Virtual SQL Guest servers Licensing Data Center Server?

how we license Virtual SQL Guest servers, is that through Data Center Server that we install on the ESX Host/clusters?

Hi Marissa,
>>how we license Virtual SQL Guest servers, is that through Data Center Server that we install on the ESX Host/clusters
As for windows server OS (I assume it is server 2012) running on VMWare hypervisor please refer to following statement :
For SQL licensing please refer to following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/sql2014.aspx#tab=1
But I would strongly suggest you to contact Microsoft Activation Center for further accurate assistance :
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/existing-customers/activation-centers.aspx
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