SQL Server Compliance
Simplified & Protected.
Stay in sync with VMware cluster changes and AlwaysOn replicas. Combine SQL Server internal metadata with real-time vCenter topologies to track VM migrations and enforce correct core-factor licensing.
Defending Against the SQL Server "Passive Replica" Audit Trap
During software audits, Microsoft and partners frequently target secondary failover replicas in AlwaysOn Availability Groups. While passive replicas can sometimes be run without separate licenses under active Software Assurance or Subscription terms, this benefit has strict limitations.
If a secondary replica is configured to allow read-only connections (e.g., for reporting), or if it executes administrative workloads like backups or DBCC consistency checks, it is no longer considered passive and must be fully licensed. Licencify scans your system views in real-time, providing immediate visibility into replica configurations to prove compliance.
Are you exposed to point-in-time drift?
Even if your virtualization cluster is isolated today, a temporary DRS load-balancing event or vMotion migration can move a SQL Server VM to an unlicensed physical host. Auditors scan history logs to catch these short-term movements, demanding retroactive licensing for all physical cores of the destination host.
How Licencify Computes Your SQL Server Position
Our containerized local gateway acts as a secure analytics engine, establishing a continuous bridge between your database parameters and virtualization clusters.
Query SQL Parameters
"Read-Only Metadata Query"
Licencify connects to your SQL Server instances in read-only mode, extracting configuration details, installed options, active core counts, and AlwaysOn replica properties (such as whether secondary replicas are set to read-only or run utility workloads).
Extract vCenter Topology
"Virtualization Mapping"
We query your VMware vCenter Servers to identify the host mapping of the database VMs. The gateway extracts physical hardware metrics (socket count, physical core densities) and vSphere cluster groupings, mapping out the physical host footprints.
Calculate & Reconcile
"Core-Factor Reconciliation"
The engine correlates the active database features and virtualization groupings with physical processor cores. It automatically applies Microsoft core factor calculation rules, and cross-checks active cores to establish your live Effective License Position (ELP).
Continuous DRS & AlwaysOn Tracking
Traditional compliance reviews are done once a year, missing intermediate hardware changes or parameter drift. Licencify continuously monitors VMware vMotion history, tracking virtual machine migrations across hosts. If a database VM moves to an unlicensed cluster host, or an AlwaysOn Availability Group replica changes its read mode, you are alerted immediately, giving you time to adjust before it turns into an audit liability.
Affinity Rule Checks
Licencify automatically monitors VMware VM-Host Affinity Rules, ensuring your VM containment policies are actively applied and verified by the system.
Database-safe, Read-Only Scans
We know DBA guidelines are strict. Licencify connects remotely and runs in **SELECT-only mode** over standard TCP/IP. It does not load binary scripts onto your database servers, does not lock dictionary tables, and operates with less than microsecond execution times per instance. You can inspect and review every single SQL query before deploying our containerized gateway.
Security-Desk Approved
The local container scrubs sensitive database user data, table values, and schema structures. Only raw core-factor metrics leave your network perimeter.
Ready to verify your SQL Server landscape?
Schedule a technical callback to review SQL statements or apply for an agreed local pilot test.