Hello VM Community ,
I stumbled across the Microsoft document and it looks like they are changing the SQL licensing again with VMware.
From what I am understanding is any SQL server editions 2014 and above will now start counting the differently between VCPUs and vCores. I can relate to Microsoft on doing this for the physical presence but IMO physical SQL tier is in the minority overall in the IT world today. In VMware no more can we set the vCPU count as needed for each VM . This is a very convenient option as we use the vCPU hot plug option in all our VMs and add memory as needed . However you cannot adjust the vCores on the fly using the hot plug option.
Anyone experience this problem with their high tier SQL environments having too many vcpus vs cores? see table below for clarification. This seems to only affect Standard editions not Enterprise.
Any thoughts on this change ?
Compute Capacity Limits by Edition of SQL Server
| SQL Server Edition | Maximum Compute Capacity Used by a Single Instance (SQL ServerDatabase Engine) | Maximum Compute Capacity Used by a Single Instance (AS, RS) |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Edition: Core-based Licensing1 | Operating system maximum | Operating system maximum |
| Developer | Operating system maximum | Operating system maximum |
| Evaluation | Operating system maximum | Operating system maximum |
| Business Intelligence | Limited to lesser of 4 Sockets or 16 cores | Operating system maximum |
| Standard | Limited to lesser of 4 Sockets or 16 cores | Limited to lesser of 4 Sockets or 16 cores |
| Web | Limited to lesser of 4 Sockets or 16 cores | Limited to lesser of 4 Sockets or 16 cores |
| Express | Limited to lesser of 1 Socket or 4 cores | Limited to lesser of 1 Socket or 4 cores |
| Express with Tools | Limited to lesser of 1 Socket or 4 cores | Limited to lesser of 1 Socket or 4 cores |
| Express with Advanced Services | Limited to lesser of 1 Socket or 4 cores | Limited to lesser of 1 Socket or 4 cores |