Is missing SQL Server Resource Provider considered as terms violation?

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Is missing SQL Server Resource Provider considered as terms violation?

Milan 66

Is SQL Server Resource Provider for AZ VM need to be deployed to every AZ VM where is running SQL Server? When I´m saying need I mean if there is some Microsoft terms about this for example: You can´t run SQL Server on AZ VM without SQL Server Resource Provider. In another words: If I will not deploy SQL Server Resource Provider to my AZ VM where is SQL Server running, is this considered as terms violation?

prmanhas-MSFT 17,976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2020-08-07T09:00:15.117+00:00

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prmanhas-MSFT 17,976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2020-08-07T09:00:15.117+00:00

@Milan Can you please confirm if you need any further help on the issue.

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Vaibhav Chaudhari 39,016 Volunteer Moderator

In my opinion, it's not violating policy if SQL VM Provider is not registered.

As per the document, it looks like if you have self-installed SQL in Azure VM it's good to have SQL VM provider registered as it provides added feature benefits in administration - sql-vm-resource-provider-register

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Milan 66 Reputation points

2020-07-21T12:49:54.57+00:00

Yes i agree it "looks like". But sometimes from documentation I´ve got feeling that this is not optional thing and it need to be deployed.

For example here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/virtual-machines/windows/sql-vm-resource-provider-register?tabs=azure-cli%2Cbash
Registering with the SQL VM resource provider is required only if the VM was not provisioned from the SQL Server images in Azure Marketplace and SQL Server was self-installed.