SQL Server 2016 is now in review! The newest version promises to deliver new real-time, built-in advanced analytics, advanced security technology, hybrid cloud scenarios as well as amazing rich visualizations on mobile devices.
There are many great reasons to move to SQL 2016, however if you are still working on SQL Server 2005 you may have another good motivator - the end-of-life clock of SQL 2005 is ticking down and support is about to end April 12, 2016.
In this deck we review the significant licensing changes introduced with SQL 2012. If our experience as Microsoft's Gold Certified Member has taught us anything - it is one thing. During migrations many of our clients get outright lost when trying to figure out the number of licenses they have or need. This often leads to under-deployment, and subsequently serious compliance issues with Microsoft. And yes, in some cases over-deployment means big savings back to your department.
2. Our Speakers
Keith Groom – Host
Director Microsoft Solution Group
Tadd Axon
Microsoft
Practice Lead
Krystal Kennedy
Microsoft Solution
Sales Specialist
Rick Talbot
Sr. Asset Management
Consultant
3. Agenda
SQL Roadmap – 2005 End of Support & 2016 Preview
Key Licensing Considerations
Assessing Your Environment
New SQL Deployment Options
Q & A
4. Agenda
SQL Roadmap – 2005 End of Support & 2016 Preview
Key Licensing Considerations
Assessing Your Environment
New SQL Deployment Options
Q & A
5. SQL Server Roadmap
SQL 2008
No New Features
No Non-Security hotfixes
No Support (Phone, Email)
SQL 2005
…
No Security Updates
6. There will be no access to critical security updates, opening the
potential for business interruptions
Maintaining legacy servers, firewalls, intrusion systems, etc.
gets expensive quickly
As support ends, your organization will likely fail
to meet regulatory standards compliance
What does end of extended support mean?
Assess
Your
Impact!
8. Agenda
SQL Roadmap – 2005 End of Support & 2016 Preview
Key Licensing Considerations
Assessing Your Environment
New SQL Deployment Options
Q & A
9. Server Infrastructure: On-Premise
Server + Cal Per Core
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Enterprise
Standard
Business Intelligence
SQL Server 2014 Licensing Options
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Standard: Basic database, reporting
and analytic capabilities
Enterprise: For mission critical
applications and large scale data
warehousing
Business Intelligence: for premium
corporate and self-service BI
10. Server Infrastructure: On-Premise
Licensing Model Per Core:
SQL Server Enterprise and Standard
Determining the number of licenses required
for SQL Server Enterprise and Standard
running in the physical OSE:
May be licensed based on all they physical
cores on the server.
The number of licenses required equals the
number of physical cores on the server
(minimum of 4).
Licenses of SQL core are sold in pairs.
14. Agenda
SQL Roadmap – 2005 End of Support & 2016 Preview
Key Licensing Considerations
Assessing Your Environment
New SQL Deployment Options
Q & A
15. A brief introduction…
• Began: 2004
• Consultants: 15 full-time
• Offerings: Microsoft, Adobe, SaaS, Storage,
Virtualization, Converged Infrastructure
• Delivered 1200+ assessments last year
16. SQL TechCheck Overview
• Started in 2011 to help with the Processor to
Core licensing change.
• Help you move toward proactive and planned
expenditures – and honor MS licensing rules.
17. SQL TechCheck Overview
• Purpose
• To proactively:
• understand your current SQL licensing state
• discover ways to optimize existing licensing
• Process
• Collect inventory and performance data
• Workshop the data with you
• Payoff
• Actionable output that you can use right away
19. SQL TechCheck Overview
• You can expect…
• Current compliance today
• Possible improvements through:
• P2V and V2V consolidation
• Maximize license rights
• Walking through licensing ‘gotchas’
• Utilizing Azure where appropriate
• Cost savings estimate.
21. SQL TechCheck Overview
• Case Study
• Who: A west-coast healthcare provider with a
looming renewal.
• The Issues: Many physical and virtual servers.
• The outcome: $1.5M saved over three years by
changing how licenses are used and consolidating
P2V and V2V. Now license compliant at a lower cost.
22. Agenda
SQL Roadmap – 2005 End of Support & 2016 Preview
Key Licensing Considerations
Assessing Your Environment
New SQL Deployment Options
Q & A
23. Optimize your data platform investments
Shared
Lower cost
Dedicated
Higher cost
Higher administration Lower administration
Hybrid Cloud
Physical
SQL Server
Physical Machine (raw iron)
SQL
IaaS
SQL Server in Azure VM
Virtualizes Machines
SQL
Virtual
SQL Server Private Cloud
Virtualized Machine + Appliance
Paas & SaaS
Azure SQL Database
Virtualized Database
SQL
• Upgrade scenarios
• Achieve mission-critical
performance on-
premises
• Virtualize and
consolidate with
Windows Server
• Reduce TCO and
increase availability with
Azure VMs
• Easy on-ramp to cloud
for web applications
with Azure SQL
Database
24. SQL Deployment Options
Hybrid DR
Deploy a node of an
Always on Availability
Group on an Azure VM
Reduce on premise
footprint
Hedge against
equipment/facility issues
Stretch Database
Offload cold records to
SQL in Azure
Reduce on premise
storage footprint
Reduce backup window
for live data
Migration to PaaS
Integrated capability to
migrate from on
premise SQL Server to
Azure SQL as a Service
25. Agenda
SQL Roadmap – 2005 End of Support & 2016 Preview
Key Licensing Considerations
Assessing Your Environment
New SQL Deployment Options
Q & A
26. Q & A
Schedule SQL TechCheck Discovery Call
Review SQL licensing position - if moving from Per Proc to Per Core
What SQL deployment scenario is best today and tomorrow?
Contact your Softchoice Account Manager
Notes de l'éditeur
End of support means:
No security updates
Many critical updates were released SQL Server 2005 under Support. No updates will be developed or released after end of extended support.
Higher maintenance costs
Staying put will cost more in the end. Maintenance costs for aging hardware will also increase. Added costs will be incurred for intrusion detection systems, more advanced firewalls, network segmentation, and so on—simply to isolate SQL Server 2005 databases.
Compliance Concerns
Lack of compliance with various standards and regulations can be devastating. This may include various regulatory and industry standards for which compliance can no longer be achieved. For example, lack of compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards might mean companies such as Visa and MasterCard will no longer do business with you. Or, the new cost of doing business will include paying catastrophic penalties and astronomically high transaction fees.
Many applications will also cease to be supported, once the database system they are running on is unsupported.
Now is the time to act
You must start planning migration now.
Servers may still be running SQL Server 2005 for a number of reasons. You can use these reasons as a discussion point:
Perceived challenges of upgrading applications
Presence of custom and legacy applications
Budget and resource constraints
“It still works”
There are 3 editions of SQL server; Standard BI, and Enterprise.
SQL Standard can be licensed by server/CAL or by core.
SQL BI is licensed by Server/CAL
SQL Enterprise is licensed by core.
SQL is now licensed by core with a minimum of 4 cores per processor. If a server has 2 cores it must be licensed for 4 cores. If a server has 6 cores then 6 cores licenses. Each SQL license is for 2 cores.
When it comes to modernizing your data platform, Microsoft offers a unique level of flexibility as you migrate from older databases. There are a number of options that span from updating on your existing servers to running your database as a service in the cloud. Here are three great options to consider:
With Windows Server 2012 R2, you can virtualize your server and run SQL Server 2014 in this virtualized environment. One of the great benefits of virtualization is that you can consolidate—that is, running multiple applications or workloads on the same server, while each maintains it’s own separate environment.
You can also host your SQL Server database in the cloud by moving it into a Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine. Because it’s hosted in the cloud, you can leverage the high availability of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure while reducing capital expense for purchasing your own hardware and related IT costs.
If you have web applications, another great option is to use Microsoft Azure SQL Database, which is a database-as-a-service in the cloud. With this option, you get the benefits of a cloud infrastructure with enterprise grade security and scale, high availability, superior performance, and near-zero maintenance.
Customers are realizing significant business benefits by modernizing the data platform with SQL Server 2014 and Microsoft Azure. It provides a quick on ramp to the cloud, and the ability to reduce CAPEX and OPEX. According to a Forrester TEI study, businesses achieved a 9.5 month payback when migrating to SQL Server 2014. Forrester also found that business earned an ROI of 349% by migrating to Microsoft Azure.
http://migrationplanningassistant.azurewebsites.net/