SQL Server Licensing in a VMware vSphere Cluster
- by Helvick
If I have SQL Server 2008 instances running in virtual machines on a VMware vSphere cluster with vMotion\DRS enabled so that the VM's can (potentially) run on any one of the physical servers in the cluster what precisely are the license requirements?
For example assume that I have 4 physical ESX Hosts with dual physical CPU's and 3 separate single…