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It's been a while and you would need to confirm this elsewhere, but I dealt with with SQL 2012 Enterprise licensing when the product first came out and what I recall is that if we had enough licenses to cover all of the physical cores on the VM host then we could run multiple VMs on it as needed. Otherwise the VMs had to be licensed. I've not worked with 2012 Standard.
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is that if we had enough licenses to cover all of the physical cores on the VM host then we could run multiple VMs on it as needed. Otherwise the VMs had to be licensed. I've not worked with 2012 Standard. 
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As far I recall it was 4 Enterprise licenses for physical CPU so if you want to spend it with a Standard Edition you are just burning one Enterprise license.
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It's too far back in Internet time for me to remember clearly, but it seems like we needed one Enterprise license per two cores. I can't believe that was only a few years ago -- it feels like decades.
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Hi,<br />
I have a physical 2012 R2 server with one VM running on it currently (2012 R2 Domain Controller), i want to add a second VM, this one will be 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2012 for running the accounting program Exchequer.<br />
The server has 64Gb of ram so there should be more than enough according to the spec requirements. I have a couple of questions, firstly, please can I confirm that licensing for the 2nd 2012 R2 OS is covered by the original host license (as long as no added services are running on the host)? Secondly, are there any special considerations for running SQL on a VM or is it just a case of installing as if it were a stand alone physical server?<br />
Many thanks<br />
Andrew
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Hi,
I have a physical 2012 R2 server with one VM running on it currently (2012 R2 Domain Controller), i want to add a second VM, this one will be 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2012 for running the accounting program Exchequer.
The server has 64Gb of ram so there should be more than enough according to the spec requirements. I have a couple of questions, firstly, please can I confirm that licensing for the 2nd 2012 R2 OS is covered by the original host license (as long as no added services are running on the host)? Secondly, are there any special considerations for running SQL on a VM or is it just a case of installing as if it were a stand alone physical server?
Many thanks
Andrew

SQL on 2012 VM

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

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.