GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question
A SaaS provider operates 40 on-premises virtual machines that each run Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition on Windows Server. All SQL Server licenses include active Software Assurance (SA) that is prepaid through 2026. The company wants to rehost the workload to Google Cloud within three months. Finance insists on avoiding any additional SQL Server licensing costs, and the operations team must preserve existing Always On Availability Group high-availability topology while continuing to manage the guest operating systems. Which migration approach best satisfies these technical and financial requirements?
Deploy SQL Server Enterprise Edition on Compute Engine sole-tenant nodes to reuse the licenses and avoid Windows Server costs.
Containerize each SQL Server instance and run them on Google Kubernetes Engine using Google-provided SQL Server container images with pay-as-you-go licensing.
Deploy SQL Server Enterprise Edition on Compute Engine VMs in a shared-host environment using Google-provided Windows Server images, and apply License Mobility through SA to reuse the existing SQL Server licenses.
Migrate the databases to Cloud SQL for SQL Server and use Google's license-included pricing model.
Microsoft's License Mobility through Software Assurance lets customers reassign eligible application-server licenses-such as SQL Server Enterprise Edition-to Authorized Mobility Partners, including Google Cloud, on multitenant infrastructure. Windows Server itself is not eligible for License Mobility, so the customer will use Google-provided Windows Server images and pay the associated per-second OS license fee. Deploying Compute Engine virtual machines in a standard (shared-host) environment and applying License Mobility reuses the existing SQL Server licenses, avoids double payment for SQL, retains full OS-level control, and supports Always On Availability Groups. Options that rely on Cloud SQL or Google-provided SQL Server images include new SQL licensing charges, while moving to sole-tenant nodes is unnecessary and would increase infrastructure cost.
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