在另一台Windows VM上使用来自一个SQL Azure VM的SQL安装文件是否有任何挑战？

Question

I have a customer who has created only Windows VM from Azure Gallery and wants me to install SQL in it. Is it ok to use SQL Setup file from another Azure VM on this VM? If yes, then it makes no sense as people can now ask for Windows VM instead of SQL VM which are more expensive and get around it by using SQL setup file from another SQL Azure VM.

Answer 1

Where you get the install bits isn't as important as the licensing model. There are two licensing models for a virtual machine (VM) hosting SQL Server - pay-as-you-go, and bring your own license (BYOL). And now, using either PowerShell or Azure CLI, you can modify which licensing model your SQL Server VM uses.

Full documentation is here .