Confuesd over which and how many licences I need

[mogwai]

Confused over which and how many licences I need

I have just had the spec back for the servers that will be required to run the new version of the Coda Finance software we use. I have listed the specs that we have been sent, we would need two of each as we would have a set for live and a set for dev.

We have bought 6 x Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard and 2 x SQL Server 2008 R2 x64 Standard. This is where I am now confused as to whether we need Enterprise editions instead on the App and Db servers due to the 8 cores.

We would be running these in VMWare Vsphere virtual machines. So I am not sure how for example 8 virtual cores relates to the number of processors that the given version of Windows and SQL can handle.

Can anyone help to clarify the situation?


Web Server:
1x Quad Core Xeon
4 Gb Ram

App Server:
2 x Quad Core Xeons
12 Gb Ram

Database Server:
2 x Quad Core Xeons
16 Gb Ram

 

[sidethink]

Its highly likely that you should be running Enterprise, Per Processor licensing. You need to take into consideration whether you plan to VMotion these instances around (Reassignment in MS terms).

The document here explains it pretty well:

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/get-sql-server/how-to-buy.aspx