Is there a faq on fail-over cluster licencing using win2k8 r2 and sql server
2k8?

Here is the licensing overview from Microsoft. It includes the basic rules
for failover clustering under the heading "
PASSIVE SERVERS / FAILOVER SUPPORT"
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...w%20final.docx

Also, Tony Rogerson on the subject.
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyro...uirements.aspx

RLF

"Cypher" <cypher (AT) cypher (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks a lot. So basically for an 2 node active/passive cluster with
identical servers, on needs:
2 x Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise licenses
and
1 x SQL Server Standard or Enterprise License.


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"Russell Fields" <russellfields (AT) nomail (DOT) com> wrote

I believe that is correct. Here is the note on Windows 2008 HPC:
http://www.microsoft.com/hpc/en/us/p...licensing.aspx

RLF

"Cypher" <cypher (AT) cypher (DOT) com> wrote