Three enhanced disaster
recovery benefits of SQL Server
A
couple of months back, Microsoft introduced the first release candidate refresh
for SQL Server 2019, with a focus on Big Data Clusters. Then, in September, the
tech giant unveiled the monthly update for cross-platform data management tool
Azure Data Studio, which works with SQL Server.
Today,
SQL Server is getting enhanced Software Assurance benefits, enabling customers
to engage in high-availability disaster recovery scenarios with ease. Microsoft
believes this helps them ensure business continuity, regardless of failover
events that may occur.
Starting
November 1, customers with SQL Server licenses that include Software Assurance
will be able to utilize three enhanced benefits. These include:
Failover
servers for high availability – Allows customers to install and run passive SQL
Server instances in a separate operating system environment (OSE) or server for
high availability on-premises in anticipation of a failover event. Today,
Software Assurance patrons have one free passive example for either high
availability or DR
Failover
servers for disaster recovery (NEW) – Allows customers to install and run
passive SQL Server instances in a separate OSE or server on-premises for
disaster recovery in anticipation of a failover event
Failover
servers for disaster recovery in Azure (NEW) – Allows customers to install and
run passive SQL Server instances in a separate OSE or server for disaster
recovery in Azure in anticipation of a failover event
Using
these, hybrid disaster recovery plans in SQL Server can be implemented using
features like Always on Availability Groups without having to pay for
additional licensing costs for the passive replicas. This change can be better
observed through the image shown above. As an example, previously, 12 cores of
the SQL Server running on Azure Virtual Machine would need to have been
licensed, aside from the 12 already-licensed on-premise cores. This additional
licensing won't be required now. The same goes for passive secondary replicas
for disaster recovery being utilized alongside passive secondary
high-availability and primary on-premise cores; only the primary ones will need
to be licensed now.
Aside
from the benefits, passive replicas also allow for other operations including
database consistency checks, log backups, full backups, and the ability to
monitor resource usage data. The enhanced benefits will be available for all
currently supported releases of SQL Server that are supported by Microsoft. The
next refresh of Microsoft's Licensing Terms will
include these benefits.
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