1. My understanding of the licencing is that Microsoft supplies 1x additional replica for free. If my client wants to save money, then adding an extra replica for reporting isnt going to save him much. Good performance for reports. Correct me if i am wrong on this.
--Microsoft allows as many secondaries as you want as long as they are truly passive. No reporting, no backups = no license on passive nodes
--Microsoft allows as many secondaries as you want as long as they are truly passive. No reporting, no backups = no license on passive nodes
Dont worry about asking questions to third parties, I am sure you have paid them so I would get as much info as possible from them