Azure Hybrid Benefit SQL Server core ratios
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- Kind
- Cloud / BYOL
- Statement
- PT-AZ table (no Server+CAL to vCore conversion is published): SQL Server Enterprise (Core) → Azure SQL MI/DB General Purpose, Azure Arc MI General Purpose, SSIS Standard, SQL Standard VMs = 1 Core License : 4 vCores/vCPUs; Enterprise Core → MI/DB Business Critical, Azure Arc MI Business Critical, SSIS Enterprise, SQL Enterprise VMs = 1 Core License : 1 vCore/vCPU. SQL Server Standard (Core) → MI/DB General Purpose, Azure Arc MI General Purpose, SSIS Standard, SQL Standard VMs = 1 Core License : 1 vCore/vCPU; Standard Core → MI/DB Business Critical, Azure Arc MI Business Critical, SSIS Enterprise, SQL Enterprise VMs = 4 Core Licenses : 1 vCore/vCPU. Footnote 1: “Azure Hybrid Benefit is not available in the serverless compute tier of Azure SQL Database.” Footnote 2: “Subject to a minimum of four Core Licenses per Virtual Machine.” Alternatively, allocate enough SQL Server Enterprise core licenses to cover all Physical Cores on an Azure Dedicated Host and run unlimited Virtual Machines on that host.
- Applies when
- Using Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server in Customer’s own Microsoft Azure account, for the Azure data services named in the PT table.
- Applies to
- SQL Server Enterprise (Core) and Standard (Core) licenses with SA/subscription used for named Azure data services under Azure Hybrid Benefit. No Server/CAL→vCore mapping is printed.
- Aliases
- AHB SQL ratios; 1:4 EE to GP; AHB not serverless
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