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Two hosts, each running VMware vSphere 5.5 Essentials Plus Kit.<br />
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One VM running Server 2012r2 with a Server 2012 MSSQL server.<br />
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Using the High Availability feature in Essentials Plus, where if the host server running the VM fails, the second host server picks up running the VM (there is a SAN, of course), does the SQL Server require an Enterprise license or is a standard 4-core license ok in this scenario?<br />
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(Talking about the core licenses, not the per-user licenses.)<br />
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Thanks.
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Two hosts, each running VMware vSphere 5.5 Essentials Plus Kit.

One VM running Server 2012r2 with a Server 2012 MSSQL server.

Using the High Availability feature in Essentials Plus, where if the host server running the VM fails, the second host server picks up running the VM (there is a SAN, of course), does the SQL Server require an Enterprise license or is a standard 4-core license ok in this scenario?

(Talking about the core licenses, not the per-user licenses.)

Thanks.

SQL Server Licensing on a VMware vSphere 5.5 Essentials Plus Kit setup

Microsoft SQL Server is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.SQL Server is available in multiple versions, typically identified by release year, and versions are subdivided into editions to distinguish between product functionality. Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning.

Microsoft SQL Server

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.