Dear SolarWinds,
When checking Microsoft licensing for Always On groups, I noticed that now there is a new budget challenge.
Currently, NTA requires additional (second) SQL database, which requires additional costs for SQL HA functionality.
We have two options for Always On:
1. Always On Availability Groups requires SQL Enterprise Edition
2. Basic Availability Group (Always On Failover Clustering) is supported in SQL Standard Edition
Unfortunately SQL Standard Edition only supports one database for above feature.
This means that even with small NPM + NTA installations, customers with AlwaysOn SQL requirement, will need to purchase Enterprise Edition.
Article from Microsoft:
"Support for one availability database."
Basic Availability Groups (Always On Availability Groups) | Microsoft Docs
The difference in price can be even between 7.000$ and 27.000$ per server, depending on discounts or bundles with hardware.
Would it be possible to use one database for NPM as well as NTA? If the environment is not too big with not too many flows per seconds, I think the performance would be fine.
If I missed something (as Microsoft licensing is the most complex of all known IT products), please correct me. Thanks 
Kind regards,
Marcin Kazmierczak.
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