Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard license

Livense makes maintenance so much easier. The Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard license has Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard license heavily used databases which I would like to separate into 2 instances and then create a licende for all the others. Hi Brent, Need input on this scenario: I am using enterprise licensing. More and more business critical workloads find their way to the Software Defined Data Center OEM Technical Suite X6 a virtual workload. Prevent data breaches Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard license hacks within your company. To use the Core model in a virtual environment all the virtual CPUs in the virtual machines that are running instances of SQL Server software must be licensed. However when I called back with my manager we were given a different answer by a different rep. What product editions will be offered with SQL Server ? Step-Ups between licensing models are not allowed. Do we need to buy SA for 20 cores, to run the passive node — for fail-over clustering? That would be great, I will contact you on my next project but unfortunately the server I am prepping needs to be ready by Thursday morning so my time is very limited. If the machine is powered-down in the DR data center, it does not need to be licensed but how are you supposed to have up-to-date DR databases if the backup server is off??Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard license