Help me purchase an MSSQL license for our SQL cluster, which has two nodes, each with 8 CPUs. Do I need to purchase 16 core licenses, or is 8 core enough?

Anonymous
2025-01-30T14:26:05+00:00

We are having 2node cluster in VMWare environment.

Windows Server Devices and deployment Licensing and activation

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-31T06:02:28+00:00

    Hello

    Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community forum.

    Based on the description, I understand your question is related to the SQL Server.

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