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"Important: The Software Assurance 24x7 Problem Resolution Support benefit is retired as of February 1, 2023. Starting on February 1, 2023, Software Assurance incidents won’t be usable or allocated." (1)
BUT... see the additional benefits for SCE customers
Benefits
Benefits
Fail-Over Servers for HA/DR
Fail-Over Servers for HA/DR
Can be...
Can use secondaries for...
Cannot use secondaries for...
Any secondary can have the same number or less cores than the Primary, but NOT more. You could, in theory, license the Primary for more cores than it has in order to get around this situation.
HA is assumed to be "sync" and DR is assumed to be "async" with maximum of 1 HA and 1 DR on-prem plus 1 DR in Azure. Any additional replicas will need the same number of core licenses as the Primary.
Note that this benefit only applies to the SQL Licensing. i.e. all the other costs of running a database server in Azure stilll apply. (Although the Azure Hybrid Benefit should mean that's at a reduced rate).
- AlwaysOn Availability Group
- AlwaysOn Failover Cluster (FCI)
- Log Shipping
- I believe DR could be VMware SRM.
- SE or EE
- Any version (if covered by SA).
- Bare-metal, VM, Container
Can use secondaries for...
- Backup
- Maintenance (CheckDB)
- Basic Monitoring
- DR Tests
Cannot use secondaries for...
- Reads
- Writes
Any secondary can have the same number or less cores than the Primary, but NOT more. You could, in theory, license the Primary for more cores than it has in order to get around this situation.
HA is assumed to be "sync" and DR is assumed to be "async" with maximum of 1 HA and 1 DR on-prem plus 1 DR in Azure. Any additional replicas will need the same number of core licenses as the Primary.
Note that this benefit only applies to the SQL Licensing. i.e. all the other costs of running a database server in Azure stilll apply. (Although the Azure Hybrid Benefit should mean that's at a reduced rate).
Unlimited Virtualisation
The same model also applies to ContainersUnlimited Virtualisation
License Mobility
License Mobility
With License Mobility through Software Assurance, you can deploy certain server application licenses purchased under your Volume Licensing agreement in an Authorized Mobility Partner’s datacenter. (2)
License Mobility through Software Assurance allows you to move SQL Server licenses between servers within the same server farm without waiting 90 days.
Server farm refers to a group of servers under common administrative control (i.e. same legal entity, same IT operation), in up to two data centers in time zones that are no more than four hours apart, that share resources and are managed as a single logical unit.
Bibliography
Bibliography
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/licensing-programs/software-assurance-default?activetab=software-assurance-default-pivot%3aprimaryr3https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/licensing-programs/software-assurance-by-product?activetab=software-assurance-by-product-pivot%3aprimaryr2https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/Licensing/licensing-programs/software-assurance-by-benefits(1) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-software-assurance-support-incident-submission-74a9a148-9a75-ecc8-4420-14191e634d65http://www.picacommunications.com/resources/SLA_SAbenefitsList.pdf
License Mobility(2) https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/licensing/licensing-programs/software-assurance-license-mobility?rtc=1
License Mobility(2) https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/licensing/licensing-programs/software-assurance-license-mobility?rtc=1
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