br />
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so : enterprise sql 2012 &nbsp;for 4 CPU ? and configure it virtually to use 2vCPU for the guest os to use ?<br />
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and then I could have a failover server with 2vPU on another phycial ESXi server <br />
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am I missing something ?
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best practice to save money ?

I have a ERP systems that i want to install SQL 2012 and what to buy the licenses most efficiently, there is about 25 users of the system in a company of about 130 ppl so I can not imagine the load would be to bad 

so : enterprise sql 2012  for 4 CPU ? and configure it virtually to use 2vCPU for the guest os to use ?

and then I could have a failover server with 2vPU on another phycial ESXi server 

am I missing something ?

SQL on ESXi 5.0 license issue

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008

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VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.