
UNCOVERING THE COMPLEXITY OF THE MICROSOFT SPLA PROGRAM

We are hosting several client-facing applications from inside our datacenter. We’ve been exploring our license options via SPLA, and have a question about vMotion / balancing VMs that I can’t find a great answer to. Assume this:
- Windows is licensed at the physical host level via Windows Datacenter (2016 version)
- We’re looking at licensing our SQL Server VMs using the SQL Standard Core license per VM, at least 4 cores per VM.
The question comes when we need to vMotion a VM hosting SQL. Does the 4 cores worth of SQL licenses “travel” with the VM, so the VM can run on a separate host as normal, assuming it only runs on one host at a time? Or are we limited to the 90 day reassignment period that comes with physical hosts? I’ve confirmed our users aren’t making use of Enterprise features, so that’s not a concern. I just don’t want to shoot us in the foot by restricting vMotion.
Thanks!
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