Re: Eyes Wide Open
"Microsoft take a similar approach to licencing SQL Server. They only recognize hyper-V as a Virtualization environment"
Completely untrue. Microsoft recognise any hypervisor solution that can control resources to limit the CPUs / cores in use by SQL servers. There is no Hyper-v only policy for that.
In fact the rules don't even mention Hyper-v:
https://download.microsoft.com/download/3/d/4/3d42bdc2-6725-4b29-b75a-a5b04179958b/microsoftservervirtualization_licensemobility_vlbrief.pdf
Biting the hand that feeds IT
